In the 2025–2026 season, Ms. O’Mara will return to the Metropolitan Opera for Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Magic Flute (First Lady). She will also return to Teatro alla Scala for Die Walküre (Helmwige) and debut with Seattle Opera in Carmen (Micaëla) conducted by Ludovic Morlot. Future seasons include debuts with The Santa Fe Opera and the Barcelona Symphony, as well as a return to LA Opera.

In the 2024-2025 season, Ms. O’Mara made debuts at Teatro alla Scala in Die Walküre (Helmwige), The Metropolitan Opera in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Berta), and San Diego Opera in La bohème (Mimì). She was also seen on the concert stage with the LA Philharmonic in excerpts from Carmen conducted by Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl.

She made her LA Opera debut in the fall of 2023 in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Berta) and was also seen in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg (Erste Zofe) conducted by James Conlon. In the summer of 2024, she was a Gaddes Festival Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where she made her OTSL debut in Galileo Galilei (Duchess Christina) by Philip Glass.

Kathleen won a Career Grant Award from the Sullivan Foundation in 2023 and was a 2022 winner of the Bizet Award at the Orpheus Vocal Competition. She has participated in programs including the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Palm Beach Opera’s Apprentice Program, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy, CoOPERAtive, and Music Academy of the West. She received a Masters in Music from the Juilliard School, a Bachelors of Music from Westminster Choir College, and is a native of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

SEPTEMBER 2025