In the 2024-25 season, Kara was featured as a Resident Artist with Minnesota Opera, debuting the roles of Stephano and Rosina. In Spring 2024, she earned a Master of Musical Arts degree at Yale University, where she studied with Adriana Zabala and was heard as Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Isolier (Le comte Ory), and Anna 1 (Die sieben Todsünden), among others. In addition to joining the Yale Philarmonia twice as a soloist (under the baton of Maestro Peter Oundjian), Kara made a titular role and company debut with Salt Marsh Opera in L'enfant et les sortilèges.

As pandemic restrictions eased, Kara returned to Sarasota Opera as a Resident Artist, covering and singing one performance each of Dido & Aeneas (as Dido) and Rossini's one-act farce Il Signor Bruschino (as Marianna). Later that year, she made her West Coast debut with Pacific Opera Project as Hansel in Hansel & Gretel. In April 2022, she was home in Minneapolis debuting the role of Lucretia with An Opera Theatre.

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Kara was a Young Artist with Fargo-Moorhead Opera, debuting the roles of Dorabella and Mercédès with the company. Following this residency, she spent the summer covering Dorabella with Mill City Summer Opera and covering the title role in Offenbach's La belle Hélène with Lakes Area Music Festival. That fall, she returned to Fargo-Moorhead Opera to make her mainstage and role debut as Hansel. As a student at Drake University and the New England Conservatory of Music, Kara was heard in roles such as Mrs. Soames (Rorem's Our Town), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Madame de Croissy (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Grimgerde (Die Walküre), and Ottone (Agrippina).

A lover of art song, Kara enjoys programming lesser-heard and contemporary works with a focus on songs written by and about women. Past recitals have included repertoire by Montsalvatge, Debussy, Mahler, Hahn, Heggie, Margaret Bonds, Mel Bonis, Clara & Robert Schumann, Alaina Ferris, and Cheryl Frances-Hoad, among others. In Summer 2022, Kara partnered with longtime collaborator Carson Rose Schneider and Minnesota nonprofit organization, OOPS MN (Opera-Oriented Project Sponsorships), to create Ladies, Lyrics, & Lagers: a recital that was taken on tour to three popular Twin Cities breweries with the purpose of promoting song sets by two living women composers based in Minnesota, Linda Tutas Haugen and Edie Hill, and bringing well-sung art to a more relaxed, casual setting.

Kara also enjoys collaboration in choral and orchestral works, appearing as a soloist with the Oratorio Society of Minnesota, the Bach Roots Festival, the CBA Orchestra, the Minnesota Saints Chorale & Orchestra, the Drake Choir, and singing Alcibiades and Phaedrus in an unconducted performance of Erik Satie's Socrate with the New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra in Boston's historic Jordan Hall.

In the 2025-26 season, Kara embarks on a second season as a Resident Artist with Minnesota Opera. She will revisit the role of Dorabella, create the role of Jane in the world premiere of B.E. Boykin's My Name is Florence (as part of Minnesota Opera's New Works Initiative), and debut as Tigrana in a rare concert presentation of Puccini's Edgar. In addition to her Minnesota Opera assignments, Kara will make a company and role debut with Opera Tampa singing Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte. She will also join the Fox Valley and the Madison Symphony Orchestras in Wisconsin, debuting as a soloist in Verdi's Messa da Requiem and the Finale of Beethoven's Symphony No.9, respectively.