Mezzo-soprano KATHERINE DOBBS is a native Houstonian and Second-Year Master’s Student in Vocal Performance under Dr. Robin Rice. Last school year she was Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Mrs. Jones in Street Scene, and won 2nd place in the Houston Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s Career Grant Competition. She earned a Bachelor of Music from DePauw University with minors in German & Italian, performing as Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Miss Todd in The Old Maid and the Thief, Die Knusperhexe in Hänsel und Gretel, and Madame de la Haltière in Cendrillon. Past summer engagements include Ježibaba in LAH-SOW’s Rusalka (2023), Studio Artist in the Music Academy of the West’s Lehrer Institute (2023), and Intermediate Artist in Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices (2020-2023). This spring she will be starring as Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia.