Kay Gucciardo is a soprano native to Brighton Michigan. She graduated with honors in 2021 with a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University under the tutelage of Theresa Kubiak and Patricia Havranek. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Voice Performance from Louisiana State University under Sandra Moon.

At LSU, Kay has been active within the student chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, performing the roles of Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica. Other credits from LSU Opera Theater include First Spirit in Massenet’s Cendrillon, as well as scenes as Norina from Don Pasquale and Zdenka from Strauss’s Arabella.

She has performed With Indiana University Opera Theater in the chorus of La Traviata as well as performing numerous scene credits with IU Opera Workshop including Cleopatra from Giulio Cesare, Laetitia from Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief and Elisetta in Cimarosa’s The Secret Marriage. Kay was also a member of Reimagining Opera for Kids at IU where she premiered the role of Mooch in Lauren Bernofsky’s Mooch the Magnificent, an opera for children.

Outside of academia Kay participated as a young artist with the International Performing Arts Institute in Fairhope, AL where she can credit masterclasses with artists such as renowned bass- baritone Greer Grimsley. She has also made her professional chorus debut in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with Opera Louisiane’s 2022-2023 season including Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors and Les contes d’Hoffmann.