Kathryn Wright
Vocal Coach - Opera
Teaching Philosophy
A good coach is a facilitator, someone who helps a singer find their way to their best version of an aria or a role. Every singer is unique, every voice has it’s own fingerprint, and I try to guide a singer to an interpretation that brings out that uniqueness and lets them put a personal stamp on the music, so they can stand out as they should. As a coach I work a lot with the language as well as the music, since that’s where the composer started, and because if you’re not in control of the words and the sounds that make up the words, you won’t sing your best. Also, it’s been proven to me over and over that if you shape the phrases right and understand the music correctly you’ll also sing better and more easily. But in the end, I believe that every singer’s job, no matter on what level, is to take that hard won technique and all that talent and put it in the service of the music and the drama. My job is to help you get there.
Kathryn Wright recently retired as Head Coach of the Opera Dept at the University of Georgia, where she had taught for eleven years.
Previously, Ms. Wright freelanced extensively in New York and worked with various regional theaters in the US until she moved to Germany to work as a coach/prompter with several of the leading opera houses there. Her credentials include four years at the Oper der Stadt Köln under James Conlon, two years at the Semper Oper Dresden under Giuseppe Sinopoli, four years as a guest artist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, eight years as a guest artist at the Australian Opera, and eleven years at the Deutsche Oper Berlin under Christian Thielemann.
She and her husband have moved back to Berlin, where she maintains a coaching studio and enjoys living close to family, especially her two beautiful granddaughters.
