Katie Trigg Featured on WHYY's "On Stage at Curtis"

“Curtis is that jumping point, where I’ve left the country, and I’m in this whole new environment. I’m getting to work the most phenomenal people, with coaches from the Met Opera and people who have so much expertise in this thing that I’m really passionate about.” —Katie Trigg

Season 18 of WHYY’s acclaimed On Stage at Curtis series continues with a portrait of Katie Trigg. The mezzo-soprano from Hamilton, New Zealand, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2022 and studies in the opera program with Julia Faulkner as the Mitchell Family Fellow. Ms. Trigg studied as a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar at the University of Waikato under the tutelage of Stephanie Acraman. After completing her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Waikato with first-class honors, Ms. Trigg spent 2021 as a Dame Malvina Major Foundation Studio Artist with New Zealand Opera.

An alumna of New Zealand Opera School (2019, 2020, and 2021), Ms. Trigg was awarded the Dame Sister Mary Leo Scholarship in conjunction with the Sue and Guy Haddleton Emerging Artist Award in 2020 to assist in her overseas studies.

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In this episode of On Stage at Curtis, Ms. Trigg offers a sneak peek into her new adventures at the school, shares her performance of Tori Amos’s “Winter” at the piano, and discusses busking and growing up as a singer. The episode features clips of her performing “Werther qui m’aurait dit la place” from Jules Massenet’s Werther on the stage of Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She shares her excitement about being a young artist at the Wolf Trap Opera Company and finding the right repertoire for her voice as she prepares for auditions. Katie takes us behind the curtain of her first film opera and her journey away from home.

Photos of Katie Trigg by Nichole MCH Photography and Megan Goldsman Photography.