Biography
Soprano Kelly Cae Hogan returns to The Metropolitan Opera this season for Die Walküre under the baton of Lorin Maazel. Previous seasons at the Met have included Lohengrin, Jenufa, Kát’a Kabanová, American Tragedy, La Bohème, Tosca and Salome, and last season she toured Japan with the Met’s production of Die Walküre. Additionally last season she sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and the title role in Salome for Opera Company of North Carolina, and Leonora in Il Trovatore for Opera Tampa. This season Kelly makes her German debut as Abigaille in Nabucco for Theater Bremen, where she will return next season in the title role of Salome. This season she also sings Salome for Florentine Opera, Madama Butterfly for Eugene Opera, and Tosca in Sioux Falls.
Recently Ms. Hogan made her debut with The Polish National Opera as Salome under the baton of Jacek Kaspszyk. She also joined the company on tour singing both Salome and Violetta in La Traviata. As a leading soprano with New York City Opera, Ms. Hogan made her debut in the title role of The Merry Widow and returned for Don Giovanni and Die Tote Stadt. Her repertoire with Washington Opera includes her debut in Sly starring Jose Carreras, La Bohème, and Il Trovatore conducted by Placido Domingo. She also toured Japan with Washington Opera’s productions of Sly and Tosca.
Ms. Hogan has worked with companies throughout the U.S. including San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Cleveland Opera, Hawaii Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Utah Opera, Nashville Opera, Baltimore Opera, and Birmingham Opera, in repertoire such as Tosca, Traviata, Trovatore, Norma, Salome, La Bohème, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Susannah, Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, and Micaela in Carmen. Conductors she has sung with include Marco Armiliato, Phillipe Auguin, Jirí Belohlávek, Anton Coppola, Placido Domingo, Mark Flint, Heinz Fricke, Anton Guadagno, Ward Holmquist, Jacek Kaspszyk, Eugene Kohn, Christopher Larkin, James Levine and Julius Rudel.
In concert Ms. Hogan has performed Beethoven’s Ah, Perfido and Salome excerpts with the Syracuse Symphony conducted by Daniel Hege, Dvorák’s Te Deum with the Dallas Symphony, and Vivaldi’s Lauda Jerusalem and Beatus Vir with Trenton Symphony, as well as ‘pops’ concerts nationwide. Internationally she has sung concerts with the Romanian Philharmonic, Carmina Burana with Orquesta Nacional de Costa Rica, and Poulenc’s Stabat Mater with the Nice Philharmonique conducted by Jan Latham Koenig.
A native of Iowa, Ms. Hogan was a winner of the American Opera Auditions and a New York winner of the MacAllister Awards. As a winner of the Liederkranz competition she sang a debut concert in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and was also a year-2000 grant recipient from the Gerda Lissner Foundation. She and her husband make their home in Tribeca, NYC.