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date = "2017-02-23T16:33:00+00:00"
discipline = "Soprano"
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publishDate = "2017-02-23T16:33:00+00:00"
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slug = "karin-wolverton"
title = "Karin Wolverton"
website = "http://karinwolverton.com/biography"
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Soprano Karin Wolverton has been described by *Opera News* as “a young soprano to watch” having “a lovely warm tone, easy agility and winning musicality”. Ms. Wolverton took on the challenging role of Anna Sørensen in the 2011 world premiere of Kevin Puts’ Pulitzer Prize winning opera *Silent Night* with the Minnesota Opera for which WQXR acclaimed “. . . soprano Karin Wolverton, whose diamond-edged soprano shone in a sublime Act I “Dona Nobis Pacem” during mass, and sliced through the top notes of a second-act aria full of emotional turbulence as she realizes the beauty of her art is no match for the horrors of war.” Continuing her passionate involvement in new works, Ms. Wolverton will return to Arizona Opera in the 2016-2017 season for the world premiere of *Riders of the Purple Sage* by Craig Bohmler. Additionally, she will return to Minnesota Opera as Freia in *Das Rheingold*,  the Jacksonville Symphony as the Mother in *Hansel and Gretel*, and will debut with Opera Santa Barbara as Magda in *La rondine*.
 
The 2015-2016 season saw her return to Tulsa Opera as Mimi in *La bohème* and debuts with Arizona Opera as Micäela in *Carmen*, the South Dakota Symphony for another *La bohème*, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and Angels & Demons Entertainment as the Countess in *Le nozze di Figaro*. Her 2014-2015 season included Fiordiligi in Utah Opera’s *Così fan tutte*, her debut with Austin Lyric Opera as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, the Mother in *Amahl and the Night Visitors* with the Minnesota Orchestra, and singing *Shepherd on the Rock* and Brad Mehldau’s *The Book of Hours* with the Joya! Concerts Series and Strauss’ *Four Last Songs* with the Hill House Players.
