Kathryn Allyn

Kathryn Allyn’s current performance is Playing Hard To Get: Rare Gems and Hidden Treasures. Appearing at New York’s Metropolitan Room, she reviews the sadly out-of-print or all too rarely heard songs of Jo Stafford, Betty Hutton, Julia Lee and Billie Holliday. While she is most influenced by Alice Faye, Martha Tilton and Dinah Shore, she nevertheless turned, in her debut appearances at the Metropolitan Room, to the singer-songwriters of her childhood: Joni Mitchell, Don McLean, Randy Newman and James Taylor -- all beautifully re-imagined by pianist Sheldon Forrest and bassist Tom Hubbard -- in You Can Go Home Again: Songs My Father Taught Me. In 2010, Kathryn made her way back to her hometown of Junction City, Kansas and its newly renovated 1880-vintage C. L. Hoover Opera House for the house’s presentation of a season of native sons and daughters. Kathryn gave Two Steps Forward, One Look Back, Songs of the American West: The Kingston Trio, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson and Arlo Guthrie, arranged as jazz for piano and bass by Sheldon Forrest and Kansas State University professor of jazz, Gordon Lewis.

In operatic repertoire, Kathryn has appeared in leading roles New York City Opera, Opera Manhattan, Opera Orchestra New York, New York Chamber Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Anchorage Opera, Arizona Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Boheme Opera New Jersey, Cleveland Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, El Paso Opera, Florentine Opera, Kalamazoo Symphony, National Opera Touring Company, Opera Theatre Northern Virginia, Oswego Opera, Sarasota Opera, Syracuse Opera and Virginia Opera Association. Her roles have included the title roles in Carmen, Hansel und Gretel and Ariodante; as well as appearances as Madama Butterfly’s Suzuki, Faust’s Siebel, Die Fledermaus’ Orlovsky, Il Barbiere’s Rosina, Hoffmann’s Niklausse, La Donna del Lago’s Malcom, Anna Bolena’s Eric Smeton, and many others. In concert repertoire, Kathryn has been heard as Alto Soloist at Carnegie Hall, The Tokyo Symphony, Weill Hall and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in repertoire including Mahler’s Symphony Nr. 2, Berlioz’ La Mort de Cleopatre, Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9, Mozart’s Requiem, K. 626, Handel’s Messiah and Vivaldi’s Gloria.