Radmilovic Opera
Under her Croatian family name Radmilovic, Kate began her career in Opera and Operetta following a training at the Royal Northern College of Music where she won the Elizabeth Harwood Best Singer of the Year Award and a Peter Moores scholarship to then go and study at the Zurich International Opera Studio. Kate subsequently took on house repertoire contracts in Germany and Switzerland as a leading Lyric soprano. She won the Public performance Prize at the Robert Stolz Operetta competition in Hamburg, and second place at the Vissi d’arte Opera competition in Eboli and in 2008 she returned to the UK to play Carlotta in Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's, West End. Kate was then part of the critically acclaimed Ring Cycle at Longborough Festival Opera playing Freia and returning later in 2012 to cover Bruennhilde in Siegfried. Kate has worked with conductors including Jiři Kout, Anthony Neagus, Hilary Griffiths, Lothar Koenigs, Marcus Bosh both in opera and on the concert platform in Europe.
A versatile career in both opera, operetta and Musical Theatre, Kate most recently playing the comic role of Myrtle Bagot in Noel Cowards Brief Encounter with songs by Eammon O'Dwyer to critical acclaim at the Watermill Newbury and is currently playing Mrs Gloop and Grandma Josephine in Playful and Neal Productions "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
Opera credits: Lady Billows in Albert Herring (Darmstadt Opera); Freia in Das Rheingold, Sieglinde in Die Walküre (cover); Brunnhilde in Siegfried (cover) at Longborough Opera Festival Ring Cycle; Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte (Eutin Festival/ St Gallen Theatre, Obberamagau Festival), Antonia Tales of Hoffmann (St Gallen Opera) Minette in The English Cat (Deutsche Radio/, Osnabrück Opera House), Mimi and Musetta - La Boheme, The Fox in Cunning Little Vixen, Tatijana in Eugene Onegin, Countess in Mozart’s Die Nozze di Figaro, Vitellia in Titus, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Violetta in La Traviata, Cio Cio San in Madame Butterfly (Osnabrück and Heidelberg Opernhaus), Agathe in Der Freischütz, Frau Fluth in Merry wives of Windsor (Weimer Opera) , Leila in Pearl Fishers; Kunigunde in Lortzing's Hans Sachs, Nettchen in Zemlinsky's Kleider machen Leute; Soprano soloist in Janáček's Glagolitic Mass (staged) Osnabrück Opera).
Operetta/Musical Theatre credits: Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and Lisa in Land des Lächeln, (Osnabrück Opernhaus), Sylva Varescu in Kalmanns Czardas Fürstin (St Gallen Opernhaus). Christine in "Traviata in 7 mins" (Studio St Gallen); Myrtel Bagot in Emma Rice adaptation of Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter at the Watermill, Newbury ; Rita in Noel Cowards "Ace of Spades" (Union theatre off west end) Mrs Zero in Joshua Schmidt's "The Adding Machine" (Finborough Theatre, off west end), Mrs O'Brien/Parthy in Showboat (Crucible Sheffield/New London Theatre) Carlotta - Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's); Mirele - Soviet Zion (concept Album - Aria Entertainment/stage kindly); Soloist in Pitlochry Festival arena concerts; soloist at the Night at the Musicals and Opera at Pitlochry Summer Festival 2021; Wizard in the Wizard of Oz (Selladoor worldwide), Lottie Child - Crazy for you (No.1 National Tour Jamie Wilson Productions)