ABOUT KEELY

Soprano, "KEELY FUTTERER, a native of Arkansas, is charging up the ladder of vocal-music prominence." 

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Ms. Futterer has been praised by Opera News as a “high-quality lyric soprano with a keen  verbal nuance,” and has been seen in performances across the globe in China, Italy, and the United States. Career highlights of Ms. Futterer include the leading ladies of Elle in La Voix Humaine, the title role of Suor Angelica, Adina in L’elisir  d’amore, and Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. She received critical acclaim for her role debut of Marie in La fille du régiment at Opera Saratoga, where she was reviewed as having “one of the most gorgeous voices you can imagine with  charm to match. Hers [was] a performance you will remember and speak about for years.” She has also performed an  array of new opera, in addition to the classics, such as Isabella Beecher in Victoria Bond's Mrs. President, the Witch Mother  in the American premiere of Philip Glass’s The Witches of Venice, and in 2017, she was part of the New Works Forum in  NYC with American Lyric Theatre, premiering the role of Sara Turing in The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing.  

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Ms. Futterer has also had success in competition; she won 3rd place out of over 70 competitors in Pheonix Art Network: Bologna International Voice Competition in Bologna, Italy, and was awarded an additional, discretionary prize by the Varna  State Opera. She was a semi-finalist at the Midwest Regional MET Auditions, won first place in the Friends of Eastman  Opera Competition, was a finalist and won the Audience Favorite Award in the Rochester Classical Idol Competition, and  took 2nd place for the American Prize. In recent years, she won first prize in Lyra New York's Mozart Competition, in both  the aria and art song categories, and also placed first in Opera Mississippi’s John Alexander National Vocal Competition. 

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A passionate interpreter of concert work, Ms. Futterer has covered Renée Fleming for the world premiere of Kevin Puts’  Letters from Georgia with the Eastman Philharmonic, was the soloist for Mahler’s Symphony IV, also with the Eastman  Philharmonic, and performed Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. She has also  been the soloist for other oratorio and concert engagements such as the Mozart Requiem, Bach’s solo cantata for soprano,  BWV 51: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, Handel's Messiah, Orff's Carmina Burana, and Brahms' Deutches Requiem, as well  as scenes and aria concerts around the United States, China, and Italy. In 2019, Ms. Futterer had the great honor to work  the Lynx Project on their Autism Advocacy Concert Series, where she performed the world debut of two song cycles, both  written expressly for her voice. 

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Ms. Futterer has been a young artist with Opera Saratoga, a member of Opera Memphis’ Handorf Company Artist Program,  Tulsa Opera's Filstrup Resident Artist Program, Opera Naples' Coaching Intensive with Renata Scotto, and recently was a  young artist at The Glimmerglass Festival, where she premiered the role of Angostura LaBelle in the Rossini pastiche, Tenor Overboard. For the 2022-2023 season, Ms. Futterer will be joining the Resident Artist Program at Minnesota Opera, where  she will perform in the World Premiere of Edward Tulane and debut Armida in Rinaldo.

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