Kay Paschal Freeman's exciting career successfully established her with opera companies throughout the United States and Europe.  She brought particular distinction to the elegant heroines of Mozart’s operas as Countess Almaviva, Pamina, Donna Elvira, and Donna Anna; revealed a natural flair for comedy in Donizetti and J. Strauss as Adina, Marie, Norina, and Rosalinda; and conveyed the depths of passion and despair in Puccini, Verdi, and Leoncavallo as Madama Butterfly, Mimì, Gilda, Violetta, and Nedda.  She has graced the stages of Atlanta Opera, Baltimore Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington Opera, Opera Colorado, Charlotte Opera, Mississippi Opera, Connecticut Opera, Mobile Opera, Tulsa Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Baton Rouge Opera, Sacramento Opera, Opera Festival of Oklahoma, Birmingham Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Knoxville Opera, Arkansas Opera Theater, Chattanooga Opera, and the National Grand Opera in New York.  Her critically acclaimed European debut was as Anna Maurrant in the Berlin premiere of Kurt Weill’s STREET SCENE at Theater des Westens, followed by a return to Germany to perform Eva in DIE MEISTERSINGER at Volkstheater Rostock. Highlights of Ms. Paschal’s success on the concert stage, include performances with the Dallas Symphony, Denver Symphony, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Palm Beach Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Florida Symphony, Sun City Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, Jackson Symphony, Duluth Symphony, Binghamton Symphony, and Oklahoma City Symphony.  Ms. Paschal starred in the special Easter SAINT PAUL SUNDAY MORNING National Public Radio broadcast of Poulenc’s GLORIA with the Kansas City Philharmonic.  A more recent performance was again as Anna Maurrant in the Central City Opera production of STREET SCENE.  Successful in countless competitions and contests, Ms. Paschal was a winner of the prestigious National Institute of Music Theatre award, given by Beverly Sills and Hal Prince at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.  For over ten years Ms. Paschal was the voice teacher at Opera in the Ozarks, a popular summer opera training/production festival.  She and her husband, opera director Carroll Freeman, currently live in Knoxville, where she has taught voice at the University of Tennessee School of Music and Lee University.  She is currently the voice instructor for the Clarence Brown Theater’s Master of Fine Arts students of the University of Tennessee and serves as a consultant to the voice program at Seymour High School, one of the pre-eminent choral departments in America.  She has given many masterclasses, including those for NATS, Des Moines Metro Opera apprentice program, Opera in the Ozarks, and has recently been a drama-coach for Rising Star Vocal Works, Indiana.  Ms. Paschal is most notably the proud mother of eleven-year-old Adam.

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E-mail:  KayPFreeman@comcast.net