Mary Catherine Wright is a recent graduate of the University where she received her Bachelors in Vocal Performance and a certificate in Musical Theatre under the direction of Dr. Everett McCorvey. She is a 2015 Metropolitan National Council Audition Mid-South Region Finalist and was the first-place winner of the 2012 Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition. Most recently, Mary Catherine performed the role of Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with the Savannah Voice Festival. This past summer, she traveled to Chicago to perform the role of Second Woman in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and cover the role of Servilia in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito. Ms. Wright has sung in the Kentucky Opera chorus for their past few seasons and has performed Handel's Messiah throughout the holiday season. On occasion, she enjoys traveling to New York to sing with the National Chorale. In November 2014, she was the recipient of the Encouragement Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions. Mary Catherine enjoys traveling the world. Most recently, Ms. Wright traveled to Prague, CZ to perform Zerlina in Don Giovanni in the Estates Theatre in July 2015. Ms. Wright recently made her made her professional debut as Nuria in Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar in April 2015 with the Lexington Philharmonic, Kentucky Opera, and UK Opera Theatre. Mary Catherine has enjoyed playing roles such as Olympia in the Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Carrie in Carousel, the Princess in the university premiere of Little Nemo in Slumberland and Suor Genovieffa in Puccini's Suor Angelica. She has also studied and covered the role of Cosette in Les Misérables. A few of her awards include first place in both the Musical Theatre and Classical divisions of Regional and Divisional NATS, first place at the Peterson Undergraduate Vocal Competition in November 2014, and a national finalist in the High School Division at the Classical Singer Conventions in New York and California.