Kimberly Gratland James

Last season, contralto Kimberly Gratland James returned to the Dallas Symphony as Wellgunde in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung after making her début the previous spring in performances of Das Rheingold. She also joined Fort Worth Symphony to cover Mary in Der fliegende Holländer. This season, she returns to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of Angelica Negron’s For Everything You Keep Losing. Other recent concert performances include Judas Maccabeus with the Master Chorale of Flagstaff, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen with the Great Falls Symphony, and songs with chamber orchestra by Ethyl Smyth and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Idaho Falls Symphony.

On the operatic stage, Ms. James most recently sang the lead role of Cecelia in the comic opera Behold the Man with Opera Las Vegas. OperaWire raved, “…from her very first note…one might say she channeled the voice of Cecilia.” Additional recent credits include Herodias in Rimrock Opera’s Salome and Gertrude Stein in Ricky Ian Gordon’s 27 with Opera Las Vegas; as well as Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmélites, Principessa in Suor Angelica, and Mary in Der fliegende Holländer. She also joined the Helena Symphony to sing Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro and the title role in Carmen.

Ms. James has sung Verdi’s Requiem with the Tallahassee Symphony, Pocatello Civic Symphony, the Missoula Symphony, and the Corpus Christi Symphony; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Idaho Falls Symphony, Pocatello Civic Symphony, and the Missoula Symphony; Mozart’s Requiem with Missoula Symphony, Glacier Symphony, and Billings Symphony; Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Great Falls Symphony, the Missoula Symphony, and the UNLV Symphony; Mahler’s Symphony No 8 and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Helena Symphony; Haydn’s Paukenmesse with the Classical Music Festival in Austria; and Loevendie’s Six Turkish Folkpoems with the Tanglewood Festival.