Lewek is anticipating her July wedding.....

KATHRYN LEWEK'S abnormally dull, rich voice flashes through high coloratura as though destined to the fach. 

• Yet, at an opportune time, singing soprano appeared an inaccessible dream. "I had a vast range," says Lewek, "yet I had this hole from high B to D—and after that I had a fifth or a 6th above it. Since my voice essentially ceased at B-level, everyone resembled, 'Duh! You're a mezzo.
• ' I figured this high-note oddness was more similar to a male's falsetto, and I didn't think anybody needed to hear it, since it seemed like a tune of biting the dust felines."

Lewek sang zwischenfach parts amid her learns at the Eastman School of Music.

•  "As an artist, there are things you accomplish for the gathering of people and things you accomplish for yourself," she says, "and for me, what was fun was abounding in that center voice. 
• Individuals continued saying, 'Help up—I guarantee your voice has enough shading.
• ' So I at last began taking their recommendation, and that crevice begun to fill in.
• " Her present instructor, Diana Soviero, set her on her actual way.
•  "Diana stated, 'This is one of those rarities in the musical drama business—you're a genuine sensational coloratura. 
• You have to grasp that.' So I put my life and my voice in her grasp, and she changed me."

Notwithstanding early guidance against singing the Queenof the Night, it has turned into Lewek's "international ID part."

She calls the overwhelming task "the ideal meaning of craftsman stream.

• It happens so quick, it's practically similar to being in a fender bender. 
• In the event that you overthink things, you add up to the auto, yet in the event that you let your senses assume control, some way or another you endure. 
• The hardest thing I've ever needed to do is show myself how to sing Queen of the Night level. 
• In Aix, we did it with Baroque ensemble. Singing the Queen is similar to playing darts with your eyes shut. 
• In case you're a specialist, you can close your eyes, and you know the correct force, the correct stature—whatever. 
• So this resembles, you close your eyes, and they move the dartboard down a half inch."

Lewek is anticipating her July wedding to tenor ZachBorichevsky, and to a post-special first night spell at the Salzburg Festival as Ginevra to Cecilia Bartoli's Ariodante—one of seven noteworthy new parts she has gone up against more than two seasons. How can she keep up her harmony?

"It's a yoga thing to set an expectation before each practice," she says. "I do likewise with my singing. 

Before I walk in front of an audience, I set an expectation—'This is the message I need to get out.' If you're readied, everything else deals with itself. 

You don't need to consider what position your left foot is in."