Kara Dugan
Mezzo Soprano
"brings vocal warmth and rich character"
-The New York Times
Press
"Dugan’s agility and noble shaping of the vocal line captured the exoticism of “Nahandove” from Chansons madécasses."
Lawrence Budman
South Florida Classical Review
"The Mahler songs were rich and lyrical, but it was mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan's velvety voice that most vividly caught my ear."
Boston Arts Diary
"The mezzo-soprano Kara [Dugan] brings vocal warmth and rich character to the role of the lovelorn Zaida."
Anthony Tommasini
The New York Times
"[Her] rich tone blended beautifully"
James R. Oesterich
The New York Times
"All of the other vocal soloists were more than up to their several challenges, in particular mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan, whose burnished tone was a good match to her many prominent moments, both in duet and as a soloist."
(Soprano II soloist in Bach's Mass in B minor)
John Ehrilch
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Mezzo soprano Kara Dugan was Cherubino in "Figaro," gracefully singing the sweetly seductive "Voi Che Sapete."
Mary Kunz Goldman
Buffalo News
"Kara.....who can easily flip into a jazz singer's croon, proved her mastery of style and languages, and gave expressive, nuanced interpretations of Henry Purcell's Baroque "If music be the food of love," German Lieder, French chansons, contemporary opera and jazz standards."
Susan L. Pena
Reading Eagle