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2021 Performance Dates

2020 Performance Dates

October 2020

• Jamal, How Are You? by DaPaperBoy Productions is a satirical comedy that takes a close look at the disconnect between black people and their white counterparts in the middle of the current Black Lives Matter climate. Katherine was honored to be a featured actor in this DC short film that premiered in October 2020 and was recognized on BET's Instagram in February 2021! See the BET Black Film Friday interview with executive producer, Josh Vincent, and director, Blake Bynum, here. 

August 12, 2020

• On another PCU Daily Declassified, I chat with Pete about one of my quarantine guilty pleasures: The Great British Baking Show. 

August 5, 2020

• On Pop Culture Uncovered, I chat with Pete on the Daily Declassified Podcast about the new film adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. 

 

2019 Performance Dates

 

2018 Performance Dates

December 2018

• Katherine McClain continues her work as a soloist with Mother Seton Catholic Church in Germantown, MD. Please join for our Christmas Masses! 

September 28-30, 2018

• Along with other members of Pop Culture Uncovered, Katherine McClain will be a panelist at the Baltimore Comic Con for Me, Too and Geekdom. See the full panel here. 

2017 Performance Dates

August 1, 2017

• Katherine joins the Pop Culture Uncovered crew for their World of Beer podcast. 

April 21-22 8:00PM

• RECOMMENDED BY WYES STEPPIN' OUT! An Evening with La Diva: Adelina Patti's one woman show returns to New Orleans after runs at the Shadowbox Theatre and Razor's Edge Festival. At the tender age of 17 in the winter of 1860, Adelina Patti debuted at the newly completed French Opera House on Bourbon Street. Today, An Evening with La Diva, the song and story of her life, makes its Marigny Opera House debut just a mile away. Join La Diva, first of her name and most famous operatic star of the 19th century, as she trills, charms, jibes, and recounts her life from child prodigy to superstar. One woman show written and performed by Katherine McClain based on character developed through Louisiana History Alive. With collaborative accompanist, Raymond Kit Loong Yee. 

• WHAT: An Evening with La Diva at the Marigny Opera House
• WHEN: April 21 and 22 at 8PM
• WHERE: Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand Street, New Orleans
• TICKETS: $20/$10 Student & Senior, available now online

 AN EVENING WITH LA DIVA AT TIMESTAMP 21:43 BELOW!        

 

 

April 15 & 16

• This Easter, three services will be offered at the The Marigny Opera House on the Saturday night before (April 15) and the Sunday morning of Easter (April 16). The Easter Sunday services will include the performance of an Easter Cantata by Scott R. King, with service text by Bishop Joe Morris Doss, featuring cantor, Scott R. King, quartet members, Katherine McClain, Kay White, Cameron-Mitchell Ware, and Edward White, and instrumentalists, Larry Siebert and Christian Delery. 

• The Passion: (9am-10:30am) The passion of the Christ in crucifixion and the passion of Mother Earth as continuing to participate in Christ’s crucifixion. 
• The Easter Banquet of Eucharist: (11:00 – 12:30) The Resurrection as fulfillment of creation. The service will include drama and a full meal as well as the sacrament. The food will be the traditional lamb, vegetables, shrimp and grits, champagne, wine, and water, served by Li’l Dizzy’s Restaurant. 

April 1, 6, & 7

• Through the Darkness: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories: Krewe du Voix Chamber Choir continues their first season with an Easter presentation. The music for Holy Week begins with royal triumph and quickly descends into bitter betrayal, torture, abandonment, and death.  The Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) set the complete liturgical texts for Holy Week, creating one of the greatest collection of dramatic, heart-wrenching works for the week leading up to Easter. Donations accepted at the door. Concerts on:

• Saturday, April 1st, 1:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Assumption Church, Josephine Street, New Orleans
• Thursday, April 6th, 6:00 p.m., St. Mary’s Church, Old Ursuline Convent, Chartres Street, New Orleans
• Friday, April 7th, 7:30 p.m., Immaculate Conception (Jesuit) Church, Baronne Street, New Orleans.

2016 Performance Dates

September 8 6:30PM

• On Thursday, September 8, St. Patrick's Church will present Franz Schubert's Mass No. 2 in G Major for the Nativity of the BVM. Performed with soli, chorus, strings, and organ. Concert begins at 6:30pm and is free and open to the public. St. Patrick's Church, 724 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130. 

September 16 thru October 2

• Katherine returns in gingham and ruby slippers as Judy Garland in the National WWII Museum's Thanks for the Memories: Bob Hope & His All Star Pacific Tour at BB's Stage Door Canteen, accompanying Mr. Hope and a dozen other Golden Age of Film Stars on his USO trip for the soldiers in the Pacific Theatre of WWII. Join them on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays for dinner and a show.  

        TICKETS AVAILABLE

October 20 8:00PM

• Vox Feminis: A Celebration of Women Poets: On Thursday, October 20, join RuthAnn Chadwick, Katherine McClain, and Katherine Sherwood White for a celebration of female voices in Vox Feminis, presented by the Marigny Opera House and Crescent Chamber Artists. This concert presents female vocalists singing beautiful and complex texts and compositions by women. Including works by poets Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Trevor Teasdale, Alice Fulton, Hilda Doolittle, and Marianne Moore. Concert begins at 8:00pm. Suggested donation of $20 at the door. 

November 2 6:30PM

• Requiem Mass: On Wednesday, November 2, come to St. Patrick's Church for an All Souls' Day presentation of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem 1893 version edited by John Rutter with chorus and orchestra. Concert and requiem mass begins at 6:30pm and is free and open to the public. 

November thru December

• Christmas in New Orleans: Katherine will once again don the high boots and flirting fan of Adelina Patti, famed opera diva of the 19th century with Louisiana History Alive for the holiday season. Keep an eye on the Facebook page for specific sightings of her with other famous dignitaries of Louisiana history such as Marie Laveau, the Baroness Pontalba, and Jean Lafitte. Special performances Fridays at Noon in the French Market. 

December 6 & 10

• Christmas with Palestrina & Praetorius: New professional vocal ensemble, Krewe du Voix Chamber Choir, presents its inaugural concerts of Renaissance and Baroque music on Decmeber 6 at 7:30pm at Trinity Episcopal Church and on Decmeber 10 at 2pm at St. Patrick's Church. Join us for glorious singing and sacred motets under conductor Paul Weber. Palestrina’s rarely heard 5-voice Missa O Magnum Mysterium will be sung along with German Christmas carols from the great Hamburg master, Michael Praetorius. Suggested donation at the door. 

December 24 9:00PM

• Christmas Eve: St. Patrick's Church will once again present Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. This year, Joseph Leopold Eybler's Missa Sancti Alberti for soli, chorus, and full orchestra will receive its North American Premiere. Eybler was a prized student of W.A. Mozart. Prelude begins at 9:15pm, mass in Extraordinary Form begins at 10pm and will be over by midnight. Free and open to the public. 

2015 Performance Dates

September 7, 14, 21, 28

• Katherine will again be singing in "A Taste of Opera", seasonal preview concerts hosted by the New Orleans Opera at the French Market (New Orleans French Quarter) each Sunday in September. Concerts begin at 4pm and are free.

September 19, 20, 21, 26 & 28

• Katherine will be reprising her role as Judy Garland in Thanks for the Memories: Bob Hope and His All-Star Pacific Tour at the National WW2 Museum. For more information click HERE

October 9

• Katherine will be performing a concert with Andrew Mills, choirmaster and organist at St. Patrick's Church. Mr. Mills will play several Baroque pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach while Ms. McClain will join him to sing the full Exsultate Jubilate and "Laudate Dominum" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The concert begins at 7pm and is free to the public. St. Patrick's Church
• Watch highlights from Katherine’s performance of Monteverdi's "Vespers of 1610" at the Marigny Opera House, New Orleans in December, 2013.Monteverdi Vespers won Best Choral Arts Presentation at the Big Easy Classical Awards on February 14, 2014.

View the video here.