KIM STENGEL is the longest running Carlotta worldwide. With over 4,800 performances she has appeared as Carlotta on Broadway and throughout the U.S., Canada and Asia, including the Toronto Company until its final performance with KISS rocker Paul Stanley as the "Phantom".
Ms. Stengel's extensive opera and musical theatre career has taken her around the globe.
London: The Gondoliers (Casilda) and the title role in Princess Ida.
New York: Carousel (Carrie), Kismet (Marsinah), The Most Happy Fella (Rosabella) and The New Moon (Marrianne).
As a lyric coloratura on the concert and opera stage, she has appeared in The Creation, Mass in C, War Requiem and Carmen.
National credits: The Sound of Music (Maria & Elsa), My Fair Lady (Eliza), Sweeny Todd (Ms. Lovett), Camelot (Guenevere), The Music Man (Marian).
Ms. Stengel has also toured the world in her one-woman show and was guest performer at the 1989 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
Non-singing credits include leading roles in Uncle Vanya, Agnes of God, Pygmalion, Death of a Salesman, and the Southwest premier of The Elephant Man. She is currently in post-production for the upcoming motion-capture animated film The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn with director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson scheduled for release in December, 2011. She will portray the role of Bianca Castafiore opposite Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis. Her many entrepreneurial endeavors can be found at www.KimStengel.com.
“Much love to JC. Thank you for putting the music back into my song!” Her greatest and proudest production to date is her amazing and beautiful daughter Kendra.