Kelly Morel

Originally from Los Angeles, dramatic soprano Kelly Morel now resides in Kansas City, Missouri where she has sung regularly with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, in addition to other US and European regional companies. In 2023 she sang the role Mrs. Massey (Moravec’s The Shining) with LOKC, which was nominated in 2025 for a Grammy Award for Best New Opera Recording. Her transition to dramatic soprano also occurred in 2023 after singing Leonore (Beethoven’s Fidelio) with Opera Company of Middlebury. Since then she has sung Isolde (Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde) and Brünnhilde (Wagner’s Die Walküre) with Dramatic Voices Midwest.