Karla Goettel’s soprano voice serves her in a career of extraordinary range. She performs with the Omaha, Mankato, Dubuque, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Clinton, Wartburg and Northwest Iowa Symphonies as well as the Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale and Waterloo Metropolitan Chorale in repertoire ranging from Bach, Mozart and Haydn to Gerswhin, Cole Porter and Andrew Lloyd Webber. She has performed many times with the Cedar Rapids Symphony, including a Holiday Pops concert that was broadcast on Iowa Public Television. She held a 12-week contract with Old Creamery Theatre (an Equity company) and is a frequent guest with Liar’s Theatre of Marion, Iowa. Many of these performances have been broadcast on radio and television. As Maria in “The Sound of Music” she performed for over 10,000 people in sold-out performances. Karla has sung two principal roles with the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, The Mother in “Amahl and the Night Visitors” and Adele in “Die Fledermaus.”

Her solo recitals have taken her across the United States, including Boulder and Denver, Colorado, Arkansas, throughout Ohio, to Virginia and West Virginia and down the east coast of Florida, which culminated in a performance at the famed Flagler Museum in Palm Beach with Maestro Paul Csonka, conductor of the Palm Beach Opera, at the piano. She was selected to perform for the National Governors Gala at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines in 2005.

Karla has coached with Metropolitan conductors Richard Woitach and Jeffrey Tate, Richard Boldrey of the Chicago Lyric Opera and Robert Larsen from Des Moines Metro Opera. Her honors include selection as one of thirteen finalists in the National Opera Association Auditions held in Dallas, Texas and a career development grant from the Young Artist Development Fund in Cleveland, Ohio. She has twice been named an Outstanding Young Woman of America.

Karla has toured extensively for the Iowa Arts Council, performing and teaching in over 65 Iowa communities.