Kristen Hertzenberg
Best known for her role as Christine in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera, Kristen Hertzenberg has proven her ability to sing anything in her concerts, performing music ranging from opera to Broadway to blues. In 2014, Nevada Public Radio-affiliated Desert Companion magazine named her Best Torch Singer in Las Vegas, describing her voice as “a dynamic instrument that goes from gritty blues to angelic peal at the drop of a Julie London record sleeve.”
Raised in the Houston area, Hertzenberg studied at UT Austin and earned a master’s degree in opera at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also studied at the Austrian American Mozart Academy in Salzburg, Austria and was a first place winner in the National Opera Association competition. After touring Europe in the musical Hair, she moved to Las Vegas for Phantom where she spent five years in her dream role. She has also played Sophie in Terrence McNally’s Master Class, Heidi in [title of show], and most recently starred as Dyanne in the Las Vegas production of the Tony award winning musical Million Dollar Quartet.
As a featured soloist, Hertzenberg has sung with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, Abilene Philharmonic, and McCall Summerfest orchestras and continues to perform her cabaret evening in venues across the country and abroad. She has become a regular in The Smith Center’s prestigious Cabaret Jazz room in Las Vegas, performing to sold-out audiences in the last three years both with her band and with acclaimed pianist and Broadway veteran Philip Fortenberry. The two previously collaborated on their album Holidays from the Heart, available on iTunes. Against a backdrop of Auto-Tuned fakery and prefab idols, Hertzenberg stands out for being a genuine, stunning, effects-free entertainer who can drop jaws with the best of them. For this and many other attributes, critics have called her delivery “perfect,” her voice, “gorgeous,” “lilting and limitless.”
