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In addition, she produced and costumed Madama Butterfly for the National Opera Company of Costa Rica, which presented nine performances at the National Theater in San José to sold-out audiences and rave reviews in 2005.

On the operatic stage, Ms. Komatsu has been equally successful as an actress and singer. In praise of her portrayals of such roles as Mimi and Musetta in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, and Micaëla in Carmen, press reviewers have described her as having "gorgeous sonority," "awesome skill," "great musical sensitivity," and acting ability which is "consistently poignant" and "moving." She has worked with stage directors Matthew Lata, Gary Race, Roger Brunyate and Mary Charbonnet, among others.

She also has sung extensively in concert and oratorio, having appeared with such orchestras as the Moscow Radio Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, to name only a few. Conductors have included Julius Rudel, John Nelson, Fiora Contino, Eiji Oue, Grant Cooper, Chosei Komatsu, Grzegorz Nowak, and Raymond Harvey.

In 1992, Ms. Komatsu made her Russian debut with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in an opera gala concert in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses for an audience of more than 5,000. Her performance was enthusiastically praised as being "in the finest tradition of the Bolshoi Theatre." She has since returned to Russia to appear with the Bolshoi Theatre Sextet, Moscow Radio Symphony and St. Petersburg Symphony. European engagements have taken her also to Poland, Ukraine, England, Denmark and Germany.

Ms. Komatsu made her Tokyo debut in 1996, with the New Japan Philharmonic in Casals Hall, and has since appeared as the featured soloist with many of the major Japanese orchestras. She has presented numerous recitals and participated in six chamber music tours in Japan. In addition, for four consecutive summers she performed and taught at the Takefu International Music Festival as an artist-in-residence.

For eleven years she lived in Canada, where she performed with the Edmonton Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Between Friends Music Theatre, Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Festival of the Sound, and throughout Canada on the CBC Radio network. Her debut CD with American pianist Barry Snyder was recorded in the CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. It features a program of art songs in Russian, German, Japanese, French, and English.

From 1982-1992, she was a professor of voice at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where she received the 1990 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Prior to that she held teaching posts at Ball State University and Anderson University. Teaching activity also has included lecture recitals at Moscow State University (Russia) and Kunitachi School of Music (Japan), and master classes in Japan, China, Canada, Costa Rica and the United States.

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