Chenoweth to tap opera roots

Kristin Chenoweth is going back to her roots as an opera singer.

The Tony winner will give a solo concert at New York’s Metropolitan Opera on Jan. 19 and make her formal Met debut as Samira in John Corigliano’s “The Ghosts of Versailles” in March 2010.

Chenoweth, 38, won a scholarship in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions as a lyric coloratura but turned down the scholarship for her first off-Broadway role. After a stint on “The West Wing,” she returns to Broadway Dec. 14 in “The Apple Tree.”