Caroline Taylor
Artist Reviews
"The high notes from soprano Caroline Taylor bring tears to my eyes, not the story, not the words, simply the sound.” Another Afternoon at the Opera, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023
“Soprano Caroline Taylor, already well known to many in the pews from her brilliant lead in HGO's production of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, opened with a piece from Fidelio which…thrilled the audience.” Of Love and War, HGOpera 2023
"Caroline Taylor gave an impressive rendition of the solo songs [...] John Bannister’s three settings of Ariel’s Songs from The Tempest were sung with sparkling finesse...whilst the anonymous ‘Begone sweit night’ received an affecting interpretation on account of Taylor’s pure-voiced nobility"
“Caroline Taylor in particular shone in this programme. A very talented soprano, also a charming and intelligent actress, she moved apparently effortlessly from the coquettish Norina in Don Pasquale to Bizet’s virtuous Micaëla, to Mozart’s Susanna, and the flirtatious vixen in The Cunning Little Vixen, concluding with one of the best renderings of Vilja Lied from The Merry Widow that I with my Austrian heritage have heard. " An Afternoon at the Opera, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022
Biography
British soprano Caroline Taylor graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with Distinction, where she won the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Strauss Award. A keen performer of Czech repertoire, she won the Emmy Destinn Award for Czech Opera and Song and the Off West End Opera Performance Award with Hampstead Garden Opera as the title role in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen. She is a City Music Foundation Artist, a 2025 Song Easel Artist and a Making Music UK Recommended Artist for 2024-2026.
Praised for her “glittering soprano” (The Times), Caroline’s current season includes Fauré’s Requiem and Poulenc’s Gloria at the Caird Hall, Dundee, Mozart’s Requiem at the Oxford International Song Festival and Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem under Gavin Carr at Bath Abbey. A keen recitalist, she performs a song gala with Nicky Spence OBE and Roger Vignoles at the Two Moors Festival, Mussorgsky’s Детская (The Nursery) with Derek Clark and completes a UK and European recital tour with her duo partner Sebastian Issler. This summer, she makes her role debut as Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Cumbria Opera Festival.
Highlights of 2023/2024 included Caroline’s recital debut with Fran Hills at the Royal Ballet and Opera, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (Peri) at the Caird Hall and a solo recital with Roger Vignoles at Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, in a programme comprising Strauss’ Brentano Lieder.
Opera credits include La Musica/L’Orfeo (Longborough Festival Opera), Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi (RNCM Opera), Governess/The Turn of the Screw (Byre Opera), Kate/The Yeomen of the Guard (Grange Festival) and Sara in the World Premiere of Ben Kaye and Adam Gorb’s The Path to Heaven (RNCM, Psappha). Caroline has enjoyed particular success as Vixen Sharp-Ears (HGO; Longborough – cover; Barnes Music Festival), Asteria/Tamerlano (Cambridge Handel Opera; Grange Festival, sung performance) and Adina/The Elixir of Love (Duchy Opera; King’s Head Theatre), with Opera Magazine hailing her “astonishing veracity and persuasiveness”.
Concert highlights include Britten’s Les Illuminations (Northern Ballet Sinfonia), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Bridgewater Hall, broadcast on BBC Radio 3; and solo performances at Wigmore Hall and St Martin in the Fields. Caroline is a former Concordia Foundation Artist, member of the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange and Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist with duo partner George Ireland.
Prior to her musical studies, Caroline completed an MA (Hons) in French, Italian and Spanish at the University of St Andrews, comprising an Erasmus year abroad at Université Paris-IV Sorbonne. She graduated as the recipient of the Cedric Thorpe Davie Memorial Prize for outstanding contribution to music and theatre. June 2025
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| Composer | Work |
| Bach JS | B Minor Mass |
| St John Passion | |
| St Matthew Passion | |
| Beethoven | Symphony no 9 |
| Brahms | Ein Deutsches Requiem |
| Faure | Requiem |
| Handel | Jephtha (Angel) |
| Messiah | |
| Saul (Michal) | |
| Haydn | Nelson Mass |
| Mahler | Symphony No 4 |
| Symphony No 8 (Mater Gloriosa) | |
| Mozart | Exsultate, Jubilate |
| Requiem | |
| Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Pergolesi | Stabat Mater |
| Poulenc | Goria |
| Rossini | Petite Messe Solenelle |
| Schumann R | Das Paradies und die Peri (Peri) |
| Strauss R | Vier Letzte Lieder |
| Sullivan A | The Golden Legend (in preparation) |
| Vaughan Williams | Dona Nobis Pacem |
| Serenade to Music (Dame Eva Gardiner) | |
| Sinfonia Antarctica | |
| Vivaldi | Beatus Vir |
| Gloria | |
| Magnificat |