Caroline Taylor

British lyric coloratura soprano Caroline Taylor graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with Distinction, where she won the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for Singing of Strauss. A keen performer of Czech repertoire, she won the 2021 Emmy Destinn Award for Czech Opera and Song and the 2023 Off West End Opera Performance Award with Hampstead Garden Opera for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, in which she played the title role. She is a City Music Foundation Artist, the recipient of a Help Musicians UK Fast Track Award 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 (St Andrews Chorus), Mozart’s Requiem at the Oxford International Song Festival (formerly Oxford Lieder) and Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem at Bath Abbey (Bath Minerva Choir). A keen recitalist, she performs a song gala with tenor Nicky Spence OBE and acclaimed collaborative pianist Roger Vignoles at the Two Moors Festival, Mussorgsky’s Детская (The Nursery) and slavonic songs alongside eminent bass-baritone Brian Bannatyne-Scott and pianist 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.

Caroline opened the 2023/2024 season with her recital debut at the Royal Opera House, accompanied by Fran Hills. Further season highlights included 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), Helena The Enchanted Island (British Youth Opera), She Cupboard Love, Governess The Turn of the Screw and Miss Wordsworth Albert Herring (Byre Opera), Papagena The Magic Flute (St Andrews Voices), Kate The Yeomen of the Guard (Grange Festival), Sara in the world premiere of Ben Kaye and Adam Gorb’s The Path to Heaven (RNCM, Psappha) and a number of leading Gilbert & Sullivan roles.

Caroline has enjoyed particular success in the roles of 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 Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the Northern Chamber Orchestra, Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Northern Ballet Sinfonia, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Bridgewater Hall, broadcast on BBC Radio 3; and solo performances at Wigmore Hall, St James’s Piccadilly, St Martin in the Fields, St John’s Smith Square and the Holywell Music Room, Oxford. 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.

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