Caroline Taylor

British 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 and was a finalist in the Gold Medal. 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.

Praised for her “glittering soprano” (The Times), 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, Dundee and a solo recital with acclaimed collaborative pianist Roger Vignoles at Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, in a programme comprising Strauss’ Brentano Lieder. This summer, she looks forward to taking part in the New Voices Singing Competition at the Northern Aldborough Festival.

Caroline’s opera credits include La Musica L’Orfeo (Longborough Festival Opera), Adina The Elixir of Love (Duchy Opera; King’s Head Theatre; Opera’r Ddraig), Lauretta Gianni Schicchi and the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon (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) and a number of leading Gilbert & Sullivan roles. In 2022, Caroline made her role debut as Asteria in a new English translation of Handel’s Tamerlano with Cambridge Handel Opera, later jumping in to sing the role in the original Italian at the Grange Festival to considerable acclaim.

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 and solo performances at Wigmore Hall, St James’s Piccadilly, St Martin in the Fields and St John’s Smith Square. Caroline is a former Concordia Foundation Artist, Leeds Lieder Young Artist and member of the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange and was most recently an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist with duo partner George Ireland.

Caroline enjoys performing new and contemporary music and was honoured to create the role of Sara in the 2018 World Premiere of Ben Kaye and Adam Gorb’s The Path to Heaven (RNCM, Psappha), directed by Stefan Janski and conducted by Mark Heron. She also gave the World Premiere of Jen Hartley and Kerry Darbishire’s Lakeland Song Cycle with pianist George Needham at the inaugural Cumbria Opera Festival.

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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