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UK resident
Caroline Taylor graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with Distinction. She won the Kennedy Strauss Award, the Emmy Destinn Award for Czech Opera and Song and the 2023 Off West End Opera 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 and a Making Music Recommended Artist for 2024-2026
Praised for her “glittering soprano” (The Times), Caroline’s upcoming season includes Fauré’s Requiem and Poulenc’s Gloria at the Caird Hall, Mozart’s Requiem at the Oxford International Song Festival and a European recital tour with duo partner Sebastian Issler. 2023/2024 highlights included Caroline’s recital debut at the Royal Opera House accompanied by Fran Hills, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (Peri) at the Caird Hall and a solo recital with acclaimed collaborative pianist Roger Vignoles at Goldsmiths’ Hall.
Opera credits include La Musica/L’Orfeo (Longborough Festival Opera), Adina/The Elixir of Love (Duchy Opera), Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi (RNCM Opera) and Governess/The Turn of the Screw (Byre Opera). In 2022, Caroline made her role debut as Asteria in a new English translation of Händel’s Tamerlano with Cambridge Handel Opera, later jumping in to sing the role in the original Italian at the Grange Festival in Hampshire to considerable acclaim.
Concert highlights include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater (Northern Chamber Orchestra), Britten’s Les Illuminations (Northern Ballet Sinfonia), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (Bridgewater Hall) and solo performances at Wigmore Hall and Oxford International Song Festival.
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