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Praised for her “glittering soprano” (The Times), British soprano Caroline Taylor began the 2023/2024 season with her recital debut at the Royal Opera House. Caroline 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 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.
Caroline is a former Leeds Lieder Young Artist and Concordia Foundation Artist, with whom she made her solo debuts at St James’s Piccadilly and St Martin in the Fields. She previously read French, Italian and Spanish at the University of St Andrews, where she received the Cedric Thorpe Davie Memorial Prize for outstanding musical contribution.
Opera credits include Asteria/Tamerlano (Cambridge Handel Opera), Adina/The Elixir of Love (Duchy Opera) and Kate/The Yeomen of the Guard at the Grange Festival, where Caroline also jumped in to sing Asteria to considerable acclaim. Concert highlights include Britten’s Les Illuminations (Northern Ballet Sinfonia), Mahler’s Symphony No 8 at the Bridgewater Hall and solo performances at Wigmore Hall and Oxford Lieder.
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