Carolyn Holt
Mezzo Soprano
Recipient of the Dermot Troy Prize at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Irish Mezzo-Soprano Carolyn Holt studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Alexander Gibson Opera School, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music, London.
Carolyn Holt | Wie du warst | Ariadne auf Naxos
Carolyn Hotl | I bought this suitcase in New York - Minskwoman's Aria | Flight | Dove
Praised for her “rich and seductive mezzo-soprano” she has performed with companies such as The Royal Opera House, Irish National Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, and English National Opera.
Previous engagements include Bianca The Rape of Lucretia (Royal Opera House); Annina Der Rosenkavalier, and the Voice of Antonia’s Mother Les contes d'Hoffmann (Irish National Opera); Mrs Grose The Turn of the Screw, and Madame Larina Eugene Onegin (Garsington Opera); Maddalena Rigoletto (New Opera Singapore); Cornelia Giulio Cesare (Blackwater Valley Opera Festival); Gertrude Hansel und Gretel and Charlotte Werther (Lyric Opera Ireland/National Concert Hall); Minskwoman Flight, and Florence Newton ‘The Witch of Youghal’ in the world premiere of Raymond Deane's Vagabones (Opera Collective Ireland); Sister Helen Prejean Dead Man Walking, Dido Dido & Aeneas and Mrs Jones Street Scene (RCS); and Mezzo Soloist Elsewhere (Once Off productions). Subsequent roles include Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes, Margret Wozzeck, Mary Der fliegende Holländer, Kitchen Boy Rusalka, and Donna Elvira Don Giovanni.
On the concert platform Carolyn is in demand as a soloist with orchestras and choral societies throughout the UK and Ireland. Previous highlights include The Angel Dream of Gerontius (National Concert Hall, Dublin); Handel’s Messiah (Ulster Orchestra/Waterfront Hall); Dvorak Mass in D (Wexford Festival Orchestra); Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Bach’s cantata Ich habe genug (Esker Festival Orchestra); Elgar’s Sea Pictures (Birr Arts Festival Orchestra). Further concert repertoire includes Bach’s St. John Passion, and Christmas Oratorio, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony; Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Kindertotenlieder; Mendelssohn’s Elijiah; Mozart Requiem; and Chilcott’s Christmas Oratorio.
Future engagements see her make debuts at the Royal Opera House, Theater Bonn, Wexford Festival Opera, and with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.