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, Theater Bonn, Wexford Festival Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, and English National Opera.
Previous highlights in opera and concert include Bianca The Rape of Lucretia, and the covers of Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes, Margret Wozzeck, and Mary Der fliegende Holländer (Royal Opera); Ljubica Svadba and Gianetta L’elisir D’amore (Theater Bonn); Annina Der Rosenkavalier, and the Voice of Antonia’s Mother Les contes d'Hoffmann (Irish National Opera); Justices Lady The Critic (Wexford Festival 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 (Lyric Opera Ireland); 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); Kate Pinkerton Madame Butterfly (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra); The Angel Dream of Gerontius (National Concert Hall, Dublin); Handel’s Messiah (Ulster Orchestra); Dvorak Mass in D (Wexford Festival Orchestra); Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Bach’s cantata Ich habe genug (Esker Festival Orchestra); and Elgar’s Sea Pictures(Birr Arts Festival Orchestra).
Future engagements include Ksenia’s Nurse Boris Godunov (The Royal Opera), Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Blackwater Valley Opera Festival) and Mercedes Carmen and Ludmilla The Bartered Bride (Irish National Opera).