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Mezzo-soprano

Carolyn Holt

Dublin

Ireland

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Mezzo Carolyn Holt, praised for her “effortlessly effusive vocal power” (The Stage), is from a farming background in Ireland. In the 2022-23 season, for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, she performed the role of Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia, covered the role of Mrs Sedley in Deborah
Warner's 5-star production of Britten's Peter Grimes, and returns to cover the role of Margret in
Deborah Warner' s production of Wozzeck, conducted by Antonio Pappano. Elsewhere in the UK, she was seen as Mrs Grose in Britten's The Turn of the Screw for Garsington Opera, to great critical
acclaim – Opera Today wrote “Her voice shone with a maturity perfectly matching the role". Previously for Garsington Opera, she has performed the role of Madame Larina in Eugene Onegin as an Opera First Alvarez Young Artist. In Ireland, she performed the role of Charlotte in Lyric Opera
Ireland's production of Werther at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, and the role of Annina in Irish National Opera’s production of Der Rosenkavalier.
Her previous engagements in the UK include the role of Sister Helen Prejean in the UK staged
premiere of Dead Man Walking in Glasgow, for which Opera Magazine wrote: “Carolyn Holt’s Sister
Helen was impeccably sung, sensitively acted and never less than sincere”, Prince Orlofsky in Die
Fledermaus, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, and she looks forward to her Wagner debut as Mary in The Flying Dutchman, and Minskwoman in Jonathan Dove’s Flight in 2023.
She was the winner of the Dermot Troy Prize for the best Irish singer in the 2019 Veronica Dunne
International Singing Competition, a competition which in 2020 again awarded her a €5000 prize in
their inaugural bursary. In concert, Carolyn she toured Ireland singing Mahler&#39;s Lieder eines
fahrenden Gesellen, performed Elgar’s Sea Pictures with Lambeth Orchestra, The Angel in Elgar’s
Dream of Gerontius, and Messiah at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast. She is invited regularly as soloist
with choral societies throughout the UK and Ireland where critics acclaim her “wonderfully dark, rich tone”

English

Public

The Knight of the Rose

Octavian

The Tales of Hoffmann

La voix de la mère/La voix de la tombe

Messiah HWV 56

Alto

Dead Man Walking

Sister Helen Prejean

Choir

The Second Violinist

Dido and Aeneas

Dido

Street Scene

Emma Jones

Eugene Onegin

Larina

The Gondoliers

Inez

Werther

Charlotte

The Rape of Lucretia

Bianca

Wozzeck

Margret

Peter Grimes

Mrs. (Nabob) Sedley

Flight

Minsk woman

The Flying Dutchman (arr. Maxwell, Bowler & Wallington)

Helm/Mari

Hansel and Gretel

Gertrud

The Turn of the Screw

Mrs Grose

Vagabones

Florence Newton

Die Knusperhexe

Stewardess

The Twilight of the Gods

Waltraute

Julius Caesar in Egypt

Cornelia

The Handmaid's Tale

Serena Joy

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