Soprano
Caroline Behan
Madama Butterfly, The Cunning Little VixenBiography
Caroline, a native of Kill, Co. Kildare, is a member of the Irish National Opera Company Chorus. She is a graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, where she studied with Mary Brennan, Dearbhla Collins and Elizabeth Ritchie. Caroline has performed with Irish National Opera, Opera Collective Ireland, Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and Lyric Opera Productions, along with performances in the UK and Europe. Her operatic roles include Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème, Humpty Dumpty/Dormouse in Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Venus in Purcell’s King Arthur, Serpina in Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona, Giunone in Cavalli’s La Calisto and Damigella in Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. Concert engagements include soloist at the Manchester premiere of Bernstein’s Mass at Bridgewater Hall and the ‘Joyce in Music’ Recital for Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco. In oratorio, Caroline’s repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation and Stanford’s Mass in G. Inaugural winner of the Song Prize at Northern Ireland’s Glenarm Festival of Voice, Caroline has also won the Dramatic Cup and Quigley Awards at Feis Ceoil.
Jan 2026