Mezzo-soprano
Carolyn Holt
The Bartered BrideBiography
Carolyn has previously performed with Irish National Opera as The Voice of Antonia’s Mother in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, and as Annina in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Recipient of the Dermot Troy Prize at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Carolyn studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music, London. She has performed with companies including Royal Ballet and Opera London, Theater Bonn, Welsh National Opera, New Opera Singapore, Wexford Festival Opera, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Opera, and English National Opera. Previous highlights include Bianca in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia (Royal Ballet and Opera); Mrs Grose in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, and Madame Larina in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Garsington Opera); Gertrude in Humperdink’s Hansel und Gretel (Lyric Opera Ireland); Cornelia in Handel’s Guilio Cesare (Blackwater Valley Opera Festival); and the Minskwoman in Jonathan Dove’s Flight (Opera Collective Ireland).
November 2025