Soprano
Celine Byrne
La bohèmeBiography
Celine Byrne, who won First Prize and gold medal at the Maria Callas International Grand Prix in Athens in 2007 is an INO Artistic Partner and made her company debut in the title role of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in 2019. Other INO appearances include the Marschallin in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, and Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen. Other recent performances include Madama Butterfly (Bregenz Festival), Magda in Puccini’s La rondine (Minnesota Opera), Madama Butterfly (Staatstheater Kassel), Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier (Santiago), Marietta/Marie in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt (RTÉ NSO), Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Israeli Opera), the title role in Puccini’s Tosca (Mikhailovsky Opera, St Petersburg), Liù in Puccini’s Turandot (Oper Leipzig and Deutsche Oper am Rhein), Elisabeth in Verdi’s Don Carlo (Deutsche Oper am Rhein) and Mimì in La bohéme (Hamburg State Opera). She made her operatic debut in 2010 as Mimì with Scottish Opera in a production that also came to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin. She made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in Dvořák’s Rusalka in 2012, taking over the role at short notice. She returned to sing First Flower Maiden in Wagner’s Parsifal followed by Micaëla in Carmen. Future engagements include a tour of the US with Barry Douglas to include Carnegie Hall in New Yori, Mimì in Lucerne and at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and Madama Butterfly at Zurich Opera House. Her INO recording of La bohème is available from Signum Records.
June 2023