Mezzo-Soprano

Doreen Curran

MARS

Biography

Derry-born mezzo-soprano Doreen Curran made her debut with Irish National Opera as Suzuki in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, and has also performed for INO in Evangelia Rigaki’s The Gift (20 Shots of Opera) and Old Ghosts, Richard Strauss’s Elektra and Salome, and Brian Irvine’s The Scorched Earth Trilogy. Other opera roles include the title role in Handel’s Radamisto (NI Opera), Ottavia in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (English National Opera, Opera Theatre Company, Aldeburgh and Buxton Festivals), Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Garsington Opera and Savoy Opera), Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Opera Holland Park), Kate in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (English National Opera), Mother in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Mrs Noye in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, Mary in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, Lady Macbeth’s Lady in Waiting in Verdi’s Macbeth (NI Opera), and Third Secretary in John Adams’s Nixon in China (Wide Open Opera).  

July 2025