Soprano
Giselle Allen
The Flying Dutchman, RusalkaBiography
Northern Irish soprano Giselle Allen has garnered a reputation for dramatic role portrayals, establishing a versatile career with leading international opera houses and orchestras. She performed Senta in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and the title role in Richard Strauss’s Elektra for Irish National Opera. Her other career highlights to date include Marie in Berg’s Wozzeck (Canadian Opera Company); Third Norn in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung (Opernhaus Zürich); Miss Jessel in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (Opernhaus Zürich; La Monnaie; Opéra National de Lyon; Glyndebourne); Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s Pikovaya Dama (English National Opera); Praskov’ya Osipovna in Shostakovich’s The Nose (La Monnaie); Senta in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (Northern Ireland Opera); Gutrune, Gerhilde and Freia in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (Opera North); title role in Strauss’s Salome (Opera North; Northern Ireland Opera); Ellen Orford in Britten’s Peter Grimes (Komische Oper Berlin; Bergen International Festival; Opera North; Aldeburgh Festival); Magda Sorel in Menotti’s The Consul (Welsh National Opera); The Duchess in Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face (Northern Ireland Opera); Puccini’s Tosca (Opera Australia; Opera North); Mila in Janáček’s Osud and Santuzza in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana (Opera North); Wellgunde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Gutrune Götterdämmerung (Covent Garden Festival); Parasya in Mussorgsky’s Sorochyntsi Fair (Singapore). She has performed with conductors Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Marin Alsop, Gianandrea Noseda, Richard Farnes, Edward Gardner, Jac van Steen and Ben Glassberg. Forthcoming engagements see her make her return to the Royal Ballet & Opera for the 2027/28 season to perform Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre.
March 2026