Soprano
Celine Byrne
Madama ButterflyBiography
Celine has performed with Irish National Opera as Cio-Cio San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, and the Marschallin in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. She made her operatic début in 2010 as Mimì in La bohème with Scottish Opera. In 2012 she made her Royal Ballet and Opera House London debut in Dvořák’s Rusalka, Micaëla in Carmen and Liù in Puccini’s Turandot. Other roles include Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in Bregenzer Festspiele, Opéra national de Bordeaux and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Liù in Puccini's Turandot with Oper in Steinbruch, Magda in Puccini’s La Rondine with Minnesota Opera, Floria Tosca in Puccini’s Tosca with Mikhailovsky Opera, St. Petersburg, Liù in Turandot and Elisabetta in Verdi’s Don Carlo in Leipzig and Deutsche Oper am Rhein as well as Madama Butterfly with Staatstheater Kassel, Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier in Santiago and Marietta/Marie in Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt and Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème with Hamburgische Staatsoper. Future engagements include concerts with José Carreras, Andrea Bocelli, a tour of the USA with Barry Douglas and Camerata Ireland, concerts with Éimear Noone including performances at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Bamberg, Germany, Celine’s Christmas Celebration with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs with National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, followed by performances in Puccini’s Il tabarro at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and Tosca at Oper in Steinbruch.
October 2025