Katharine Taylor-Jones has appeared with many companies in the UK and abroad including Opera North, English National Opera, Opera della Luna, D’Oyly Carte and the Bregenzer Festspiele.
OPERA
Recent operatic roles include Marsha Birkenfield (The Marquise de Berkenfield) in Opera della Luna’s production of La Fille du Regiment at Buxton International Festival and at Wilton’s Music Hall in London. She also appeared as Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia at the Arcola Theatre for the Grimeborn festival. Also for Opera della Luna: Marchioness in the UK premiere of Johann Strauss’ The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief, at Wilton’s Hall, London; and Public Opinion in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld at Iford Festival and at The Lowry, Salford Quays. Other roles include Rossweisse in Die Walkure for Berwick Festival Opera, The Marquise de Berkenfeld in La Fille du Regiment (Opera Della Luna) at Iford, Mrs Noye (Noye’s Fludde) and Anna (Tobias and the Angel), both roles for Highbury Opera Theatre; Frau Schulz in Mendelssohn’s rarely performed Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde with Ryedale Festival Opera, and Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre in London.
Katharine has also played the title role in Carmen; Marcellina (The Marriage of Figaro); Berta (The Barber of Seville); The Mother (Menotti’s The Consul); French Mother (Death in Venice) and Allure (Playing Away) for the Aldeburgh Festival and the Bregenzer Festspiele, Austria.
She appeared with D’Oyly Carte at the Savoy Theatre in the West End, performing in Yeoman of The Guard, Iolanthe and HMS Pinafore. At The Buxton Opera House she has performed the roles of Leila (Iolanthe); and Inez and Vittoria (The Gondolier)s with The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company; and Pitti-Sing (The Mikado) for Carl Rosa Opera Company in the USA.
In addition, Katharine has narrated Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale for Hand Made Opera, and Walton’s Façade for both The Opera Project and Hand Made Opera.
Other recent projects include Elgar’s ‘Sea Pictures’, a recording project (Havergal Brian) with English National Opera, leading music theatre workshops in London as well as for Celebrate Voice Festival in Salisbury, and for Werkitt Productions in London, guest soloist in three concerts with Read’s Warblers in Yorkshire at Christmas, and a celebration of Words and Music at Walpole Chapel in Suffolk.
CONCERTS AND ORATORIO
Katharine’s extensive oratorio and concert experience as an alto soloist includes B Minor Mass (Bach), Requiems by Mozart, Durufle, Faure and M Haydn; Mass in C and Missa Brevis (Mozart), The Dream of Gerontius and Sea Pictures (Elgar), Elijah (Mendelssohn), Vespers (Rachmaninov), The Messiah (Handel), Serenade to Music (Vaughan Williams), and the Nelson Mass (Haydn).