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The English soprano, Katherine Manley, began her musical training at Leicester Arts In Education. Here she participated in various ensembles and choirs such as the Leicester Bach Choir and the Chanterelles, performing in venues including the Royal Albert hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. For four years (1997-2001) she was scholar studying at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, where she was chosen as the young singer to represent the college in the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary. She appeared in master-classes with
Benjamin Luxon, Roger Vignoles and recently with Sarah Walker. She took part of college opera performances of
W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni,
Così fan tutte and Georges Bizet's
Carmen. She contined her postgraduate training at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School and
on the Diploma Course at the Royal College of Music in London.
As a soloist Katherine Manley has worked with both amateur and professional performances of oratorio and as a member of the RSAMD Chamber Choir performed with the
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Her early engagements included work with Opera Holland Park, and singing in
George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Nelson Mass, and an orchestral recital in Cambridge of
Benjamin Britten's Les Illuminations.
In past seasons Katherine Manley has been a popular guest artist at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, featuring in the leading roles of Eliza Doolittle, in Robert Carson's My Fair Lady, & Maria
in The Sound of Music. Recent seasons include the world premier’s of BlankOut, by Michel Van der Aa, Greece, Helsinki, China and Germany. The Last Hotel
by Donnacha Dennehy (music) and Enda Walsh (text) at the Edinburgh Festival, London Covent Garden and New York St Ann's Warehouse and most recently performing and recording Dennehy's revised score of The Hunger with Nonesuch Records, in BAM, New York, the Kennedy Center Washington DC, St Louis Opera, and the MMCF with contemporary ensemble Alarm Will Sound, and in Ireland with Crash Ensemble. She revisited the role of Zenna Briggs
in Van der Aa's Sunken Garden which she created at English National Opera 2013, at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Essen Philharmonie, and for Dallas Opera.
In addition to her growing reputation in the contemporary operatic repertoire, Katherine Manley is already established as an outstanding performer of Baroque music. She played Creuse
in David McVicar’s production of Charpentier’s Medée, ENO. Atalanta, Serses for HändelFestSpiele, Badisches Staats Theatre. A number of Monteverdi roles include the title role in Poppea, conducted by Christian Curnyn. She made her USA stage debut as Oriana
in G.F. Handel's Amadigi for Central City Opera, Colorado.
Her concert engagements include Judith Weir’s Natural History for Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele. Max Richter’s Memoryhouse, with the
BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican. Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
with Barockorchester Capriccio Basel,
G.F. Handel's Saul with
Daniel Reuss, Heitor Villa-Lobos'
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 at The Sage, Northern Sinfonia. She has sung Jephtha with
The King's Consort, & Israel in Egypt
on tour with Musik Podium Stuttgart.
Katherine Manley currently sings the role of Pat Nixon, in John Adams’ Nixon in China with Stuttgart Opera, Pamina in
W.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Central City Opera, & Asenath Nicholson in Dennehy’s The Hunger. Future engagements /production revivals take her to Taiwan, Ireland, New York,
Berlin and Boston. |
