Julianne Young
Born in Scotland, Julianne grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, where she studied at the South African College of Music, completing her five years with a first-class Honours Degree. In 1999 she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London. During her studies, with Lillian Watson, prizes included the Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the John McCormack Golden Voice Competition in Ireland.
Opera roles include Mother Goose and Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress, both for La Monnaie and Lyon, Waltraute Die Walküre at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Alcina Orlando furioso with Jean-Christophe Spinosi and the Ensemble Matheus in Turin and Bremen, the Sorceress Dido and Aeneas in her debut at La Scala, Milan (understudy Dido), Angelina La Cenerentola in Frankfurt and Cologne, Tisbe and title role La Cenerentola for Welsh National Opera, Polly Peachum The Beggar’s Opera in Bari, Italy, Idamante Idomeneo for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel and Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera North, Second Lady Die Zauberflöte for Welsh National Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival, Edith Pirates of Penzance for English National Opera and Popova The Bear for Clonter Opera. Earlier roles include Jocasta Oedipus Rex, Hippolyta A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Adalberto Ottone, Vitige Flavio, Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress, Komponist Ariadne auf Naxos (all RCM), Phoebe The Yeoman of the Guard (British Youth Opera), cover Ruggiero Alcina for English National Opera and cover Nancy Albert Herring for Glyndebourne Touring Opera.
Julianne is a keen recitalist and has performed at the Wigmore Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Barbican. Oratorio work includes Britten’s Praise we great Men with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo at the Aldeburgh Festival, Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall with Sir David Willcocks, and Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions at St. John’s Smith Square, the latter with Peter Schreier. She has worked with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Festival Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra, to name but a few.
Engagements in 2008 include Tisbe La Cenerentola for Gran Teatr del Liceu, Barcelona, Baba the Turk The Rake's Progress for Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Die Walküre at the Salzburg Festival, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and Opera Galas for Castleward Opera. Subsequent engagements include Mother Goose The Rake’s Progress for Teatro Real, Madrid and for Teatro alla Scala, Milan.
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Email: Lucy Goddard
