Katherine Manley
Representation: General Management
Born in Leicestershire, Katherine Manley studied at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School at the Royal College of Music, London and graduated in 2006. A Samling Foundation and Susan Chilcott Scholar, Katherine has been supported by a Wingate Scholarship, Ian Fleming MBF Award and an Independent Opera Fellowship.
In concert she has worked with the OAE, the London Mozart Players and the Philharmonia Orchestra performing at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, St John’s Smith Square and at the Wigmore Hall, London. Recent repertoire includes Mendelssohn Elijah with Sir Thomas Allen under Simon Over, Mozart Coronation Mass under Sir David Willcocks and Acshah in Handel’s Joshua at the London Handel Festival with Laurence Cummings. Katherine also took part in L’Academie d’Aix en Provence and sang in the Felicja Blumental Music Festival, Tel Aviv. Song recitals include Frauenliebe und Leben for the Tudeley Festival and a duet recital in Belgium.
Operatic roles include Arpago L’Incoronazione di Dario and Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Garsington Opera, Fortune L’Incoronazione di Poppea for English National Opera, Sandman/Dew Fairy Hänsel und Gretel for Opera North, Musica/Euridice in Monteverdi’s Orfeo for English Touring Opera and Seleuce Tolomeo for London Handel Players, Tullia under Maurizio Benini with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Opera Rara’s recording of Mercadante’s Virginia, and title role in Handel’s Partenope for Les Azuriales Opera Festival. Further engagements include Dafne in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne and the cantata Selete Venti with Retrospect Ensemble at the Wigmore Hall, Seleuce Tolomeo and Dalinda Ariodante for English Touring Opera, Messiah at Waterfront Hall, Belfast for the Ulster Orchestra and St Matthew Passion at Bath Abbey, Venus Venus & Adonis for Transition Opera, Belinda in After Dido, a joint venture by ENO/The Young Vic conducted by Christian Curnyn, Caro, Dolce a recital of duets and arias for the London Handel Festival, Jephtha for The King’s Consort in Switzerland and Israel in Egypt on tour with Musik Podium Stuttgart.
Engagements in 2010/2011 include a Purcell/Handel/Vivaldi concert with the Academy of Ancient Music, The Indian Queen with The Sixteen (Harry Christophers) at the Edinburgh International Festival, Messiah at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival (Paul McCreesh), Virtu L’Incoronazione di Poppea for Glyndebourne on Tour, Lucia The Rape of Lucretia for Angers/Nantes Opera and Melanto/Juno/Amore The Return of Ulysses for English National Opera at The Young Vic. Katherine makes her US stage debut as Oriana in the new production of Handel’s Amadigi for Central City Opera, Colorado in summer 2011. Subsequent engagements include Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with Capriccio Basel.
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