Photo: Paul Foster-Williams
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.
On the operatic stage, Katherine has appeared in the roles of 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. Katherine also performed Virtu L’Incoronazione di Poppea for Glyndebourne on Tour, 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, Venus Venus & Adonis for Transition Opera, and Belinda in After Dido, a joint venture by ENO/The Young Vic of live music and film performance inspired by Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas directed by Katie Mitchell, conducted by Christian Curnyn. She appeared at the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival singing The Indian Queen with The Sixteen (Harry Christophers). Recent engagements include Lucia The Rape of Lucretia for Angers/Nantes Opera and Melanto/Amore The Return of Ulysses for English National Opera at The Young Vic.
Katherine’s engagements in 2011/2012 include her US stage debut as Oriana in the new production of Handel’s Amadigi for Central City Opera, Colorado, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with Capriccio Barockorchester, Saul with Daniel Reuss and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Maria The Sound of Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 at The Sage, Gateshead, Amadigi at the Wigmore Hall, Il Pastor Fido at St George's, Hanover Square and The Fairy Queen with the Gabrieli Consort.
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