ABOUT
Scottish mezzo-soprano Katie Coventry, starts the 2024/25 season with her role début as Marchesa Melibea in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims at the Salzburger Landestheater. Other roles this season in Salzburg include Hänsel, Hänsel und Gretel and L’Ajutanta maggiora in Salieri’s Il mondo alla rovescia and she sings Mignon’s Connais-tu le pays at Das Große Silvesterkonzert in the Großes Festspielhaus on New Year’s Eve.
Last season, Katie made a series of role débuts at the Salzburger Landestheater as Rosina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cecilio, Lucio Silla and Daisy, Anthropocene as well as reprising the role of Prinz Orlofsky.
The 2022/23 season saw Katie sing the roles of Maffio Orsini, Lucrezia Borgia for English Touring Opera, Aminta, Il Re Pastore for Buxton International Festival and Offred, The Handmaid’s Tale for The Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen (cover). She also sang Scott of the Antarctic with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Manze and with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Martyn Brabbins.
In the 2021/22 season, Katie made her début at the Nederlandse Reisopera in the role of Sesto Giulio Cesare in Egitto; a production which then transferred to the Händelfestspiele Göttingen. She also covered the role of Offred in English National Opera’s The Handmaid’s Tale and performed Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antartica with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Later that season, Katie made her delayed début with the Hallé Orchestra as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly before returning to the Glyndebourne Festival covering Ruggiero in Alcina, stepping in to sing three performances, marking her stage début with them. Previous cover roles at Glyndebourne include Zaida in Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Annio in La clemenza di Tito.
In summer 2020, Katie returned to the Salzburger Festspiele singing the role of Zweite Magd in Strauss’s Elektra under the direction of Krzysztof Warlikowski and baton of Franz Welser-Möst.
As a previous Harewood Artist, Katie has a close relationship with ENO. She made her ENO début as Edith in Pirates of Penzance and in 2017 made her role début there as Cherubino. Previous roles include Second Woman/Second Fury in Harrison Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus, covering the title role of Marnie whilst singing Shadow Marnie 2 and Kitchen Boy in Rusalka. The Rusalka production was due to transfer to the Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, which would have been Katie’s house début, however this was unfortunately affected by the pandemic.
During the 2018/19 season, Katie was part of the ensemble at the Salzburger Landestheater. Roles there included Rosette Manon, Doralice La Gazzetta, Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Dorabella Così fan tutti and Washerwoman/Frau Graubach in Philip Glass’ The Trial. Other recent engagements include her House début at the Teatro Real, Madrid as Jennie Hildebrand in Street Scene and the Second Soprano Soloist in Mozart’s C minor mass, with Sir Roger Norrington and the Camerata Salzburg.
A participant of the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singer Project in 2018, Katie is a recent graduate from the Royal College of Music International Opera School where she studied with Tim Evans-Jones as an Independent Opera Voice Scholar. Her roles for RCMIOS include Ramiro La Finta Giardiniera, Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel, Prince Orlofsky Die Fledermaus, Nancy Albert Herring and L’Écureuil and La Chatte L’enfant et les sortilèges. Other roles include Ariodante Ariodante (London Handel Festival), Kate Julian Owen Wingrave, The Fox The Cunning Little Vixen (British Youth Opera), Mazet La Colombe (Opera Danube/ West Green House Opera) and Stephano Roméo et Juliette(Opera Bearwood).
Katie was a finalist for the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition, the winner of the 2017 Joaninha Award and is also an Independent Opera Voice Fellow.
On the concert platform, Katie has performed in such works as the Mozart Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall, Duruflé Requiem at Southwark Cathedral, Haydn Nelson Mass at Riga Dom and numerous other oratorio works at St James’ Piccadilly and St Martin-in-the-Fields. Other concert works include Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Vladimir Jurowski and the RCM Symphony Orchestra.
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Cara Speme
Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Händelfestspiele Göttingen, 2022