Lauded by The Guardian for her “dark and focused” voice, “sensational coloratura” and “spectacular singing” and by The Times for her “fierce, indeed terrifying, caneswishing” characterisations, Beth Taylor is one of today’s most electrifying young mezzo-sopranos.
Highlights in 2025/26: the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, the Munich Philharmonic, Munich Radio Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, and Bergen Philharmonic. She also appears in recital at Wigmore Hall, sings Speranza/L’Orfeo in Bilbao and a tour as Cornelia/Giulio Cesare with Il pomo d’oro to cities including Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona.
Past highlights include Cornelia and Bradamante/Alcina (Glyndebourne); Arsace/ Semiramide, Erda/Das Rheingold and La Cieca/ La Gioconda (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Giuliano Gordio/Eliogabalo (Opernhaus Zurich); Falliero/ Bianca e Falliero and Dardano/Amadigi di Gaula (Frankfurt); La Cenerentola (Nancy), Anna/Les Troyens (Salzburg Festival and BBC Proms); Cornelia (Carnegie Hall and Barbican Hall); Argia/La Merope ( Concertgebouw Amsterdam); and Sorceress/Dido and Aeneas (Madrid, Hamburg and Paris).
Beth Taylor is a grand finalist of the 2023 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, the winner of the 2022 Elizabeth Connell Award, 3rd prize winner of the 2019 Wigmore Hall Competition and winner of the 2018 Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Awards.
A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and The Open University, Beth Taylor’s teachers include Jennifer Larmore, Margaret Izatt and Iain Paton.