Lauded by The Guardian for her “dark and focused” voice, “sensational coloratura” and “spectacular singing” and by The Times for her “fierce, indeed terrifying, cane-swishing” characterisations, Beth Taylor is one of today’s most electrifying young mezzo-sopranos.
In the 2025/26 season, Beth performs with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors: 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) at Glyndebourne; Arsace (Semiramide), Erda (Das Rheingold) and La Cieca (La Gioconda) for Deutsche Oper Berlin; Giuliano Gordio (Eliogabalo) at Opernhaus Zurich; Falliero (Bianca e Falliero) and Dardano (Amadigi di Gaula) in Frankfurt; La Cenerentola in Nancy, Anna (Les Troyens) at the Salzburg Festival and BBC Proms; Cornelia at Carnegie Hall and Barbican Hall; Argia (La Merope) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam; and Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas) in Madrid, Hamburg and Paris.
Other appearances on the concert platform include Beethoven’s Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko in Baden-Baden, Mahler’s Third with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Das Lied von der Erde with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, her Canadian debut with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and appearances at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
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.