Caroline Taylor graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with Distinction, where she won the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for Singing of Strauss. A keen performer of Czech repertoire, she won the 2021 Emmy Destinn Award for Czech Opera and Song and shares the 2023 Off West End Opera Performance Award with Hampstead Garden Opera for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, in which she played the title role.
Praised for her ‘glittering soprano’ (The Times), Caroline now enjoys an occasional performance schedule alongside other work. Opera credits include Asteria/Tamerlano Cambridge Handel Opera), Adina/The Elixir of Love (Duchy Opera; King’s Head Theatre), Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi (RNCM Opera) and Kate/ The Yeomen of the Guard at the Grange Festival, where Caroline also jumped in to sing Asteria to considerable acclaim. Concert highlights include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater (Northern Chamber Orchetsra), Britten’s Les Illuminations (Northern Ballet Sinfonia), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Bridgewater Hall and solo performances at Wigmore Hall and Oxford Lieder.
Prior to her musical studies, Caroline completed an MA (Hons) in French, Italian and Spanish at the University of St Andrews, graduating as the recipient of the Cedric Thorpe Davie Memorial Prize for outstanding musical contribution.