Margaret Plummer

Mezzo-soprano

Australian mezzo-soprano Margaret Plummer has been engaged as a principal artist at the Vienna State Opera for the past seven years.

During this time Margaret has performed a vast range of repertoire for the company including Hansel/Hansel and Gretel, Mercedes/Carmen, Waltraute/Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung, Flosshilde/Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, Dritte Norn/Götterdämmerung, Blumenmädchen/Parsifal, Siebel/Faust, Varvara/Katya Kabanova, Tebaldo/Don Carlos, Page/Salome, Fenena/Nabucco, Meg Page/Falstaff also for Hamburg State Opera, Tisbe/La Cenerentola, Hermia/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wood Sprite/Rusalka and Fjodor/Boris Godunov.

Prior to her move to Austria in 2015, Margaret performed extensively with Opera Australia including performances in Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour as well as in regional touring productions. 

She has also been engaged as Charlotte/Werther and Marguerite/La damnation du Faust for the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Vienna Philharmonic, Berg’s Seven Early Songs with the Tirol Symphony Orchestra, as Hexe/Hansel and Gretel with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, as Phoebe/Castor et Pollux and Diane/Iphigenie en Tauride for Pinchgut Opera, and as Dorabella/Così fan tutte for Pacific Opera.

Previously for Longborough: title role/Carmen (2022)