Doreen Curran is represented by Rayfield Allied worldwide.

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Doreen Curran

Mezzo-soprano

  • Doreen Curran could hardly be bettered as the gold-digging Blanche
    Hugh Canning, Sunday Times
  • Doreen Curran sang with thrilling intensity as Nero’s wronged wife Ottavia
    Richard Morrison, The Times
  • Doreen Curran’s Ottavia – all spite and sexy suspenders – is clearly a Poppea in the making
    Andrew Clark, Financial Times

  • Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Doreen Curran studied music at the DIT College of Music Dublin, Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio.

    Operatic roles include Ottavia L’incoronazione di Poppea for English National Opera, Mercedes Carmen for Glyndebourne Opera on Tour, Farnace at the Landestheater Salzburg, Blanche The Gambler for Grange Park Opera, Zoë La Fiamma, Ernestina L’occasione F ail Ladro and Penelope Clione for Wexford Festival Opera, Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro for Garsington Opera, Dorabella Cosi fan tutte for Opera Holland Park, Ottavia L’incoronazione di Poppea and Bradamante Alcina at the Aldeburgh and Buxton Festivals, Rosina The Barber of Seville for Opera Theatre Company, Rodelinda for Iford Opera and Mother Hansel and Gretel at NI Opera.

    Doreen Curran sings regularly in concert, and her repertoire ranges from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Verdi’s Requiem, to Elgar’s Sea Pictures. She has performed with the National Symphony of Ireland, RTE Concert Orchestra, European Youth Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Ulster Orchestra. She gives regular Lieder recitals throughout Ireland and England.

    Doreen Curran is represented worldwide by Andrew Rosner at Rayfield Allied.
    This biography is for information only and should not be reproduced.

    • Flying Dutchman
      NI Opera

      a workhouse for the spinning scene, supervised by a fearsome Frau Mary (a sharply etched cameo from Doreen Curran)
      Hugh Canning, Sunday Times

  • Doreen Curran Opera Repertoire

    BELLINI
    • I Capuletti e Montecchi (Romeo)
    BIZET
    • Carmen (Mercedes / Carmen)
    BRTTEN
    • Rape of Lucretia (Lucretia) Albert Herring (Nancy)
    • Midsummer nights dream (Hippolyta and Hermia)
    FAURÉ
    • Penelope (Clione)
    GOUNOD
    • Romeo et Juliette (Stephano)
    HANDEL
    • Alcina (Ruggiero*)
    • Giulio Cesare (Sesto)
    • Theodora (Irene)
    MASSANET
    • Cendrillon (Dorothy)
    MASCAGNI
    • Cavalleria Rusticana (Lola)
    MONTEVERDI
    • Orfeo (Speranza)
    • L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Ottavia)
    MOZART
    • Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino)
    • Cosi fan tutte (Dorabella)
    • Don Giovanni (Zerlina)
    • La Clemenza di Tito (Annio)
    • Die Zauberflöte (Second Lady)
    MUSSORGSKY
    • Boris Godunov (Fyodor)
    OFFENBACH
    • Tales Of Hoffmann (Nicklausse)
    PUCCINI
    • Madame Butterfly (Kate Pinkerton) Gianni Schicci (Ciesca)
    PURCELL
    • Dido and Aeneas (Dido)
    RESPIGHI
    • La Fiamma (Zoe)
    ROSSINI
    • Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina)
    • La Cenerentola (Cenerentola)
    • L’Occasione fa il Ladro (Ernestina)
    SULLIVAN
    • Pirates of Penzance (Kate)
    TCHAIKOVSKY
    • Queen of Spades (Polina)
    • Eugene Onegin (Olga)
    VERDI
    • Falstaff (Meg Page)
    • Rigoletto (Magdalena)

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