Orla Boylan

Current season highlights include important role debuts as Chrysothemis (Elektra) for West Australian Opera and Senta (The Flying Dutchman) for ENO and a new production of Pique Dame for Opera North. Concert highlights include Mahler Symphony No. 8 with Gürzenich-Orchester Köln under Markus Stenz.

Other roles have included Arabella, Ariadne and Danae (in the British stage-premiere of Die Liebe der Danae) for Garsington Opera under Elgar Howarth, Aufseherin (Elektra) at the Salzburg Festival under Daniele Gatti, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) for Teatro Communale di Bologna, Blanche Dubois in the Irish premiere of Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire with Opera Ireland, and Madame Lidoine (The Carmelites) for ENO. Britten roles include Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) for West Australian Opera, Governess (The Turn of the Screw) with Angers-Nantes Opéra, and Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia) with ENO and New York City Opera. After making her debut as Sieglinde in Phyllida Lloyd’s ENO staging of The Valkyrie, Orla Boylan recently returned to the role in David McVicar’s new staging with Opéra national du Rhin under Marko Leontja.