Since her breakthrough performances as Tatyana in Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s production of Eugene Onegin in Baden Baden and Paris, the Slavonic repertoire and its heroines have become Orla Boylan’s international calling card.
Her critically-acclaimed interpretations of Janacek’s Jenufa and Katya Kabanova have taken her to Deutsche Oper, Berlin; Staatsoper Hamburg; Oper Köln; Opéra de Lyon; and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The more recent additions to her repertoire of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta for Opera Holland Park and Lisa (Pique Dame) for Komische Oper, Berlin, have met with equal success.
In addition, a series of title roles (Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos and most notably the British stage-premiere of Die Liebe der Danae) for Garsington Opera under Elgar Howarth have established Orla Boylan as a respected interpreter of Richard Strauss’s repertoire.
Biography
