Celine Byrne

Irish singer Celine Byrne was born in Naas, Ireland, and completed her musical studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music as well as the Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin. Coaching lessons led her to the National Opera Studio of London, Christa Ludwig, Wolfgang Holzmair and Malcolm Martineau amongst others. She has appeared at some of the world´s most prestigious opera and concert venues including Carnegie Hall, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Mikhailovsky Theater, Tchaikovsky Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing, National Concert Hall Dublin or Turkish Culture and Congress Centre Lüfti. A frequent concert performer, Celine became familiar to international audiences early on through her collaborations with José Carreras, Roberto Alagna and Joseph Calleja performing in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Istanbul, Rotterdam, Linköping, Malmö, Munich, Berlin, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nuremberg, Hamburg and Zadar. Further inspiration she owes to Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sascha Goetzel, Alexander Soddy and Barry Douglas.

Celine has toured extensively throughout Europe as well as in the US, China, Russia and Mexico. Over the past years, she has increasingly graced opera stages. She made her highly acclaimed operatic debut as Mimì in Scottish Opera’s 2010 production of La Bohème. In March 2012, Celine made her debut at Covent Garden standing-in for Camilla Nylund as Rusalka under the baton of Yannick Nézét-Séguin. During the same period, she also covered the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Covent Garden. Celine opened the 2012-13 season at Stadttheater Klagenfurt as Agathe in Der Freischütz under Alexander Soddy followed by Micaëla in Carmen with the Moscow State Opera and Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at Lismore Music Festival in spring 2013. Other noteworthy recent engagements include concerts with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Richard Strauss´ Four Last Songs in Klagenfurt, Austria, and Mahler’s Rückert Lieder at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

Celine concluded 2013 with a brilliant return visit to the Royal Opera House in December as First Flower Maiden in Parsifal under Antonio Pappano which earned her a Royal Opera House contract as Micaëla in 2015. Other upcoming opera engagements include her role debut as Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier under Patrik Ringborg at Staatstheater Kassel in fall 2014 or Mimì in La Bohème with the Moscow State Opera in Dublin and Moscow in April 2015.

Celine has been awarded many awards, amongst them the Margaret Burke-Sheridan Gold Medal in 2009, First Prize and Gold Medal at the Maria Callas Grand Prix as well as the William Young Prize at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition in 2007 and the Brabants Dagblad Press Prize’ at the IVC International Singing Competition in s’Hertogenbosch.

Celine Byrne’s extensive repertoire includes opera, operetta, oratorio and songs. Important works she has performed on a concert level are Messiah, Fauré´s Requiem, Mozart´s Mass in C and Requiem, St. Paul and Elijah by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Gustav Mahler´s Rückert Lieder, Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Four Last Songs. Opera and operetta roles include Mimì, Rusalka, Micaëla (Carmen), Agathe in (Der Freischütz), Countess Almaviva (Le Nozze Di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così Fan Tutte), Donna Elvira in (Don Giovanni), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Liù (Turandot), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Wally (La Wally), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), Marguerite (Faust), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Nora (Riders To The Sea) or Ann Chute (Lily of Killarney).

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