In 2021, Kathryn Radcliffe sang Leila in Victorian Opera’s production of The Pearl Fishers. For VO, she also performed The Blue Fairy in Respighi’s Sleeping Beauty and Echo in Kevin March’s new opera Echo and Narcissus. In 2022, she appeared in Elektra for VO and was soprano soloist in MSO’s Messiah and Melbourne Bach Choir’s Creation.
2023 appearances for Victorian Opera include Ilia (Idomeneo) and Italian Singer (Capriccio); she sings Orff’s Carmina Burana for the MSO.
Kathryn recently made her OA mainstage début – as Delia in Il viaggio a Reims. For Victorian Opera, she has sung Berta in The Barber of Seville and The Queen in The Princess and the Pea; for Tasmanian Symphony – Frasquita in Carmen.
Winner of the 2014 Herald-Sun Aria, she starred the following year as Pamina in Opera Australia’s touring production of The Magic Flute and won the Opera Foundation Vienna Award.
In 2016, Kathryn worked for several months at the Vienna State Opera – covering a range of roles such as Pamina, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Ortlinde in Die Walküre, Pousette in Manon, Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos and The High Priestess in Aida. She made her Vienna debut in The Cunning Little Vixen.
