Katherine Manley

Soprano Katherine Manley studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow and the Benjamin Britten International Opera School at the Royal College of Music, London.

Recent seasons include the world premier’s of BlankOut, by Michel Van der Aa, Greece, Helsinki, China and Germany. The Last Hotel  by Donnacha Dennehy (music) and Enda Walsh (text) at the Edinburgh Festival, London Covent Garden and New York St Ann's Warehouse and most recently performing and recording Dennehy's revised score of  The Hunger  with Nonesuch Records, in BAM, New York, the Kennedy Center Washington DC, St Louis Opera, and the MMCF with contemporary ensemble  Alarm Will Sound, and in Ireland with Crash Ensemble.

Katherine revisited the role of  Zenna Briggs  in Van der Aa's  Sunken Garden  which  she created at  English National Opera  2013, at the  Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Essen Philharmonie, and for Dallas Opera.

In addition to her growing reputation in the contemporary operatic repertoire, Katherine is already established as an outstanding performer of baroque music. She played  Creuse  in David McVicar’s production of Charpentier’s Medée, ENO. Atalanta, Serses for HändelFestSpiele, Badisches Staats Theatre. A number of  Monteverdi roles include the title role in  Poppea,  conducted by Christian Curnyn. She made her US stage debut as  Oriana  in Handel’s  Amadigi  for Central City Opera, Colorado.

In past seasons Katherine has been a popular guest artist at the Théâtre du Châtelet,  Paris, featuring in the leading roles of  Eliza Doolittle,  in Robert Carson's  My Fair Lady,  &  Maria  in  The Sound of Music.

Her concert engagements include Judith Weir’s  Natural History for Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele. Max Richter’s  Memoryhouse,  with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.  Aci, Galatea e Polifemo  with Capriccio Barockorchester,  Saul  with  Daniel Reuss,  Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5  at The Sage, Northern Sinfonia. She has sung  Jephtha  with The King’s Consort, & Israel in Egypt  on tour with Musik Podium Stuttgart.

Katherine currently sings the role of Pat Nixon, in John Adams’ Nixon in China with  Stuttgart Opera, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Central City Opera, & Asenath Nicholson in Dennehy’s The Hunger. Future engagements /production revivals take her to Taiwan, Ireland, New York, Berlin and Boston.