Marie McLaughlin

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Marie McLaughlin (born 2 November 1954) is a Scottish operatic soprano.

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A light lyric soprano, McLaughlin is noted for her performances as Susanna and Marcellina ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Zerlina ( Don Giovanni ), Despina ( Cosi fan tutte ), Norina ( Don Pasquale ), Marzelline ( Fidelio ), Nannetta ( Falstaff ), Micaëla ( Carmen ), Tytania ( A Midsummer Night's Dream ), Zdenka ( Arabella ), and Hanna Glawari ( The Merry Widow ).

Career

Born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, [1] Scotland, she studied in Glasgow and at the London Opera Centre, making her debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro . After singing with Scottish Opera and the Welsh National Opera, she then appeared with the English National Opera from 1978, and at the Royal Opera House in London from 1980. Her international career has included guest roles at the Hamburg State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Paris Opéra, Bavarian State Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera of New York, Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. In 2013 she appeared in the world premieres of The Perfect American by Philip Glass (Madrid) and A Harlot's Progress by Iain Bell (Vienna).

Selected recordings

Sources

  1. "Marie McLaughlin". Royal Opera House. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

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