MARY McCABE Soprano
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: 07773089857
MUSICAL EDUCATION
2013 - 2015 - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, MMus Vocal Performance - With Distinction
2011 – 2012 - N. I. Opera Company, Young Artist Programme
2008 – 2011 - The Queen’s University of Belfast, BMus Music (Major) & French (Minor) – First Class Honours
OPERATIC EXPERIENCE 2020 At Home for Christmas, Excerpt Die Fledermaus, Rosalinde, NI Opera, Online
2020 Alcina, Handel, Alcina, Wicked Warblings Halloween, NIOpera, Online
2020 Juliet’s Sleep (Roméo et Juliette), Gounod, Juliette, World Opera Day, NIOpera, Online
2020 Abomination: a DUP Opera, Excerpt, Conor Mitchell, Iris Robinson, Online
2020 Opera Under the Stars, Operatic excerpts for outdoor events, Soloist, NIOpera, Dundonald & Lisburn
2019 The Enchantress, V. Herbert, Princess, NIOpera, Accidental Theatre, Belfast
2019 Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II, Chorus, NIOpera, Grand Opera House, Belfast
2019 Tannhäuser, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2019 Lohengrin, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2019 Parsifal, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2019 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2018 Cosí Fan Tutte, Mozart, Fiordiligi, extracts, NIOpera, Grand Central Hotel, Belfast
2018 Lohengrin, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2018 Der fliegende Holländer, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2018 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2018 Parsifal, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2018 Silverseas/Luna Rossa – Operatic Soloist, Worldwide
2017 POPera Bites: Die Zauberflöte - 2nd Lady, Le Nozze di Figaro – Susanna, La Bohème – Musetta, The Tales of Hoffmann – Guilietta, La Périchole – La Périchole, NI Opera, Grand Opera House, Belfast
2017 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2017 Gӧtterdämmerung, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2017 Parsifal, Wagner, Chorus, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth
2017 The Tales of Hoffmann (Scene), Offenbach, Olympia, Spark Opera, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
2016 Don Giovanni, Mozart, Chorus, NI Opera, Belfast
2016 'Beyond Lilliput' - Babu Press Ensemble - Soloist - The Playhouse, Londonderry 2016 'Вечерняя Опера' - Soloist - Dom Kompozitorov, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2015 Turandot, Puccini, Chorus, NI Opera, Belfast
2015 The Rake’s Progress, Stravinsky, Chorus, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & RCS, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
2015 Dido and Aeneas, Purcell, First Witch, Opera Project, RCS, Glasgow
2014 Der Schauspieldirektor, Mozart, Madmoiselle Silberklang, N I Opera, Londonderry
2014 La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart, Chorus, Royal Conservatoire Scotland Opera Scenes,
2014 La Clemenza di Tito, Servilia and Cenerentola, Clorinda, RCS Opera Workshop, British Youth Opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, Susanna
2013 Dido and Aeneas, Purcell, Belinda, N I Opera
2013 The Flying Dutchman, Wagner, Chorus, N I Opera
2012 The Turn of the Screw, Britten, Flora (Understudy), N I Opera
2012 Opera Shorts, MAC Theatre Belfast/Southbank London, N I Opera
2012 Science, Freda, Omar Zatriqi Spark Opera Company
2012 Monster in the Dark, Petal, Eduard Zatriqi,
2011 Hansel and Gretel, Dew Fairy (Understudy), N I Opera
2011 Alcina, Alcina, Queen’s University Belfast
2009 Van Helsing, Eduard Zatriqi, Mina, Spark Opera Company
2009 Opera Fringe Festival – Il Campanello (Donizetti), Riders to the Sea (V. Williams), Down Arts Council
ORATORIO/CANTATA 2019 Handel, 'Messiah', Soloist, Ards Choral, St. Columbanus (Bangor) & St. Patrick's (Newtownards)
2019 Mozart, 'Exsultate Jubilate - Motet', Haydn, 'Creation', Soloist, Ards Choral, St. Mark's, Newtownards
2018 Handel, 'Messiah', Soloist, Ards Choral, St. Columbanus (Bangor) & St. Patrick's (Newtownards)
2017 Jenkins, 'The Healer', Soloist, Ards Choral, St. Columbanus (Bangor) & St. Patrick's (Newtownards)
Fauré, 'Requiem', Soloist, Ards Choral, St. Columbanus (Bangor) & St. Patrick's (Newtownards)
2017 Saint-Saëns, 'Requiem', Soloist, Portico of Ards (Newtownards)
2016 Handel, 'Messiah', Soloist, Ards Choral, St. Columbanus (Bangor) & St. Patrick's (Newtownards)
Jenkins, 'The Armed Man', Soloist, Ards Choral, St. Mark's Church (Bangor) Gounod,
'Messe Solennelle', Soloist, Ards Choral, St. Mark's Church (Bangor)
2015 Handel, 'Messiah', Soloist, Ards Choral, Down Cathedral (Downpatrick)
2014 Bach, ‘Coffee Cantata’, Liesgen (Soloist), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Glasgow)
2013 Mozart 'Mass in C Minor’, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Glasgow)
2012 Durufle ‘Requiem’, Soloist, Cadenza Choir, Down Cathedral (Downpatrick)
2011 Haydn ‘Seven Last Words of Christ’, Soloist, Portaferry Proms (Portaferry)
2011 Handel ‘Messiah’, Soloist, Ards Choral
2010 Handel 'Messiah', Soloist, Ards Choral, Groomsport Presbyterian & St. Patrick's (Newtownards)
2009 Handel ‘Laudate Pueri’, Opera Fringe, Down Cathedral (Downpatrick) 2008 Handel ‘Dixit Dominus’, Chorus, Opera Fringe, St Patrick's Church (Downpatrick) Haydn ‘Creation’, Chorus & Soloist (Understudy), Opera Fringe, St. Patrick's Church (Downpatrick)
CONCERTS
2020 BBC The One Show, ‘Your Song Now’, Ulster Orchestra, Belfast
2020 Ulster Orchestra Christmas Concert, Online
2020 Opera Under the Stars, Soloist, NI Opera, Lisburn & Dundonald
2020 Lunchtime Recital, Soloist, Lieder & French Melodies Recital, Rosemary Street Presbyterian, Belfast
2017 Lunchtime Recital Series, Soloist, Lieder & French Melodies Recital, The Queen's University of Belfast
BBC Radio Ulster, 'Classical Connections', Soloist, BBC Broadcasting Studios, Belfast
Klinikum Konzert, Soloist, Bayreuth, Germany
2016 Robert Burns Association, Soloist, Broughton House, Kirkcudbright
2015 Glenarm Festival of Voice Recital, Soloist, NI Opera, Glenarm
2014 ‘Classics in the Park’, Soloist, N I Opera, Newtownabbey Recital, N I Opera, Caledon Castle, Tyrone
'Les Chemins de l'amour' – Song Studio, RCS, Soloist
Robert Burns Association, Soloist, Broughton House, Kirkcudbright
2013 ‘Glasgow on Ice’ Christmas concert series, RCS, Soloist
Concert performance, ‘Les Noces’, Stravinsky, RCS, Chorus
Summer series recital, Belfast, N I Opera G8 Summit Recitals, Enniskillen, Soloist
BBC Radio Ulster, Sunday Service Broadcast, Soloist
2012 Christmas Gala, Soloist, N I Opera
BBC Belfast, ‘Sounds Classical Christmas Special’ Soloist
‘Classics in the Park’, Soloist, N I Opera/Belfast Arts Council
‘The Song and the Stage’, Soloist, N I Opera
Philip Hammond’s ‘Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic’, St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast
2011 Walled City Festival, Londonderry & Belfast, Soloist
Ynysowen Choir, Soloist
Culture Night, Barber of Seville Excerpts (Rosina), NI Opera, Belfast
2010 ‘Keynote – Site specific classical concert series’, Queen’s University, Soloist
COMPETITIONS & AWARDS
2021 Winner of New York International Opera Project (NYIOP) Anonymous Audition Competition
2020 Concorso Internazionale Lions, Italy, Third prize and an award for best rendition of a Bellini aria
2018 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Individual Artist Award, National Lottery Funded
2015 Norma Grieg French Song, First Prize, RCS
2012 Scholarship for study, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2012 Finalist in N I Opera’s Festival of Voice in Glenarm
2012 Finalist for the Dame Eva Turner Award at the RNCM
2012 Hamilton Harty Scholarship, The Queen’s University, Belfast 2011 Hamilton Harty Scholarship, The Queen’s University, Belfast
2010 Kodaly Scholarship, The Queen’s University, Belfast
2009 Paul Monaghan Performance Scholarship, Queen’s University, Belfast
MASTERCLASSES/VOCAL TRAINING Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Nuala Murray, Della Jones, Ingrid Surgenor (Royal Academy of Music), Mairead Sheerin, Colette McGahon, Elizabeth Ritchie (RAM), Sophie Hervé (CRR, Paris), Peter Hill, Roy Laughlin (Guildhall), Antoine Palloc, Kathryn Harries (National Opera Studio, London), Martin Lloyd-Evans (Guildhall), Stuart Barker (British Youth Opera), David Gowland (Royal Opera House), Ian Burnside, Andrei Sergeev (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow), Mary Plazas and Helen Lawson
LANGUAGES French - Fluent, Russian, German and Italian - Beginner