Caroline MacPhie
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'Caroline radiated joy and ecstasy in Puisque l'aube grandit and in La lune blanche. A darker tone entered J'allais par les chemins perfides and the anxieties in J'ai presque peur were well expressed.'
Seen and Heard International Cheltenham Festival with the Elias Quartet & Tom Poster, July 2011
'On stage, Caroline MacPhie did excellent work, both vocally and dramatically.'
The Times, Scottish Opera / Carmen, September 2010
'The electricity of the girls singing Mercedes and Frasquita.'
The Herald, Scottish Opera / Carmen, September 2010
'This is a young soprano we will hear more of, whether it be in opera or as here, as a song recitalist, an area she was said to excel in she does! For a young singer barely out of music college, she is remarkably accomplished and confident in her ability.It's an extremely well-tuned light lyric soprano with a bell-like top and tonal warmth exuding from a pliant middle register. Very well projected, she didn't impose interpretation on the songs but let it grow out of her meaningful but not overdone use of words.'
Sheffield Telegraph, Music in the Round Upper Chapel, March 2010
'The Academy cast was packed with promise. Caroline MacPhie sang Berenice's difficult music surely and truly. In the aria she spun her notes into touching, lovely lines.'
Opera Magazine, Royal Academy Opera / Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro, May 2009
'But my personal favourite was the Lancashire born Caroline MacPhie. Her light-lyric instrument was clean-toned and perfectly tuned, and she delivered an enterprisingly original programme with flair, style and musical imagination.'
Daily Telegraph / Rupert Christiansen, Wigmore Hall / Ferrier Competition Final, April 2009
'Caroline MacPhie, the only Brit, put over her material with far more dramatic verve than anyone else; her Cunning Little Vixen extract, sung in Czech, was especially gripping.'
The Times / Richard Morrison, Wigmore Hall / Ferrier Competition Final, April 2009
'.... Caroline MacPhie, a sparky Vixen Sharp Ears and perfect foil to Cressida van Gordon's charmingly urbane Fox. The Vixen's set-piece as she boasts to the fox of her background and exploits in captivity at the Forester's summed up her fearless personality, while her tender duet with the Fox as they eagerly anticipated breeding again was joyfully uninhibited.'
The Cunning Little Vixen, RNCM, 2007: Opera Now / Lynne Walker
'A radiant and well groomed soprano.'
Maggie Teyte Prize 2006: Preserve Harmony (Worshipful Company of Musicians) Hilary Finch
'This is a young soprano we will hear more of, whether it be in opera or as here, as a song recitalist...'
Born in Lancashire, Caroline MacPhie studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music Opera course with Noelle Barker and Audrey Hyland, graduating in 2009 with distinction. Prior to this she read French and German at Bristol University. She was selected for representation by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2009.
Over the last year Caroline has sung the role of Frasquita (Carmen) with Scottish Opera and Nerone (Agrippina) with Cambridge Handel Opera. Concert appearances included Wigmore Hall, Fauré's La bonne chanson and the premiere of Ian Venables Remember this at the Cheltenham Festival with the Elias Quartet, Allan Clayton and Tom Poster broadcast by BBC Radio 3, and Mozart's Requiem with the Philharmonia Orchestra. She took part in masterclasses with Matthias Goerne in Aldeburgh and with Lillian Watson and Malcolm Martinu at the Steans Institute in Ravinia. This season she joins Opera North covering the role of Cleopatra (Julius Caeser) and returns to Wigmore Hall under the auspices of the Kirckman Concert Society.
During her studies Caroline's operatic roles included the title role in Janaček's Cunning Little Vixen at the Banff Centre in Canada, Nerina (Haydn La Fedeltá Premiata) conducted by Trevor Pinnock, Berenice (Rossini L'Occasione fa il ladro) for Royal Academy Opera, Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring) for British Youth Opera, Daphne (G. McBurney's The Airman's Tale) for The Yorke Trust and Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel) for RAO. In 2007 she was a member of Glyndebourne Festival Chorus.
As a soloist she has appeared with the Hallé Orchestra at Bridgewater Hall (Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica), the Hanover Band at St. John's Smith Square (Bach St. John Passion), the Classical Opera Company at King's Place (Handel's Dixit Dominus), sung Szymanowski's Stabat Mater at Cadogan Hall, Vivaldi's Gloria with the European Union Chamber Orchestra in Spain and taken the title role in Handel's Athalia with the Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra. In 2009/10 she undertook a series of Johann Strauss Gala Concerts at major venues throughout the UK and Ireland including the Barbican, Bridgewater, Birmingham Symphony, Usher Hall Edinburgh and National Concert Hall in Dublin and appeared on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night.
An accomplished lieder singer, Caroline has been a Britten-Pears Young Artist, taken part in masterclasses and concerts as a Samling Scholar, and given recitals throughout the UK under the auspices of the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme. She has won numerous prizes and awards including First Prize in the 2008 Emmy Destinn Awards in Prague, a Miriam Licette Scholarship (MBF), the Dame Eva Turner Award and the Blyth-Buesst Opera Prize (RAM).