Range and style

Modern, classical and cabaret

Carol Rowlands, mezzo soprano, as Kostelnicka in Janacek's Jenufa, touring in an education projectCarol in the role of Kostelnicka in Janacek's Jenufa, which she toured in an education production in 2006 for English Touring Opera.

 

 

  • Carol has also sung in cabaret and in various light music ensembles.

 

Carol's solo career has encompassed roles from Cavalli's Satirino (La Calisto) to Mozart's Marcellina; from Bizet's Carmen to Britten's Mrs. Grose; from Puccini's Suzuki to Stravinsky's Baba; from Birtwistle's Judy to Hosokawa's Goneril (Vision of Lear); and she has worked with most of the major British companies as well as in Europe and the USA.

She has been directed by many highly regarded names including Elijah Moshinsky, Nuria Espert, Phyllida Lloyd, Graham Vick, Richard Jones, David Freeman, David Alden and Stephen Langridge.

Her recent work includes Edward Rushton's Birds, Barks, Bones – A Trojan Trilogy at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Mrs Sedley in Peter Grimes at The Reisopera, Netherlands, Mrs Grose in The Turn of the Screw, also at The Reisopera, Netherlands, and Babulenka in The Gamblers with Grange Park.