Katie Grosset Mezzo Soprano and Music Specialist
BMus (Hons), MPerf (distinction), PGDip Opera Studies (distinction)
Recent Operatic Experience
Key: cover* / concert performance** / scenes***
Mother Vixen Fox Tot [Paterson]
Scottish Opera
July – September 2019
Nightingale Nightingale and the Rose [Hagemann]
Pegasus Opera
April 2019
Mum Seafield Street [Cruikshank]
Confab
March 2019
Mezzo Character [Opera Factory]
Scottish Opera
May – June 2018
Olga** Eugene Onegin [Tchaikovsky]
Scottish Opera Unwrap
May 2018
Maddalena* Rigoletto [Verdi]
Scottish Opera
Oct – Nov 2018
Xerxes Xerxes [Handel]
Byre Opera
June 2018
Cousin Hebe HMS Pinafore [G and S]
National G and S Company
Summer 2017
Melissa Princess Ida [G and S]
National G and S Company
Summer 2017
Olga Eugene Onegin [Tchaikovsky]
Opera Bohemia
Nov – Dec 2016
Giovanna and Page Rigoletto [Verdi]
Regents Opera
May – June 2017
Flora and Annina La Traviata [Verdi]
Haddo Opera
April 2017
‘Mezzo Voice’ The 8th Door (World Premier) [Paterson]
Scottish Opera
March – April 2017
Judith*** Bluebeard’s Castle [Bartok]
Scottish Opera
April 2017
Kate The Pirates of Penzance [G&S]
National G&S Company
Summer 2016
Pitti Sing*,Katisha* The Mikado [G&S]
National G&S Company
Summer 2016
Phoebe* Yeomen of the Guard [G&S]
National G&S Company
Summer 2016
Carmen Carmen [Bizet]
NOS Alumni, W.A Festival
May 2016
Romeo I Capuleti e i Montecchi [Bellini]
Pop Up Opera
March – May 2016
Carmen** Carmen [Bizet]
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
March 2016
Shoushan Gariné [Tchouhadjian]
Grimeborn Festival
August 2015
Mercedes Carmen [Bizet]
Nevill Holt Opera
June 2015
Aurelio* Siege of Calais [Donizetti]
English Touring Opera
March – May 2015
Waxwings (Opera for children with special needs)
English Touring Opera
March – May 2015
Third Witch Macbeth [Verdi]
Scottish Opera
October 2014
‘Pop Up’ Soloist Various new operas
Tête à Tête Opera Festival
July – Aug 2014
Florence Pike*** Albert Herring [Britten]
National Opera Studio
May 2014
Lucretia*** The Rape of Lucretia [Britten]
National Opera Studio
May 2014
Joseph’s Mother*** Dead Man Walking [Heggie]
National Opera Studio
April 2014
Angel 2*** Written on Skin [Benjamin]
National Opera Studio
April 2014
Romeo*** I Capuleti e i Montecchi [Bellini]
National Opera Studio
December 2013
Zerlina* Don Giovanni [Mozart]
Scottish Opera
Oct – Nov 2013
Olga Eugene Onegin [Tchaikovsky]
Opera Bohemia
August 2013
Edith The Pirates of Penzance [G&S]
Scottish Opera/D’oyly Carte
May – July 2013
Flora&Annina La traviata [Verdi]
Scottish Opera
Throughout 2012/13
Second Lady* The Magic Flute [Mozart]
Scottish Opera
Oct – Nov 2012
Boletta* Lady from the Sea [Armstrong]
Scottish Opera
September 2012
Mary Making Arrangements [Bray]
Tête à Tête Opera Festival
August 2012
Brambilla* La Périchôle [Offenbach]
Garsington
July 2012
Annio** La Clemenza di Tito [Mozart]
Opus Opera September 2011
Sesto La Clemenza di Tito [Mozart]
Core role learned at the National Opera Studio 2013 – 14
Oratorio Soloist Experience
Bach St John Passion
Daruflé Requiem
Haydn Mass in B Flat
Haydn Nelson Mass
Handel Messiah
Mozart Coronation Mass
Mozart Requiem
Vivaldi Gloria
Verdi Requiem
Notable Concert and Radio Broadcast Experience
‘Mezzo Diva’ in Opera Factory
Touring Scotland
Scottish Opera Education
April – May 2018
Opera excerpts / arias for Brighter Sounds Festival
Royal Festival Hall
March 2016
Oxford Lieder Recital
Holywell Music Room
October 2014
‘Nurse Wallace’ in I. Burnside’s ‘A Soldier and a Maker
BBC Radio 3 Drama
June 2014
Soloist Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky
Usher Hall
June 2014
Scottish Opera Highlights
Tour 17 performance dates across Scotland
Jan – Feb 2013
Henze ‘Voices’ Soloist
Guildhall Contemporary ensemble Barbican
BBC Recording 2010
‘Ma’ in Lads in their hundreds directed by I. Burnside and V. Newlyn
Theatro Technis
London 2010
Les Noces alto soloist
Guildhall Consort and Sinfonia Touring across France
2009
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