Award-winning Northern Irish Operatic Soprano
Award-winning Northern Irish Operatic Soprano
Mary McCabe is a soprano hailing from Downpatrick, N.Ireland. With Northern Ireland Opera she has performed roles such as the following: ‘Tatyana’ in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onégin (Grand Opera House), ‘Mademoiselle Silberklang’ in Mozart’s The Impresario (Walled City Festival), ‘First Maiden’ in Puccini’s Turandot (Grand Opera House), ‘The Wife’ in Moran/Glass’ The Juniper Tree (GOH Studio), ‘Belinda’ in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, ‘Violetta’ (cover) in La Traviata (Grand Opera House), ‘Rapunzel’ and ‘Cinderella’s Mother’ in Into the Woods (Lyric Theatre) and ‘Elle’ in their production of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine (touring MAC theatre, Playhouse Theatre, Hillsborough Castle). Mary featured in the award-winning short film Old Friends and Other Days directed by Cameron Menzies, NI Opera. She also performed in concert on Sky Arts in ‘Live at the Waterfront’ with NI Opera and as their soloist in Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Ulster Orchestra (Ulster Hall) and soprano soloist in Stanford’s ‘Requiem’ with Belfast Philharmonic Choir and the Ulster Orchestra (Ulster Hall).
Mary graduated First Class in Music and French from The Queen’s University of Belfast and with Distinction in her Masters degree from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Whilst studying in Scotland, Mary was awarded First Prize in the Norma Grieg French Song Competition. More recently, Mary was a winner of the New York International Opera Project Competition and awarded first place for singing Bellini in the Italian Concorso Internazionale Lions Canto Lirico.
Mary has been generously supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland throughout the years through grants and awards. An award-winning performer on the operatic, oratorio and recital platforms, Mary has performed both nationally and internationally to critical acclaim.
"The evening belonged to Mary McCabe's Tatyana (her debut in the role), moving, tremulously at first, from youthful vulnerability to mature strength and resolve
with admirably graduated aplomb." - Opera Magazine
"Mary McCabe's Tatyana is a tour de force, always confident, moving from innocence and first love in her dramatic and sensitive Letter Scene, through lovelorn rejection by Onegin, to become the haughty Princess Gremin who rejects Onégin despite still being in love with him." - The Irish Times
“...Tatyana, her soprano voice strong and creamy at the top of her range and well suited to Tchaikovsky's undulating score in the letter tableau." - The Stage
"Mary McCabe plays the overthinking, romantic Tatyana who pours out her heart before accepting Onégin's harsh response. The talented Downpatrick soprano finally makes her operatic principal mainstage debut in this production and sustains a sense of inner anguish during the elongated 'letter aria' in Act One (assisted by the complementary acting of her older self). But it's the final scene between Tatyana and Onégin that really brings out McCabe's fieriness and passionate presence.
Her performance on opening night was rewarded with sustained applause from an appreciative home audience." - Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast)
“...this Tatyana (Mary McCabe) was particularly touching; impetuous and shy in the early scenes and singing with a lovely mixture of fragility and ardour." - The Spectator
"The soprano Mary McCabe, from Downpatrick and building a promising career, sang her first Tatyana,
at once vulnerable and resolute." - The Observer
"Her soprano is hugely rewarding and she acts persuasively Tatyana's transition from naive country girl to sophisticated aristocrat." - The Times
"But it is soprano Mary McCabe in the role of Tatyana who steals the day. Equally convincing as the love-struck maiden besotted with the dashing Onégin and then as the conflicted but resolutely faithful married woman who refuses his later advances, her near fifteen-minute recital as she pens a love letter to Onégin in Act i, one of opera's great emotive solos, is worth the price of admission alone." - Theatre News
“...his final scene tore at the heartstrings with the soprano Mary McCabe who was particularly impressive as the agonising Tatyana in her delivery and
dramatic presence." - News Letter
"She was successful in charting Tatyana’s transformation from shy and smitten country girl to the dazzling aristocrat who greets us at the end of the opera... convincing in the final two scenes and her final rejection of Onégin was dramatic and compelling." - Seen and Heard International
"Her final rejection of the man she ultimately loved was thrilling and her pianissimo entries were nothing short of magical in the second scene of Act 1." - Bachtrack
‘Regnava nel silenzio… Quando rapito’ - Lucia del Lammermoor- Donizetti. Live recital at Grand Opera House Belfast with Northern Ireland Opera and pianist Tristan Russcher.
Violetta’s scena “Estrano… Ah fors’è lui…Sempre libera” with pianist, Cameron Burns in Berlin.
‘Io son l’umile ancella’ - Adriana Lecouvreur- Cilea.
Rusalka "Song to the Moon" ("Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém") by Dvořák.
Iris Robinson’s Aria from the award-winning contemporary opera ‘Abomination: a DUP Opera’ by Conor Mitchell. The libretto is entirely constructed upon verbatim quotes from Nolan and Robinson, as well as other prominent party members like Ian Paisley Jnr and the Rev William McCrea.
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Mary will be preparing the role of Lauretta with the Ulster Orchestra and Northern Ireland Opera in Belfast.
Waterfront Hall, Belfast
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