| Liane Keegan |
 Liane Keegan - Mezzo Soprano Liane Keegan has established a reputation as one of Australia’s finest dramatic mezzo sopranos. She is a highly sought after artist both in Europe and Australia and excels in all facets of vocal performance. Her operatic performances include Third Maid in the Sydney Festival’s Elektra; Erste Norn in Stuttgart Opera's Götterdämmerung; Azucena in Il Trovatore for State Opera of South Australia; Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera for Opera Australia; Mistress Quickly in the Minnesota Sommerfest production of Falstaff; Offred’s Mother in The Handmaid’s Tale and First Norn in Twilight of the Gods for English National Opera and the roles of Erda, First Norn and Waltraute (Die Walküre) in State Opera of South Australia’s Der Ring Des Niebelungen, recorded under the Melba Recordings label. At Theater Hagen roles included Third Lady in Die Zäuberflöte, Klytämnestra in Elektra, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff along with a role in the new opera Helle Nächte, Mother in The Tales of Hoffmann, Begbick in The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny and Brigitte in Die Töte Stadt. She also sang second Maid in Elektra at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival.In 2007 she sang Madame De Croissy in Dialogue of the Carmelites at the Edinburgh Festival, the role of Fenena in Nabucco for Opera Queensland and Third Lady for Deutsche Oper Berlin with Andrew Davis conducting. Forthcoming engagements include Mahler Symphony No 3 with The Queensland Orchestra as well as Mary in Der fliegende Holländer and Mama Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana for the Deutsche Oper Berlin. More recent concerts include The Page in Salome in concert with Hong Kong Philharmonic; recitals in Siena and Florence, London and The Winchester Festival, Vaughan Williams' Five Tudor Portraits with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Bach's Magnificat with Athens Kamerata; Gaea in Daphne for VARA Radio at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Messiah with the Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras; Mahler's 8th Symphony with the Melbourne Symphony, and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass for Sydney Symphony and First Norn in a concert version of Götterdämmerung for Perth International Arts Festival. Other concert highlights include Mozart Requiem with Sir Neville Marriner and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; the role of Barbara in the British premiere of Korngold's Violanta conducted by Paul Daniel at the 1997 Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms; Waltraute in the concert version of the third act of Die Walküre at the Edinburgh International Festival conducted by Antonio Pappano; First Norn in Sydney Symphony's Götterdämmerung for the Olympic Arts Festival; and Guo Wenjing’s Inscriptions on Bone for the 1999 Edinburgh Festival with the Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam conducted by Ed Spanjaard, which had further performances in Amsterdam and Vienna and was performed again at the Vienna Konzerthaus with the Klangforum Wien conducted by Hans Zender. Liane Keegan has also given a number of recitals throughout the UK, Austria, France and Australia, including a Crush Bar Recital at The Royal Opera House, lieder recitals at the prestigious Festspiele Mecklenburg and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and at the Sydney Festival. She also appeared in a film based on the life and works of Schubert for ZDF television, Germany, featuring masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, with whom she also appeared in a series of masterclasses in the Wigmore Hall in 1996. Liane Keegan was a recipient of both the Shell Royal Opera House Covent Garden Scholarship and The American Institute of Musical Studies Scholarship, Opera Foundation Australia. In 1997 she won a Bayreuth Bursary from the Wagner Society of Great Britain. 2008 Schedule The Queensland Orchestra, Mahler’s Symphony No 3, 23 February Deutsche Oper Berlin, Mamma Lucia in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, 1,7,11,18, 22 May Deutsche Oper Berlin, Mary in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, 8,12,17,21,29 June Melba Recordings performances: |