Caitlin Hulcup
Mezzo Soprano
Caitlin Hulcup made her European debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as Enriquetta (I Puritani) having won Opera Foundation Australia’s Vienna State Opera Award. She went on to establish her career at leading opera houses internationally, including Royal Opera House London, the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Theatre an der Wien, Theatre des Champs Elysees, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bayerisches Staatsoper Munich, and Palau de les Arts Valencia.
She sang Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) with Zubin Mehta in Valencia and Florence; she also appeared as Octavian in Moscow with Vassily Sinaisky and in Beijing with Sebastian Lang Lessing. As Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Caitlin sang at the Wiener Staatsoper with Yves Abel and with Jean-Christoph Spinosi and debuted as Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) in Taipei. As Idamante (Idomeneo), she sang under Tobias Ringborg for Garsington Opera, in Lisbon at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos under Christian Curnyn and for Opera Australia in Sydney with Johannes Fritsch in Lindy Hume’s acclaimed production.
Other roles have included Iseult (Le Vin herbé) at the Welsh National Opera; Penelope in The Return of Ulysses (ROH) and Radamisto (Kennedy Center USA). She has also performed as Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), as Romeo (I Capuletti e i Montecchi). She sang her first Fricka (Die Walküre) in 2020 in Singapore and, in 2023, appeared as Fricka (Das Rheingold) opposite Greer Grimsley as Wotan and conducted by Joshua Kangmin Tan.
As a concert soloist, Caitlin has particular affinity with Mahler’s works, having performed: Das Knaben Wunderhorn at the Sydney Opera House under Mark Wigglesworth; Das Lied von der Erde for Noord Nederlands Orkest under Martin Sieghart; Kindertotenlieder under Hartmut Haenchen; Symphony No. 2 with the Sydney Symphony under David Robertson and at the Musikverein with Junge Philharmonie Wien; Symphony No. 8 with the RSNO under Peter Ounjian. She was Alto Soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the BBC Proms, in Venezuela under Gustavo Dudamel, with Hong Kong Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden and with the Sydney Symphony under Edo de Wart.
Commercial CD releases include Arbaces (Artaxerses) for Linn Records with Ian Page, Vivaldi’s Griselda and Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride for Pinchgut Opera and Rossini’s Maometto II with David Parry.
Caitlin formerly taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London and is now a professor of voice at the Universität der Künste Berlin and is sought after for masterclasses and workshops internationally.