Margaret Plummer
Margaret Plummer’s roles as principal artist at the Vienna State Opera have included Emilia (Otello), Clover (Animal Farm), Adelaide (Arabella), Kitchen Boy (Rusalka), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Mercedes (Carmen), Flosshilde, Waltraute and Dritte Norn (Wagner’s Ring cycle), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Siebel (Faust), Varvara (Katya Kabanova), Tebaldo (Don Carlos), Page (Salome), Fenena (Nabucco), Meg Page (Falstaff, also for Hamburg State Opera), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Fjodor (Boris Godunov).
Margaret’s recent and upcoming engagements include her debuts at La Scala, Milan as Auntie (Peter Grimes) and at the Bayreuth Festival as Blumenmädchen; Flosshilde (Das Rheingold) and Siegrune (Die Walküre) with Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Messiah with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
Guest engagements have taken Margaret to the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck (Charlotte, Werther and Marguerite, La damnation du Faust); Vienna Philharmonic (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9); Savaria Symphony Orchestra (Haydn’s Theresienmesse); Tirol Symphony Orchestra (Berg’s Seven Early Songs); Pinchgut Opera (Phoebe, Castor et Pollux and Diane, Iphigenie en Tauride); Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (Mozart’s Requiem).