Elizabeth Karani

Elizabeth Karani began her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music and where she won the Elizabeth Harwood prize, the Dame Eva Turner Award and the Elsie Thurston Award, before postgraduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  She is a former Park Lane Young Artist, was an inaugural Equilibrium Young Artist, and is an alumna of the National Opera Studio.

Elizabeth’s many operatic projects include her Royal Opera House debut as Nanna/Embla in the premiere of The Monstrous Child, her debut with Grange Park Opera as Jahanara in the world premiere of Nishat Khan’s Taj Mahal, Amy in the British premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women, Pamina in the world premiere of Damon Albarn’s The Magic Flute II: The Curse at the Lido in Paris, Norina Don Pasquale in the UK, France and South Africa with Diva Opera, Musetta La bohème, Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, and Galatea Acis & Galatea (all for Opera Holland Park), Gretel Hänsel und Gretel (ENO and Regent’s Park), and Gismonda Ottone, Drusilla L'incoronazione di Poppea and Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia (all for English Touring Opera).

Elizabeth’s future plans include returns to Opera Holland Park as Despina Cosi fan tutte, a return to the Buxton International Festival for her role debut as Valencienne The Merry Widow, and her house and role debut as Miss Jessel TheTurn of the Screw at the Opéra de Lausanne and at the Opéra de Toulon.

Her other eclectic roles include Isabella L'inganno felice for West Green House Opera, Rutilia Lucio Papirio Dittatore with the Buxton International Festival and La Serenissima, Rosalinde Die Fledermaus and Berta Il barbiere de Siviglia for Diva Opera, Tatyana Eugene Onegin for Mid Wales Opera and Cino in Vivaldi’s Teuzzone for La Serenissima.  Her other stage appearances include Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia, Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream and both Frasquita and Micaëla Carmen.

Elizabeth has also sung Jano Jenufa for Longborough Festival Opera, Jay The Cunning Little Vixen for Garsington Opera, Tartaglione in Jonathan Dove’s The Little Green Swallow, Angel Jephtha (with Harry Christophers), plus Eleanora Le Donne Curiose, Atalanta Xerses, Armande in Martinu’s Alexandre Bis, Orestes La Belle Hélène, La Chauve-Souris L’enfant et les sortilèges, and Suor Genovieffa Suor Angelica.

Highlights on the concert platform include Mozart Requiem with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Barbara Hannigan, Handel Solomon for the Musique Cordiale International Festival, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate with the London Mozart Players, and Mahler Symphony No. 2 with the Sheffield Symphony Orchestra.