Mary King
Printer-friendly versionCreative Director and Mezzo Soprano
Mary King
is a distinguished interpreter of a wide variety of music. She has made a particular feature of contemporary repertoire and has appeared in many roles on the operatic stage.
She has worked with many conductors and orchestras across the world, especially Oliver Knussen and Simon Rattle, and regularly performed works such as Pierrot Lunaire, Where the Wild Things Are, Ligeti's Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures and countless new works.
Her many operatic roles include Marcellina (Nozze di Figaro), Baba the Turk (Rake's Progress), Cockerel (Cunning Little Vixen) , Mrs Grose (Turn of the Screw) ,Meg Page (Falstaff), Mama/Zippie (Where the Wild Things Are).
As vocal coach and creative director, Mary King was Artistic Associate of English National Opera's Baylis Programme from 2004-2006. She ran ENO's highly successful performance skills course, 'The Knack' for eleven years and works with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's education programme. Mary has recently been announced as Head of the Vocal Studio at the South Bank Centre from Autumn 2006.
A highly experienced vocal coach and creative director, Mary has quickly become a key galvanising figure in the vocal world and is now increasingly widely known through her growing work on television. She works regularly for the Berlin Philharmonic's cutting edge education programme.
Mary King was one of the driving forces behind Channel 4's critically acclaimed and award winning 'OPERATUNITY', a five week television series introducing opera to the wider public. This was followed by MUSICALITY, also on Channel 4, a five part series on Music Theatre and in July last year she was the expert analyst at Cardiff Singer of the World for BBC Television.
