Diana Montague - Mezzo-soprano of English National Opera

Diana Montague

Mezzo-soprano

Diana Montague is one of the most distinguished artists of her generation and has sung for major opera companies across the world, including New York’s Metropolitan Opera and ROH, and at festivals including Salzburg and Bayreuth.

Previously for ENO: Lucy Marnie.

Career Highlights

Notable engagements: Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes (Monte Carlo), Gertrude Roméo et Juliette (the Met); Mrs Grose Turn of the Screw (Zurich); Larina Eugene Onegin (ROH); Benvenuto Cellini (Rome Opera); Iphigénie en Tauride (WNO, Madrid); Albert Herring, Le nozze di Figaro, Rossini’s Ermione, Ludmilla The Bartered Bride (Glyndebourne); Le comte Ory, (Lausanne, Rome, Glyndebourne); Proserpina Orfeo, Minerva Ritorno d’Ulisse (De Nederlandse Opera); Sesto La clemenza di Tito (Madrid, Athens); Marguerite La damnation de Faust (Geneva); Composer Ariadne auf Naxos (Scottish Opera, Lisbon); Larina, Marcellina Figaro, Meg Page Falstaff, Bartered Bride, Magdalene Meistersinger, Gertrude (ROH); Octavian (ENO, Bilbao, Madrid); Marguerite (Vienna); Idamante (Bilbao); Marcellina (ENO, Dallas Opera, La Monnaie, Opéra National du Rhin); Handel’s Susannah (OAE); Aldagisa Norma (Opera Holland Park); Damira La verita in cimento (Garsington, UK premiere); Mother Hänsel und Gretel (Toulouse); La Haine Armide (DNO). She has recorded extensively for labels including Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Chandos, Phillips, Teldec and EMI.

 

Last updated: 11th July 2018