Lauded by The Guardian for her “dark and focused” voice, “sensational coloratura” and “spectacular singing,” and by The Times for her “fierce, indeed terrifying” portrayals, Beth Taylor is one of today’s most electrifying young mezzo-sopranos.

In the last couple of years, Beth has sung with many of the world’s most important orchestras, such as the Berliner Philharmoniker (Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at Berlin Philharmonie and the Salzburg Easter Festival), the Wiener Philharmoniker (Mahler’s Eighth Symphony), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (Mahler’s Second Symphony in Los Angeles and on tour in Asia). She appeared with all of Munich’s leading symphony orchestras within just a couple of months: the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Mahler’s Second Symphony), the Munich Philharmonic (Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius), the Bayerische Staatskapelle (Das Lied von der Erde at the Munich Opera Festival), and the Munich Radio Orchestra (Karl Jenkins’s The Armed Man). In 2025/26, she made her debut at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony.

Her distinction as a recitalist has also been recognised with invitations to give solo recitals at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Wigmore Hall.

In the 2026/27 season, Beth makes her debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Bradamante in Alcina and sings her first Dido in Dido and Aeneas at Temple Music. Beth also performs the alto solo parts in Mozart’s Requiem with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Schumann’s Paradies und die Peri with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Elgar’s The Music Makers in Glasgow and with Orchestre Sinfonietta de Lausanne in Montreux, Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall, and Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with the Wiener Symphoniker at Wiener Konzerthaus, where she also appears as Cyrus in Handel’s Belshazzar with Dunedin Consort, opening the Vienna Resonanzen Festival. Performing the alto solo part in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, she appears with the Royal Swedish Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm and tours with Pygmalion Orchestra to Toulouse, Aix-en-Provence, Antwerp and Madrid.

Beth further cements her stature as one of today’s leading Mahler interpreters, performing his Second Symphony to open the season of the Polish National Opera and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall, his Third Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall and Vienna Konzerthaus, and Das Lied von der Erde at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie in Saarbrücken and with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes at Opéra de Dijon.

She also sings Mahler’s Third Symphony with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, where she is Artist in Residence during the 2026/27 season and also performs Berlioz’s La Mort de Cléopâtre and in a recital.

Further recitals take her to the Bliss Song Series in Cambridge, Milngavie Music, Leeds Song, Park Avenue Armory in New York City and the Hertfordshire Festival of Music.

Beth also performs a Mozart concert at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, a Vivaldi concert at Wigmore Hall, as well as Scarlatti’s Salve Regina and Bach’s Magnificat in Basel with La Cetra.

Her recent opera performances include the title role of La Cenerentola and Bradamante (Alcina) at Opéra de Nancy; Bradamante at Glyndebourne; Arsace (Semiramide), La Cieca (La Gioconda), Erda (Das Rheingold) and Erste Norn (Götterdämmerung) at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Giuliano Gordio (Eliogabalo) at Zurich Opera; Falliero (Bianca e Falliero) and Dardano (Amadigi di Gaula) at Oper Frankfurt; as well as staged versions of Mendelssohn’s Elias in Lyon and Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Basel. She also performed Cornelia in Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne, with The English Concert at Carnegie Hall and Barbican Hall and with Il pomo d’oro to major European cities including Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona.

On the concert platform she has also appeared as Anna (Les Troyens) at the Salzburg Festival, Berlin Festival, BBC Proms and Berlioz Festival; the Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas) in Madrid, Hamburg, Paris, Luxembourg and Essen; Argia (La Merope) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam; Ursule (Béatrice et Bénédict) at the Berlioz Festival; and Teseo (Arianna in Creta) at the London Handel Festival.

Beth has collaborated with conductors including Leonardo García Alarcón, William Christie, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Edward Gardner, Andrea Marcon, Ingo Metzmacher, Andris Nelsons, John Nelson, Rafael Payare, Kirill Petrenko, Raphaël Pichon, Sir Simon Rattle, and Sir Donald Runnicles.

A grand finalist of the 2023 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Beth Taylor is the winner of the 2022 Elizabeth Connell Award, third prize at the 2019 Wigmore Hall Competition, and winner of the 2018 Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Award. She studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and The Open University, and has worked with Jennifer Larmore, Margaret Izatt and Iain Paton.

August 2026