Caitlin Hulcup made her European debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as Enriquetta; I Puritani, having won Opera Foundation Australia's Vienna State Opera Award. She went on to establish her career at leading opera houses internationally, including Royal Opera House London, the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Theatre an der Wien, Theatre des Champs Elysees, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bayerisches Staatsoper Munich, and Palau de les Arts Valencia.
Caitlin regularly appears in opera, in concerts and in Lieder recitals. Her broad operatic repertoire features major Handel, Mozart and Strauss roles such as Donna Elvira: Don Giovanni and as Octavian: Der Rosenkavalier with Zubin Mehta in Valencia and Florence. She also appeared as Octavian in Moscow with Vassily Sinaisky and in Beijing with Sebastian Lang Lessing.
As Rosina: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Caitlin sang at the Wiener Staatsoper with Yves Abel and with Jean-Christoph Spinosi and debuted as Sesto, La Clemenza di Tito in Taipei. As Idamante: Idomeneo she sang under Tobias Ringborg for Garsington Opera, in Lisbon at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos under Christian Curnyn and for Opera Australia in Sydney with Johannes Fritsch in Lindy Hume's acclaimed production.
Other roles have included Iseult: Le vin Herbe by Frank Martin (Welsh National Opera) Penelope: The return of Ulysses (ROH) and Radamisto (Kennedy Center USA). She has also performed as Lucretia: The Rape of Lucretia, as Romeo: I Capuletti e i Montecchi. She gave her first Fricka: Die Walküre with OMM in 2020 in Singapore and in 2023 appeared as Fricka: Das Rheingold, opposite Greer Grimsley as Wotan and conducted by Joshua Kangmin Tan.
As a soloist in concert Caitlin has particular affinity with Mahler's works, having performed Das Knaben Wunderhorn at the Sydney Opera House with Mark Wigglesworth and Das Lied von der Erde for Noord Nederlands Orkest with Martin Sieghart and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder under Hartmut Haenchen. She has also appeared as the Alt soloist in Mahler's 2nd Symphony in Sydney with Sydney Symphony under David Robertson, at the Musikverein with Junge Philharmonie Wien, as well as singing Mahler's 8th Symphony in Scotland with the RSNO under Peter Ounjian. She has sung the Angel in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius at the Newbury Festival and in Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the BBC Proms, in Venezuela under Gustavo Dudamel, with Hong Kong Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden and with the Sydney Symphony under Edo de Wart. Caitlin has also sung Mozart's 'Great' Cmin Mass with Jeremie Rhorer in Hamburg and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with Martin Haselböck and the Wiener Akademie.
Over the course of her career Caitlin has performed with leading early music conductors including René Jacobs (La Calisto) at La Monnaie, William Christie (Belshazzar) at Salle Playel and Barbican London, Christian Curnyn (Penelope: Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria, Aristeus: Orfeo for ROH) and with Alan Curtis (Ariodante and Cesare: Catone in Utica) in Paris and Vienna. She performed as Orfeo: Orfeo ed Euridice in Finland with Fabio Biondo, as Ariodante with Christoph Rousset in Paris and Madrid and Dido: Dido and Aeneas with Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican, London. Commercial CD releases include Arbaces: Artaxerses for Linn Records with Ian Page, Vivaldi's Griselda, Irene Theodora and Iphigenie en Tauride for Pinchgut Opera and Rossini's Maometto II as Calbo with David Parry.
Caitlin formerly taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London and is now a professor of voice at the Universität der Künste Berlin and is sought after for masterclasses and workshops internationally. See Coaching for more information.
