Caitlin Hulcup is an Australian mezzo-soprano.
Mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup started her music career as a violinist and violist, receiving scholarships to the Banff Center for the Arts and playing in the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. She was chosen by the W.A. Opera to be a Young Artist in 2000, where she performed as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro.[1] While attending the Victorian College of the Arts for voice, Hulcup won prizes in lieder competitions. She sang Strauss Lieder as the winner of the ABC Young Performer's Awards with the Tasmanian and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, which was shown on national radio and television, and sang in the "Credo Mass" by Mozart with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2001.[1] Hulcup won the Opera Foundation Australia's Covent Garden National Opera Studio Scholarship in 2002 and was the Australian candidate for the 2002 Belevedere Singing Competition.[1]
Caitlin Hulcup made an impression on the international opera scene in 2007, when she replaced Angelika Kirchschlager, who had laryngitis, as Handel's Ariodante in London and Madrid.[2] The Financial Times wrote that "she rode the fearsome coloratura of her great Act 1 aria with aplomb. In Scherza infida she wrung our hearts, while Dopo notte showcased her open-heartedness as well as her brilliant way with the da capo decoration".[2] Following her successes in London and Madrid, she sang as Meg Page in Falstaff at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées the next year and Ariodante at the Handel Festival in Germany. Hulcup is now in the Vienna State Opera.[2]
Caitlin Hulcup will perform the following roles with the Vienna State Opera in 2010: Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. [3] Hulcup was a guest soloist with the InterHarmony International Music Festival Orchestra and das Forchheimer Kammerorchester together with Misha Quint, cellist in Hinterzarten, Germany in August, 2010.[4]