Kristin Finnigan

Kristin Finnigan graduated with honours from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, going on to complete the advanced postgraduate course at Trinity College of Music, supported by the Henry Rennoldson-Crawford Scholarship, where she won the Elizabeth Schumann lieder prize and Paul Simm Opera Prize. She is also a former Britten Pears Young Artist.

Her operatic roles include Kate Cassidy in Richard Wargo’s Losers, Tisbe La Cenerentola and Mrs Kneebone A Dinner Engagement (Wexford Festival Opera); Mistress Quickly Falstaff and Amastre in Xerxes (Iford Arts); Marceline Belle Lurette (New Sussex Opera); Widow Browe in Peter the Great (Opera South); Third Lady The Magic Flute, Flora/Annina La traviata, Jacqueline Sherwood Kiss Me, Figaro!, and Bacchis Troy Boy (Merry Opera); Duchess of Plaza Toro The Gondoliers (Opera della Luna); Fairy Queen Iolanthe and Ruth Pirates of Penzance (Charles Court Opera); Marcellina Le nozze di Figaro and Sorceress Dido and Aeneas (Musique Cordiale Opera); and Second Witch and Spirit Dido and Aeneas (Armonico Consort). Other roles include Messaggiera in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Symbolic Mother in the world première of Tunde Jegede’s A Cry of Innocence, Mrs Peacham The Beggar’s Opera, Cornelia Giulio Cesare and Madame de Croissy Dialogues des Carmélites. For Opera North she covered Flosshilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Amng her concert performances are Handel Messiah in Monte-Carlo, Tippett A Child of our Time (at Trinity) and performances with various choral societies including Elgar Sea Pictures (Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society) and Rossini Petite messe solennelle (Northampton Philharmonic Choir and Harpenden Choral Society). Whilst at the RSAMD she performed as a soloist with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s Three Village Scenes. As a Britten-Pears Artists she worked with German baritone Christian Gerhaher and accompanist Gerold Huber and subsequently performed a concert series in Germany.