Deborah Humble
Mezzo-Soprano
Previously a Principal Artist at Opera Australia and the State Opera of Hamburg, Deborah Humble has performed more than sixty operatic roles worldwide including Amneris (Aida), Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Zenobia (Radamisto), Bradamante (Alcina), Erda (Das Rheingold, Siegfried), Waltraute (Die Walküre, Die Götterdämmerung), Klytamnestra (Elektra), Malik (L’Upupa), Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Suzuki (Madame Butterfly), Aunty (Peter Grimes), Marcelina (The Marriage of Figaro), Branngäne (Tristan und Isolde), Mescalina (Le Grande Macabre), Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress), Dulcinée (Don Quichotte), Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Sonyetka (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Madelon (Andrea Chenier), Carmen (Carmen) and Clarissa (The Love for Three Oranges.)
Equally at home on the concert platform her repertoire includes Mahler’s 2nd, 3rd and 8th Symphonies, Requiems by Verdi, Dvorák, Mozart, Duruflé and Fauré, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, The Music Makers, The Kingdom and the Dream of Gerontius, and Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Te Deum.
Deborah Humble
Mezzo-Soprano
Previously a Principal Artist at Opera Australia and the State Opera of Hamburg, Deborah Humble has performed more than sixty operatic roles worldwide including Amneris (Aida), Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Zenobia (Radamisto), Bradamante (Alcina), Erda (Das Rheingold, Siegfried), Waltraute (Die Walküre, Die Götterdämmerung), Klytamnestra (Elektra), Malik (L’Upupa), Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Suzuki (Madame Butterfly), Aunty (Peter Grimes), Marcelina (The Marriage of Figaro), Branngäne (Tristan und Isolde), Mescalina (Le Grande Macabre), Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress), Dulcinée (Don Quichotte), Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Sonyetka (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Madelon (Andrea Chenier), Carmen (Carmen) and Clarissa (The Love for Three Oranges.)
Equally at home on the concert platform her repertoire includes Mahler’s 2nd, 3rd and 8th Symphonies, Requiems by Verdi, Dvorák, Mozart, Duruflé and Fauré, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, The Music Makers, The Kingdom and the Dream of Gerontius, and Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Te Deum.
Recognised internationally for her performances.
Deborah is a member of the Music Board for the Tait Memorial Trust in the United Kingdom, a Mentor for the Dame Nellie Melba Young Artists’ Programme, Patron of the Wagner Society of South Australia and the Opera and Song Collective in Sydney. She has been included in the Who’s Who of Australian Women since 2009. Deborah is the founder and Director of the Brycefield Estate Music Festival in the Hunter Valley, NSW. Click below for more information about the festival.
“Deborah Humble revealed herself to be an artist at the height of her dramatic and vocal powers. Hard it is to imagine a more impassioned account of this scene. This was grand singing and acting that shook the house…fortunate are we to have heard Humble in this role.”
Melbourne Opera, Waltraute in Die Götterdämmerung, Ulumbarra Theatre, Jim Pritchard, Seen and Heard International, April 2023