Harries, Kathryn (1951– )

English soprano. She studied at the Royal College of Music in London and made her debut at the Festival Hall in 1977. She made her opera debut as a flower-maiden in Parsifal with the Welsh National Opera in 1993, and sang Sieglinde in 1984 and Gutrune in 1985. She sang with the English National Opera Ensemble in London from 1983, as Irene in Rienzi, Eva, Káta Kabanová, and Donna Anna in The Stone Guest. She created Hedda Gabler in Edward Harper's opera for the Scottish Opera in 1985, and sang Kundry at the New York Metropolitan Opera House in 1986 (returning as Gutrune in 1989). She sang Dido in Les Troyens/The Trojans at Lyon in 1987, for the Scottish Opera in 1990, and also at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, where she had made her debut in 1989 in the first UK performance of Berlioz's Un re in ascolto. She performed at the Orange Festival in 1992 as Carmen.