Caroline has most notably sung alongside José Carreras in Paris and Switzerland.
Chöe Wright has won a Tony Award for her performance on Broadway in Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème.
Matilde sings regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Caroline is from Cheshire and studied for a total of 7 years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (where she met her fellow Diamond Divas), and the prestigious National Opera Studio. Caroline’s singing has taken her all over the world, France, Germany and further afield to India and Bermuda, however, a personal highlight was singing the title role in 'The Merry Widow’, and Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) in Switzerland alongside José Carreras. Another honour was to be invited by the BBC Television to be the singing voice of Becky Sharp in their recent adaptation of Vanity Fair.
Other leading roles have been Violetta (La Traviata), the title role in Tosca, Countess Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro) and Fiordiligi (Cosi fan Tutte) for companies including The Royal Opera, Opera Holland Park and Diva Opera. Caroline has also worked for Scottish Opera on numerous occasions, notably Norina in Don Pasquale and as one of the witches in Macbe… superstition forbids us to utter the full name! Caroline has also appeared in many of the country's leading concert halls; The Barbican Hall, Kings College Cambridge and at the Birmingham Symphony Hall where Sir Simon Rattle conducted her.
Essex girl Chöe attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama alongside the two other Diamond Divas. In 2002 Chöe auditioned alongside 1000s of others and won the role of Musetta in movie director Baz Luhrmann's Broadway Production of La Bohème. From previewing in San Francisco, then opening at the Broadway Theatre in New York the reception was fantastic! For her performance as Musetta, Chöe was awarded a TONY honour, an Ovation Award and was recognised as an Outstanding Artist of 2002-2003 by the American Drama League.
Memorable Bohème moments were numerous, from having Bruno Magli design a shoe inspired by the character and called the Musetta shoe, (which she then modelled at his fashion show, singing Musetta's Waltz as she sashayed down the catwalk!) to singing at the TONY Awards at Radio City Music Hall, which was broadcast, live to millions. All made possible by the genius of Baz Luhrmann and his incredible team. In 2004 he took the show to Los Angeles for 3 months. Wherever Chöe was the Company Manager would come by her dressing room each night and tell her of the "stars" who were in to see the show - everyone came, from Nicole Kidman, Leonardo Di Caprio, Tom Hanks to Kofi Anan and opera stars Placido Domingo, Renée Fleming and José Carreras.
Prior to this she has sung many roles including Mimi (La Bohème) Countess (Marriage of Figaro) where she was lusted after by a very handsome Cherubino (Matilde as a strapping adolescent). The Merry Widow, Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte) Marguerite (Faust) Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and First Lady (Magic Flute) with Opera Holland Park, Wexford Festival Opera, Pavilion Opera, Garden Opera and at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton. Her singing her taken her all over Britain and Europe, also journeying twice to Japan. Chöe has been a guest artist with two cruise ships sailing the South China Seas and saw the Millennium in singing in Singapore
Born in Denmark but having grown up all over Europe, Matilde is a true European and as a result is one of those annoying people who can converse in any number of languages like a native! Matilde has appeared in major festivals such as the Budapest Spring Festival and under conductors such as Sir Charles Mackerras, Tony Pappano, Tony Legge and Adam Fischer. She sings regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and lately has also been dipping into some of the lighter Wagner roles. She was a prizewinner in the Bayereuth Wagner Competition last year. In 1998 the European Union Opera Company who was auditioning young singers all over Europe picked out Matilde and as a competition winner she was flown to Baden Baden to sing in the inaugural concert of the new Concert Hall. It was here that she was invited to sing Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte at the Tiroler Landesteater in Austria, her first role in a major opera house.
She studied at the Royal Danish Conservatoire in Copenhagen and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Whilst still at college all three girls sung at the Spoleto Contemporary opera festival in Italy where Luca Ronconi directed them. They were cast as old hags wearing sacks so the glamorous world of opera felt remote at the time….
Matilde soon came to realise that as a mezzo soprano the main roles available to her were as young boys and old ladies and so has performed roles such as Bianca the nurse in The Rape of Lucretia and Florence Pike the matronly housekeeper in Albert Herring, the lovesick teenage boy Cherubino lusting after the Countess (Diamond Diva Chöe) in the Marriage of Figaro, the bored Prinz Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and Hoffmann’s young friend Niklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann.