- Dialogues des Carmélites – Madame de Croissy
- Das Rheingold – Erda
- Götterdämmerung – Waltraute
Welsh/Australian mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble Madame de Croissy is a former principal artist with both Opera Australia and the State Opera of Hamburg and has sung more than seventy operatic roles worldwide.
Humble was a recipient of the Australian Opera Awards Committee Joan Sutherland Award in 2004 and a finalist at the International Wagner Competition in Seattle in 2008. She has been nominated for three Greenroom Awards.
Recordings include Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried (Naxos, Hong Kong Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden) Erda (Das Rheingold) First Norn (Götterdämmerung) and Schwertleite (Die Walküre) (Oehms, Hamburg State Opera conducted by Simone Young), Clarissa in The Love for Three Oranges (Chandos, Opera Australia conducted by Sir Richard Hickox), Marvellous Mezzo-sopranos and Contraltos (Naxos) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 conducted by Simone Young, released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2025.
Recent opera engagements include La Cieca in La Gioconda alongside Jonas Kaufmann conducted by Pinchas Steinberg and Waltraute and Fricka in three Ring Cycles conducted by Philippe Augin. She sang Erda and Waltraute in three Ring Cycles conducted by Anthony Negus and made role debuts as Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Dalila in Samson et Dalila, Clairon in Capriccio and Klytamnestra in Elektra. Earlier this year she sang Herodias in Strauss’s Salome for Regents Opera.
Recent performances on the concert platform include Waldtaube in Schonberg’s Gurrelieder, Waltraute in Wagner’s Die Walküre, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simone Young, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Western Australian Symphony conducted by Asher Fisch, Verdi’s Requiem with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Umberto Clerici, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Auckland Philharmonia, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the New Zealand Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem with the London Chorus at Cadogan Hall.
Deborah has been included in the Who’s Who of Australian Women since 2009 and is Patron of both the Wagner Society of South Australia and the Newcastle Music Festival. She is a Music Board member for the Tait Memorial Trust in London and a Mentor for the Dame Nellie Melba Young Artists’ Programme.