RebeccaEvans

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Soprano
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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Rebecca

Rebecca Evans was awarded a CBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Engagements in Rebecca’s 2023/24 season include Despina (Così fan tutte) and Nella (Gianni Schicchi) for the Welsh National Opera and Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro) for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Recent highlights include the title role in Rodelinda for the English National Opera, Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) and the role of Nerys Price the world premiere of Blaze of Glory for the Welsh National Opera, Alice Ford (Falstaff) in her debut for the Teatro Real in Madrid and Hécube in a European tour of Berlioz’ Les Troyens with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under Dinis Sousa.

Career highlights have included Contessa Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Despina, Mimì (La bohème )and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) for the Royal Opera; Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Romilda (Xerxes) and Ginevra (Ariodante) for the English National Opera and Mimì, Contessa Almaviva, Pamina, Ilia (Idomeneo), Liu (Turandot), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Angelica (Orlando) for the Welsh National Opera. Her Metropolitan Opera appearances include Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni); at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich she has sung Ginevra, Despina and Ilia and, at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin, she has sung Despina.

Concert appearances include the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Tanglewood and Ravinia festivals and she is a regular guest at the BBC Proms. A Grammy Award-winning artist, she has recorded prolifically.

Rebecca is a Trustee of the Colwinston Charitable Trust and patron of several charities, among them Shelter Cymru, Ty Hapus and Music in Hospitals Cymru/Wales.

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