Mary Bevan

The British soprano Mary Bevan regularly performs with leading orchestras and ensembles worldwide, and has worked with conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Charles Mackerras and Lars Ulrik Mortensen.

Highlights of the 2023//24 season have included Dido and Aeneas with the Barokksolistene, her role debut as Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and her debut at the Zurich Opera House as La Folie in Rameau’s Platée. In the 2022/23 season she returned to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Morgana (Alcina), performed in LIGHT: Bach dances at the Philharmonie de Paris, sang Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Teatro La Fenice and made her debut at the Bavarian State Opera in the title role of Cavalli’s La Calisto.

At the Royal Opera House she has also sung Lila in David Bruce’s The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) and the title roles in the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Coraline and in Rossi’s Orpheus. Other operatic highlights have included Rose Maurrant (Street Scene) in Monte Carlo and Madrid, Eurydice (Orphée aux enfers) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) for the English National Opera, Bellezza (Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) and Marzelline (Fidelio) for the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre as Dalinda (Ariodante).

She has toured extensively with the Kammerorchester Basel, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and The English Concert. Major concert performances have included her debut at Carnegie Hall, The Creation with the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican Centre, Sally Beamish’s The Judas Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, her return to the BBC Proms for Bach’s Mass in B minor and  Arthur Bliss’s Rout with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the world premieres of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Roxanna Panufnik’s Faithful Journey with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Her extensive discography includes the albums Voyages and The Divine Muse with Joseph Middleton, Vaughan Williams’s Folk Songs Volume 1 & 2, Handel’s Queens and, most recently, Visions Illuminées.

Mary Bevan is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award and the UK Critics’ Circle Award.