Rebecca Evans

In the 2022/23 season the soprano Rebecca Evans appeared in the world premiere of David Hackbridge Johnson’s Blaze of Glory at the Welsh National Opera, and in concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Fishguard Festival of Music and the Penarth Chamber Music Festival. In addition, she has recently sung the title role of Rodelinda at the English National Opera, the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) at the Welsh National Opera and Alice Ford (Falstaff) in her debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Other career highlights have included Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Despina (Così fan tutte), Mimì (La bohème) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Romilda (Serse) and Ginevra (Ariodante) at the English National Opera and Mimì, Countess Almaviva, Pamina, Ilia (Idomeneo), Liù (Turandot), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Angelica (Orlando) for the Welsh National Opera.

Other engagements in previous seasons have included Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Ginevra, Despina and Ilia at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Despina at the Berlin State Opera. In concert she has appeared at the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals, and regularly performs at the BBC Proms.

Rebecca Evans appears on many CD recordings, for which her awards have included a Grammy Award.

She is a Trustee of the Colwinston Charitable Trust and patron of several charities, among them Shelter Cymru, Ty Hapus and Music in Hospitals & Care Cymru / Wales. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours.