Rebecca Evans

Rebecca Evans was born in Wales and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, her roles have included Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Despina (Così fan tutte). A regular guest at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, her roles there have included Ilia (Idomeneo), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Ginevra (Ariodante) and, most recently, Despina. Elsewhere she has sung Despina at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin; Ilia for the Netherlands Opera and Opera de Lausanne and Romilda (Xerxes), and Ginevra and Governess (The Turn of the Screw) for the ENO. A favourite at the WNO, her many roles for the company include Mimi (La bohème), Pamina, Susanna, Ilia, Norina (Don Pasquale) and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel).

She has also established a major operatic career in America where she has sung Susanna and Zerlina for the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Susanna in Santa Fe; Pamina and Adèle (Die Fledermaus) for the Lyric Opera of Chicago; and Zerlina, Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress) and Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore) for San Francisco Opera.

Engagements this season include Zerlina at Covent Garden, her role debut as Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Mimi for WNO. Future plans include Ginevra in Oviedo and Mimi at Covent Garden.

In concert she has appeared at the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals. She is a regular guest at the BBC Proms. She has sung with the San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Jeffrey Tate, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Sir Charles Mackerras, the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra with Tadaaki Otaka. In Australia she has appeared at the Melbourne International Festival and on tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

In recital, she has sung at the Wigmore Hall, London; and the Barcelona, Ravinia, Buxton, Belfast and Beaulieu-sur-Mer Festivals.

A Grammy Award winning artist, she has recorded prolifically.

Photo: Sian Trenberth