Rebecca Evans

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

Engagements in Evans’ 2022/23 season include the role of Nerys Price the world premiere of “Blaze of Glory!” for the Welsh National Opera, Hécube in a European tour of Hector Berlioz’ “Les Troyens” with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under John Eliot Gardiner and concerts at the Wigmore Hall, the Fishguard Festival and the Penarth Music Festival.

Recent highlights include the title role in G. F. Handel’s “Rodelinda” for the English National Opera, Marschallin in Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” for the Welsh National Opera and Alice Ford in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Falstaff” in her debut for the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Career highlights have included Contessa Almaviva in “Le nozze di Figaro”, Despina in “Così fan tutte”, Pamina in “Die Zauberflöte” (all by W. A. Mozart), and Mimi in Giacomo Puccini’s “La bohème” for the Royal Opera; Governess in Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw”, Romilda in “Xerxes” and Ginevra in “Ariodante” (both by Handel) for the English National Opera and Mimi, Contessa Almaviva, Pamina, Ilia in Mozart’s “Idomeneo”, Liu in Puccini’s “Turandot”, Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel”, and Angelica in Handel’s “Orlando” for the Welsh National Opera. Her Metropolitan Opera appearances include Susanna in “Le nozze di Figaro” and Zerlina in “Don Giovanni” by Mozart; 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 Evans 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.