EO Company

SOPRANO

Helen May holds an MA with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music with a DipRAM for outstanding final recital. She was immensely grateful for the support of the Josephine Baker Trust and the William Gibbs Trust. Praised for her ‘vivid, velvety-rich’ voice and for displaying ‘the flexibility of tone and dramatic power that holds an audience rapt,’ Helen’s opera credits include: Poppea In EO’s OFFIE nominated production of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea; Mozart’s Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro); Despina (Cosi fan tutte); Pamina (Die Zauberflöte); and First Lady (The Magic Flute); Alcina (Alcina, Handel); Galatea (Acis and Galatea, Handel); Nerone (L'incoronazione di Poppea); Climene, (L’Egisto, Cavalli); Amastre (Xerse, Cavalli); OFFIE nomination Calisto (La Calisto, Cavalli); Diane (Hippolyte et Aricie, Rameau); Emilie (Les Indes Galantes, Rameau); Aurore, (Cephale et Procris); Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore, Donizetti);Mimi (La bohème), and cover Jenůfa (Jenůfa, Janáček). 2024 roles include Adina (L’elisir d’amore, Opera South East), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro, Cockpit Theatre). Helen is an experienced oratorio soloist and recitalist. Recent highlights include Verdi Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Brahms Eine Deutsches Requiem, Haydn The Creation, Mozart Requiem and Bach St Matthew Passion.

2025/26 Season: ​
Aurore/ Céphale et Procris/ Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

Despina / Cosi fan Tutte / Mozart

With EO:
La Gloire (Armide 2016, 2017), Despina (Cosi Fan Tutte 2018), Amastre (Xerse 2018), Diane (Hyppolyte et Aricie 2017, 2019), Galatea (Acis & Galatea 2018), Pamina (Magic Flute 2019), Calisto (La Calisto 2017, 2020), 2nd Witch (Dido & Aeneas 2021), Alcina (Alcina 2019, 2021), Emilie (Les Indes Galantes 2022), Nerone / Poppea (L’Incoronazione di Poppea 2017, 2019, 2022), L’Aurore (Céphale et Procris 2023), Barbarina / Countess / Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro 2016, 2021, 2024), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni 2025)

BARITONE

Marcio first began choral singing at the age of 9. As a young boy-soprano he performed as a soloist in Germany, Italy, and Brazil, including performances for audiences of over 32,000 people. In 1998 he travelled to the United States, where he studied in Arizona for six months, graduating from the renowned Phoenix Boys Choir. From a young age Marcio also gained extensive experience in opera, beginning as a child soloist at Palacio das Artes in Belo Horizonte, and then subsequently at the Théâtre du Capitol de Toulouse, and the Théâtre des Champs Elysees and the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris.

In 2006 Marcio received his Diplôme d'Études Musicales in voice from the Conservatoire de Toulouse, France. He obtained a Bachelor of Music degree from the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany, and a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Music. Marcio has performed the roles of Marcello in Puccini's La bohème, Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Arnalta in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Orfeo in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Mercurio in Cavalli's La Callisto, Aristone in Cavalli's Xerse, Thésée in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, Colas in Mozart's Bastien et Bastienne, and La Haine in Lully's Armide.

Marcio is also an experienced recitalist and works extensively as a vocal coach. He is fluent in seven languages.

2025/26 Season
Guglielmo / Cosi fan Tutte / Mozart

Arcas / Céphale et Procris/ Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

Previous seasons:
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni 2025), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro 2024), Arcas (Céphale et Procris 2023), Pluto (Euridice 2020), Mercurio (La Calisto 2017, 2020, 2024), Thesée, Tisiphone (Hippolyte et Aricie 2017, 2019), Aristone (Xerse 2018, 2021), Aeneas (Dido & Aeneas 2018, 2021, 2025), La Haine (Armide 2016, 2017), Arnalta (L'Incoronazione di Poppea 2015, 2017)

TENOR

British tenor Kieran White enjoys success in the UK and is emerging as a sought after artist in Europe. Recent operatic engagements include two seasons with Warsaw Chamber Opera as Castor, Castor and Pollux; Damon, Acis and Galatea, for Dorset Opera; Arnalta L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Cockpit Theatre; title-role, L'Egisto for Hampstead Garden Opera; Hippolyte, Hippolyte et Aricie, Grimeborn Festival; Acis, Acis and Galatea, Ensemble OrQuesta; Ruggiero, Caccini, La liberazione di Ruggiero; Pastore in Gagliano’s La Dafne for Brighton Early Music Festival; and Sailor, Dido and Aeneas, Grange Festival.

Upcoming engagements include Castor, Castor et Pollux with Warsaw Chamber Opera. On the recital platform he has performed with Elizabeth Kenny (lute/theorbo) and Zita Silva (Harp), at the Sherborne Music Festival. Recent engagements include Bach Weihnachtsoratorium (Evangelist and tenor solo) with Collegium Musicum, Bergen; Bach Matthäus-Passion (Evangelist) with Iain Ledingham; Bach Johannes-Passion (tenor solo) with Bristol Bach Choir; Bach Matthäus-Passion (tenor solo) with Copenhagen Soloists; Stainer Crucifixion with Edvard Grieg Kor; Bach Cantatas with Amsterdam Baroque; Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine with Edvard Grieg Kor; Bach’s B Minor Mass at the Thuringer Bachwochen in the Erfurt Dom; and Bach Johannes-Passion (Evangelist) with the ensemble Gli Angeli, in Geneva.

Kieran won Second prize in the Festival International de Musique Baroque et Sacrée de Froville and in February 2022 he was announced as a winner in the innovative Aria Borealis Bodø International Singing Competition for Early Music Singers in Norway. Upcoming engagements include a European tour and commercial recording of Lullys ATYS with Les Talens Lyrique, Narete LA FIDA NINFA at Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, the King Arthur with Vox Luminis,, Matthäus-Passion with Ars Musica, Collegium Vocale Briela and the Haags Toonkunstkoor and Messiah at Usher Hall conducted by Sir James MacMillan.

2025/26 Season:
Céphale/ Céphale et Procris/ Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

With EO:
Céphale (Céphale et Procris 2023) Valère, Tacmas (Les Indes Galantes 2019, 2022), Arnalta / Liberto / Lucano (L'Incoronazione di Poppea 2019, 2022), Oronte (Alcina 2021), Pane (La Calisto 2017, 2020), Hippolyte (Hippolyte et Aricie 2017, 2019), Acis (Acis and Galatea 2018), Renaud (Armide 2016),
Sailor (Dido and Aeneas 2016)

BASS-BARITONE

Brazilian bass-baritone Flávio Lauria graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with a Bachelor degree in singing. He has been a regular performer in Brazil, Canada and the UK, particularly favouring Mozartian roles such as Figaro, and Don Alfonso. Of his Leporello, Opera Canada commented that his aria Madamina Il Catalogo è questo was ‘flawlessly performed’, (2018). The Hastings Observer applauded his ’amiable Papageno,’ and noted that ‘He is the only Papageno I have ever come across able to do his own whistling – a magnificent feat!’ (2019). Flavio made his debut at The Cockpit in 2022, as Bellone in Rameau's Les Indes Galantes. The Stage noted that his performance ‘bursts with energy’. In 2023 took part in the world premiere of the contemporary opera O Homem Amarelo, by Brazilian composer Cyro Delvizio, as Mario de Andrade, and in the UK premiere of Elisabeth Jaquet de la Guerre’s opera Cephale et Procris, performing the roles of Pan and Erictee. His repertoire also includes Vodník (Rusalka), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Comus (Charpentier's Plaisirs de Versailles), Giove (Cavalli's La Calisto), Seneca (Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea), Melisso (Händel's Alcina), Colline (La boheme), Nicholas (Barber's Vanessa) and Morales (Carmen).  

2025/26 Season:
Pan/Erictée / Céphale et Procris / Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

Don Alfonso / Cosi fan Tutte / Mozart

With EO:

Seneca (L’Incoronazione di Poppea 2015), Aeneas (Dido & Aeneas 2016), Giove (La Calisto 2017), Don Alfonso (Cosi Fan Tutte 2018), Melisso (Alcina 2019), Papageno (Magic Flute 2019), Bellone (Les Indes Galantes 2022), Pan (Céphale et Procris 2023), Bartolo / Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro 2016, 2021, 2024), Leporello  (Don Giovanni 2017, 2025)

SOPRANO

Rosemary Carlton-Willis is a British soprano, voice actor, director and editor based in the Netherlands. As a member of Ensemble OrQuesta she has performed the roles of Alcina (Alcina, 2021), Giunone/Il Destino (La Calisto, 2020) and Armide (Armide, 2017). She previously sang Phèdre (Hyppolite et Aricie, 2017), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni, 2017), Giunone/Il Destino (La Calisto, 2017) and Dido (Dido & Aeneas, 2016) with EOrQ Academy. Other roles include Juliette (Romeo et Juliette), Papagena (Der Zauberflöte), Micaëla (Carmen) Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Sophie (Werther), and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro). As guest director with Nymphes et Monstres, she created Into Darkness, Into Light (2023), a multidisciplinary installation dedicated to victims of the pandemic. Recent personal highlights include singing with XR Nederland choir's A12 blockade (2023), recording ‘2050’ by Hugh Mackay for Orange Theatre Company’s Monologue Podcast (It’s getting hot in here, 2022); co-editing the book Balanced Singing by Xenia Meijer (2022); recording the 4th-centenary CD and first complete recording of Ivan Lukačić’s Sacrae Cantiones of 1620, with Musica Adriatica (2020); and attaining the the Richard Strauss Prize  at the Elbe Internationaler Gesangswettbewerb (2019). She is currently developing a theatre installation on climate grief with filmmaker Rainer Komers and DW journalist Kate Laycock (2025).

2025/26 Season

Fiordiligi / Cosi fan Tutte / Mozart

Previous seasons:
Dido (Dido & Aeneas 2016), Armide (Armide 2017), Phèdre (Hyppolyte et Aricie 2017), Giuno (La Calisto 2017, 2020), Alcina (Alcina 2021), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro 2024), Donna Elvira / Donna Anna (Don Giovanni 2017, 2025)

SOPRANO

Anna-Luise Wagner is a German soprano and linguist based in London. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, researching the seventeenth-century opera singer, writer, and courtesan Margherita Costa. Alongside her studies, Anna worked as dramaturg and translator on high-profile opera productions in Germany, Austria, Italy, and the US. She also founded Marginalia, an interdisciplinary performance collective bringing new versions of familiar repertoire to life on stage.

As a soprano with a ‘warm and generous’ voice (Opera Magazine), Anna’s repertoire ranges from early baroque opera to contemporary pieces. Her performance as ‘a genuinely funny Cherubino’ (Plays to See) in Ensemble OrQuesta’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Arcola Theatre earned her an OFFIE Award nomination for Best Performance. Other onstage highlights include title role/Partenope (Festivals Malta) conducted by Antonio Florio at the historic Teatru Manoel in Valletta; Cherubino/The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Project and Tobacco Factory); title role/Agrippina, Belinda/Dido and Aeneas, Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro and Dema/L’Egisto with Hampstead Garden Opera; Gretel/Hansel & Gretel and Juliet/Juliet & Romeo with Marginalia; as well as several roles with Cambridge University Opera including Adina/L’elisir d’amore, Micaëla/Carmen, Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare, Clorinda/La Cenerentola, title role/Sāvitri, and Despina/Così fan tutte.

As a concert soloist, Anna’s performances include Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Magnificat, Händel’s Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Great Mass in C minor and Requiem, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Verdi’s Requiem, Brahms’s Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder, Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël, Fauré’s Requiem, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and Dyson’s The Canterbury Pilgrims. Anna is also a keen recitalist and has created the title role of Green Opera’s Fillu, a Lieder-opera telling the love story of Eugenie Schumann, daughter of Clara and Robert, and the Austrian soprano Marie Fillunger.

2025/26 Season

Dorine / Céphale et Procris/ Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

Previous seasons:

Sorceress (Dido & Aeneas 2021), Fatime (Les Indes Galantes 2022), Amore / Damigella (L’Incoronazione di Poppea 2022), Dorine (Céphale et Procris 2023), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro 2024), Zerlina (Don Giovanni 2025)

SOPRANO

Yorkshire Soprano, Poppy Shotts, is an alumna of the Royal College of Music, London and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her performances at the 2021 Grimeborn Festival awarded her an OFFIE nomination for Best Opera Performance, and a special mention in The Observer: "...a newfound talent".

A 2018 Lies Askonas Finalist, 2019 Somerset Song Prize finalist, and 2018 National Mozart Competition and Royal Over-Seas League Semi-Finalist, Poppy has been supported by the Countess of Munster, Derek Butler Award, Henry Wood Award and the Il Circolo Italian Cultural Award.

Poppy was the soprano soloist for the 2020 Naxos recording of Massenet's Visions with the RSNO. Concert work includes Peer Gynt (LPO, Cadogan Hall), Mahler's 4th Symphony (RCS) and French Melodie with Roger Vignoles (RCM). Poppy joined the chorus of Scottish Opera in 2020.

Opera credits include Madame Goldentrill (Pulp Rocket Theatre, Lamport Hall), Crocodile (Hull Urban Opera Digital Horror Opera), Barbarina, (RCM Opera School, directed by Sir Thomas Allen), Léïla, (RCM Opera Scenes, directed by Matthew Monahan), Nedda, (RCM Opera Scenes, directed by Polly Graham), Cleopatra (RCM Opera Scenes, directed by Stuart Barker), Pamina with Ensemble OrQuesta, Susanna with Matchbox Opera, Soprano Soloist for Satie’s Socrates one woman work with Hull Urban Opera, Dew Fairy at the St. Magnus International Festival, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflote (2018), and Abigail Williams in The Crucible (2019) with the Berlin Opera Academy. Poppy joined the chorus of Scottish Opera in 2020 and has since performed in productions of Don Giovanni (2022) and Falstaff (2021). She will perform in the 2023 Scottish Opera production of Carmen.

2025/26 Season:
Procris/ Céphale et Procris/ Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

Previous seasons:

Procris(Céphale et Procris 2023), Drusilla(L'Incoronazione di Poppea 2022), L'Amour / Zaire(Les Indes Galantes 2022),Marcellina(Le Nozze di Figaro 2021), Oberto (Alcina 2021),Pamina (Die Zauberflöte 2019)

BASS

Jay Rockwell is currently finishing his Master’s of Arts Management degree at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he has worked as a production assistant for opera productions of the David Seligman Opera School and orchestral manager for student-led projects, including various symphonic works performed at churches and cathedrals around Cardiff.

As a singer, Jay has performed in more than twenty opera productions in eight countries, including ten productions with Ensemble OrQuesta and Ensemble OrQuesta Opera Academy. Recent performances include Masetto (Don Giovanni), Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Giove (La Calisto), Seneca (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Melisso (Alcina), and Nerée and Jalousie (Céphale et Procris) with Ensemble OrQuesta and Ensemble OrQuesta Opera Academy, Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) with Berlin Opera Academy, and Lord Sidney (Il viaggio a Reims) and Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro) with Conservatorio Superior de Música Valencia. Jay is also excited to have assistant directed his first opera production for Ensemble OrQuesta in 2024 with Le nozze di Figaro.

2025/26 Season:

La Jalousie / Céphale et Procris/ Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

With EO: 

Melisso (Alcina 2023), Seneca (L’Incoronazione di Poppea 2023), La Jalousie (Céphale et Procris 2023), Giove (La Calisto - 2024), Antonio (Le Nozze di Figaro 2021, 2024), Masetto (Don Giovanni 2022, 2025)

BARITONE

Following a successful career as a tenor on European and Israeli stages, Oshri Segev has transitioned to baritone repertoire, where he has already made significant debuts. He is based in London

Segev has sung under the batons of Zubin Mehta, Kurt Mazur, Asher Fisch, Alain Guingal Roberto Abbado, Daniel Oren, Michele Gamba, Sebastiano Rolli, Giuliano Carella, Patrick Summers and Dan Ettinger.  

Segev's engagements as a Baritone included:Don Giovanni in Mozart's Don Giovanni (L'Orchestra della Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi (Trieste).

Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'Amore (Opera South-East and the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra in Hastings) and a Concert recital in Trieste.

Past engagements included Ferrando in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Count Almaviva in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, and Don Curzio in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Sailor in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Ramiro in Rossini's Cenerentola, Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir D'amore, Tamino in The magic flute, Arbace in Idomeneo, Podesta in La finta Giardiniera, Judge and Servant in Un ballo in maschera, a Messenger  in Aida, Gastone in La Traviata, Conte di Lerme in Don Carlo, Abdallo in Nabucco, Ruiz in Il Trovatore, Captain in Simon Boccanegra by Verdi, Spoleta in Puccini's Tosca , Schmidt in Massenet's Werther, Older brother in Heggie's Dead Man Walking, Remendado in Bizet's Carmen, Natanael and Spalanzani in Offenbach's The tales of Hoffmann and, Servant in R. Strauss's Salome.

 Segev is a recipient of the 2006-2010 Buchman-Mehta School of music (Tel-Aviv University) scholarship,
2013-2014 America-Israel Cultural fund Scholarship, the 2018 Ronen Foundation Scholarship, the 2018 Buchholtz scholarship on behalf of IVAI and the 2018 Coster-Newman Scholarship (Canada) for the Emerging Artist.   

2025/26 Season
Guglielmo / Cosi fan Tutte / Mozart

With EO:

Ferrando (Cosi Fan Tutte 2018), Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro 2024), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni 2025)

SOPRANO

Dr. Tara Venkatesan is an Indian soprano and cognitive scientist. Opera highlights include: Galatea in Galatea, Clori (lead) in L’Egisto, Cassandra in La Didone, Thalia in La Morte d’Orfeo (Yale Baroque Opera Project), Sandman in Hansel and Gretel (Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama), Flore in Cephale et Procris, Drusilla in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro (Ensemble Orquesta), Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice, and Mensajera in Loyola (for which she was nominated for a 2023 Offie Award). 

Tara has a B.S. in Cognitive Science from Yale University and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, and Health Magazine. She is currently Director of Cognitive Science Research at Universal Music Group. 

2025/26 Season:

Flore / Céphale et Procris/ Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

With EO:

Flore (Céphale et Procris 2023), Drusilla (L’Incoronazione di Poppea 2023), Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro 2024), Iris (Semele 2024), 2nd Woman (Dido & Aeneas 2025)

BARITONE

Jack is a London-based baritone noted for his “vocal sensitivity and dramatic conviction” (The Stage) and “sterling, resolute” characterisation (Opera Now). He trained with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and then the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has been a Britten Pears Young Artist, Garsington Alvarez Young Artist, London Festival Opera Young Artist and a Live Music Now Artist. Recent opera roles include Borée in the UK premiere of Jacquet de La Guerre Céphale et Procris (Ensemble OrQuesta, Grimeborn), for which he was nominated for an OffWestEnd Award for Opera Performance, Aeneas in Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Overstrand Festival of Early Music), Lord Dunmow in Berkeley A Dinner Engagement (Staircase Opera), Guglielmo in Mozart Così fan tutte (Camden Fringe) and Pollux in Rameau Castor et Pollux (The Opera Company, Sheldonian Theatre and Stour Music Festival). Concert highlights include Tavener Veil of the Temple step out baritone soloist (Monteverdi Choir, Edinburgh International Festival), Handel Messiah (Kosovo Philharmonic 25th Anniversary Concert), Mendelssohn Elijah (De La Warr Pavilion), Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs (London Concert Choir) and 16th century Florentine music for the 500th anniversary of the birth of Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence). Jack made his Aldeburgh Festival debut in a recital of songs by Korngold and Schumann.

2025/26 Season:
Borée/ Céphale et Procris/ Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

With EO:

Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro 2021), Osman / Huascar (Les Indes Galantes 2022), Borée (Céphale et Procris 2023)

TENOR

John Twitchen is a versatile tenor who particularly enjoys performing opera and oratorio, and has extensive experience as a choral and ensemble singer. He has collaborated with various ensembles in London, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and the Southeast, including I Fagiolini, Orchestra of St John’s, Gesualdo Six, St Martin’s Voices, and Academy of English Voices. He is a regular soloist with Armonico Consort, Billingshurst Choral Society, Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra, and Mosaic Voices at the New West End Synagogue. As an operatic tenor, John has performed roles with opera companies across the UK, including Longborough Festival Opera, Opera Southeast, Dorset Opera, Carshalton Opera, Riverside Opera, Ensemble OrQuesta, and London BelCanto Festival. As a young baritone, John was a member of Glyndebourne Youth Opera 3 for three years while studying music at Sussex Downs College, Lewes, before transitioning to tenor and graduating from the Chichester Conservatoire with a first-class BMus in Vocal Performance. He then became a choral scholar at St Martin in the Fields, before joining the Sloane Square Choral Society Scholarship Program sponsored by the Royal Ballet & Opera. He now works in London as a freelance musician and a transcription artist. John has performed various operatic roles, including Nemorino in L’Elisir D’Amore, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Remendado in Carmen, Alfredo in Die Fledermaus and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. He had the pleasure of singing Vassal in Wagner’s Ring Cycle with Longborough Festival Opera, and joined the Dorset OperaSummer School for three years performing Eugine Onegin, Verdi’s Macbeth, Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, Gounod’s Faust and Massenet’s Le Cid. He also performed for the late Kathryn Harris in the National Opera Studio. He is also an experienced oratorio singer, and has worked with choral societies in London, Oxfordshire, Newcastle and the Southeast. Roles include Evangelist in Bach’s St John’s Passion, Elijah in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Uriel in Haydn’s Creation, Jesus in Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge and tenor solos in Stainers Crucifixion, Puccini’s Messa Di Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem and Grand Mass, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.

2025/26 Season:

La Jalousie / Céphale et Procris/ Jacquet de la Guerre (Recording)

With EO: 

La Rage (Céphale et Procris 2023), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni 2025)

SOPRANO

Canadian soprano Rachel Allen has been praised for bringing “great tenderness” and “seductive power” to her singing. Particularly lauded for her interpretations of baroque repertoire, she has performed with leading period ensembles in Canada and the UK. Recent roles include Dido (Dido and Aeneas) at Cadogan Hall, Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Morgana (Alcina) with Ensemble OrQuesta and Venus in Blow’s Venus and Adonis at the Ryedale Festival, where Opera Magazine admired her “pleasing period-style soprano…[she] moved with a grace not often found among singers”. Rachel holds a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Alison Wells, supported by a Rob Anderson Award and a Help Musicians UK Postgraduate Award.

Rachel was a semi-finalist in both the 2024 Cesti International Singing Competition and the International Haydn Competition in Rohrau, and won the New Elizabethan Award with Londinium Consort. She made her recital debut at Wigmore Hall in February 2025 with Londinium Consort . She is a 2025 Young Artist with the Musician’s Company and Brighton Early Music Festival. Her interest in historical performance extends beyond the stage: while an undergraduate at the Royal Northern College of Music, she co-authored an entry for Grove Music Online on the 18th-century Handelian soprano Élisabeth Duparc (La Francesina), in collaboration with Dr Cheryll Duncan.

A keen ensemble singer, Rachel has sung with the Monteverdi Choir, BBC Singers, Gabrieli Consort, and chorus of Opera Atelier. In 2025, she looks forward to the release of her debut album, Crossing Paths, with Londinium Consort, supported by the Continuo Foundation, as well as recitals at Sinfonia Smith Square, City Music Society, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Leeds International Concert Season.

With EO:

Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro 2024), Poppea, Valletto / Fortuna (L’Incoronazione di Poppea 2022, 2023), Morgana (Alcina 2021)