RebeccaEvans

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

In the 2024/25 season Rebecca returns to both the Royal Opera and the English National Opera for Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro, the opera for which she is most closely associated and in which she has previously sung Barbarina, Susanna and Contessa to great acclaim.

Recent highlights include the title role in Rodelinda for the English National Opera, Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier and the role of Nerys Price the world premiere of Blaze of Glory! for the Welsh National Opera, Alice Ford Falstaff in her debut for the Teatro Real in Madrid and Hécube in a European tour of Berlioz’ Les Troyens with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under Dinis Sousa.

Career highlights have included Contessa Le nozze di Figaro, Despina, Mimì La bohème and Pamina Die Zauberflöte for the Royal Opera; Governess The Turn of the Screw, Romilda Xerxes and Ginevra Ariodante for the English National Opera and Mimì, Contessa, Pamina, Ilia Idomeneo, Liu Turandot, Gretel Hänsel und Gretel and Angelica Orlando for the Welsh National Opera. Her Metropolitan Opera appearances include Susanna Le nozze di Figaro and Zerlina Don Giovanni; 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 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.