SorayaMafi

Soraya Mafi studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal College of Music and is a former Harewood Artist at the English National Opera.

In the 2024/25 season she will sing Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto for both Welsh National Opera and Irish National Opera and Pamina in Die Zauberfloete for Opera North. Following a great success as Valencienne in Glyndebourne's The Merry Widow conducted by John Wilson, she returns to the festival for Michal in Barrie Kosky's renowned production of Handel's Saul. In concert she sings Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the RIAS Kammerchor on tour in Europe, Viennese concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Handel arias with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen.

In the last two seasons she has sung Tytania A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Glyndebourne Festival and Opéra de Rouen; Susanna Le nozze di Figaro for Glyndebourne on Tour, and Ismene Mitridate, re di Ponto for Garsington Opera.

Elsewhere she has sung Tytania, Musetta La bohème, Despina Così fan tutte, Mabel The Pirates of Penzance and Yum Yum The Mikado for English National Opera, Susanna and Gilda Rigoletto for the Seattle Opera, Susanna for Welsh National Opera, Morgana Alcina and Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress for Glyndebourne, Nanetta Falstaff for Garsington Opera, Gretel Hänsel und Gretel for Grange Park Opera and Echo Ariadne auf Naxos at the Edinburgh International Festival.

An accomplished recitalist, she has delighted audiences on tour in the UK with her programmes including Persian songs, reflecting her Iranian heritage.