Hyperion Records

Rebecca Evans was born in South Wales and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has established a major operatic career in America where she has sung Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) for the Santa Fe Opera; Adele (Die Fledermaus) for the Chicago Lyric Opera; Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Ann Trulove (The Rake’s Progress) and Adina (L’Elisir D’Amore) for San Francisco Opera; and both Susanna and Zerlina for the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

In Europe, she is a regular guest at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. She has sung for the Netherlands Opera, the Opera de Lausanne, the Scottish Opera, the Welsh National Opera, the English National Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Her extensive concert experience includes appearances at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival; Gala Concerts with Andrea Bocelli in Germany and with Luciano Pavarotti in Britain; and a Gala Concert to celebrate the opening of the Welsh Assembly in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and HRH The Prince of Wales. She has performed the Bach ‘Magnificat’ with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas; Brahms ‘Requiem’ with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Tate at the Tanglewood Festival; Mahler’s Fourth Symphony on tour with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and Tadaaki Otaka, and Schumann ‘Faust Szenen’ and Brahms ‘Requiem’ at the Ravinia Festival. She has also appeared in Australia 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 and Belfast Festivals.