BIOGRAPHY

Rebecca Hodgetts completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music, from where she graduated in June 2006 with its highest award, a Dip. RAM and the Clifton Prize for best vocal finalist. She had previously studied at Trinity College of Music, on the Baylis Programme at the English National Opera, and at Nottingham University where she achieved a music degree with first class honours. She also won a place on the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, where she participated in masterclasses from Michael Chance and Malcolm Martineau.

Rebecca is highly in demand on the operatic stage with performances throughout the UK and abroad. Over the last few years she has toured extensively with performances at the Festival de la Vézère and Les Azuriales Opera Festival in France; Théâtre du Passage in Neuchâtel, Switzerland; and various venues in the Channel Islands. She has recently worked as a principal artist with companies such as Diva Opera (roles including Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Parthenis in Offenbach's La Belle Helene and Diane in Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers); Kentish Opera (Musetta, La Bohème); Opera Brava (Musetta, La Bohème); Buxton Festival Opera (Eléonore, Offenbach's Bluebeard); and British Youth Opera for whom she covered First Lady in their production of Magic Flute. Other recent staged appearances include the ground-breaking new production of Handel's L'allegro (cover il penseroso) at the Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, choreographed by Robyn Orlin and conducted by William Christie.

Rebecca is equally at home on the concert platform and has performed as soprano soloist in Handel's L'allegro under William Christie in the Spitalfields Festival to critical acclaim. Recent concert highlights include Mendelssohn's Elijah in Peterborough Cathedral, Purcell's King Arthur at the Snape Proms conducted by Laurence Cummings (Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme), Mozart's Exultate Jubilate with the Southern Pro Musica in Portsmouth, Poulenc's Gloria with the Slough Philharmonic, Fauré's Requiem in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London with the Brandenburg Sinfonia, and Handel's Israel in Egypt in Arundel Cathedral. In 2007 she was invited to tour northern Norway as soprano soloist in Bach's B minor Mass for Vokal Nord, and was named a prize-winner by the Leith Hill Musical Festival culminating in a performance of Mozart's Requiem with the English Festival Orchestra.

Plans for the 2010 season include a return to Kentish Opera, performing Micäela in their new production of Carmen and performances of Marenka in Smetana's Bartered Bride for Surrey Opera at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall.


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