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 is also an alumna of 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.  During the 2011 season she appeared as Casilda in Surrey Opera's The Gondoliers; First Lady in Mantissa Opera's new production of Magic Flute and covered Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) for Stanley Hall Opera. 2010 brought performances as both Micäela (Carmen) and Adina (L'elisir d'amore) with Kentish Opera; Marenka (The Bartered Bride) with Surrey Opera at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall; and as Lisbeth in the UK premiere of Mendelssohn's The Homecoming for Ryedale Festival Opera, both in Yorkshire, and at the Grimeborn Festival, London, to critical acclaim.  


Over the last few years she has toured extensively with performances at the Festival  de la Vézère and Les Azuriales Opera Festival in France; Theatre 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.


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