Mary Bevan (soprano) has been singing from an early age, and played her first operatic role at 15, as Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.  She attended Trinity College, Cambridge, during which she studied with Alison Wells, and is now taking a gap year before taking up a place and scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
 
Past concert performances include Mozart Requiem at Portsmouth Cathedral and Cambridge West Road Concert Hall; Mozart Mass in C minor in Hertford, Wellington, Wells, and London; Eccles Semele (title role and Isis) for The Cannon’s Scholars at St Paul’s Covent Garden; Arne The Judgement of Paris (Venus) for The Cannon’s Scholars; Handel Messiah at Trinity College, Cambridge; Purcell Dido and Aeneas (First Witch) for David Owen-Norris at Yoxford Festival; a selection of Warlock songs for David Owen-Norris and the Warlock Society; Pergolesi Stabat Mater in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge; Haydn Creation at Bishop’s Stortford College; Philip Marshall Centenary Cantata with Ralph Allwood at Eton College; Handel Dixit Dominus and Bach Magnificat with the Fulham and Hammersmith Choral Society; and Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ with Tenebrae choir, Colin Davis and the LSO at the Barbican.
 
Operatic roles include Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (Cherubino); Purcell Dido and Aeneas (the Sorceress); Mozart The Magic Flute (Queen of the Night), all for Priory Opera, Berkshire; Mark Wainwright Dr Middlebottom (title role) at the Cambridge ADC; Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld (Venus) at the Cambridge Arts Theatre; Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (Susanna) for the Cambridge Operatic Society; and Bizet Carmen (Frasquita) for Opera de Baugé. Future engagements include Bach Cantata BWV11 at Tewkesbury Abbey; Bach St John Passion in Wells; and the Monteverdi Vespers at Truro Cathedral.
 
 
 
 
 
Mary Bevan soprano