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Mary Bevan

Soprano

  • Praised by Opera for her “dramatic wit and vocal control”, British soprano Mary Bevan is internationally renowned in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras and ensembles around the world. She is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist award and UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent in music and was awarded a MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2019. 

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  • Bevan’s engagements for the 2022/23 season include a return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Morgana in a new Richard Jones production of Alcina that will be conducted by Christian Curnyn, LIGHT: Bach Dances with the Hofesh Shechter Company at the Philharmonie de Paris, her debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper singing the title role of La Calisto, and a return to La Fenice, Venice as Eurydice in Gluck Orfeo and Eurydice. Further ahead she will make her debut with the Zurich Opera House.


    Last season, Bevan’s many concert appearances included Haydn The Creation at the Barbican Hall with the Academy of Ancient Music, Belinda and First Witch Dido & Aeneas with the Early Opera Company at St John’s Smith Square, a European tour of Handel Messiah with the Kammerorchester Basel, Handel Theresienmesse with the Handel and Haydn Society and Bach Mass in B minor with the Philhamonia Baroque Orchestra. Further highlights include recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Lammermuir, Osafestivalen and Oxford Lieder festivals. During the 2020/21 season she returned to Royal Danish Opera for her role debut as Marzelline Fidelio and for the production LIGHT: Bach Dances with director John Fuljames and conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen and made her debut at  the Bolshoi Theatre in David Alden’s production of Ariodante as Dalinda; in concert she sang the world premiere of Sir James MacMillan Christmas Oratorio at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and A.Bliss Rout with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.


    Opera highlights of previous seasons include Rose Maurrant in Weill’s Street Scene for Opera de Monte Carlo and Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld for English National Opera, her debut with the Danish Opera debut as Bellezza in Il Trionfo del tempo e del desinganno, the title role in Turnage’s new opera Coraline for the Royal Opera at the Barbican, her return to the English National Opera as Zerlina Don Giovanni, and her debut as Merab Saul for the Adelaide Festival. For the Royal Opera House she created the role of Lila in David Bruce The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, performed the title role in Rossi’s Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and sang Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro on the main stage. In concert she performed with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO in the world premiere of Roxanna Panufnik’s Faithful Journey, Mary in Sally Beamish The Judas Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bach Christmas Oratorio on tour in Australia with the Choir of London and Australian Chamber Orchestra, and Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music. With The English Concert, she appeared in their tour of Asia (Harry Bicket) and made her Carnegie Hall debut as Dalinda in Ariodante, and she has also performed with the BBC Concert (BBC Proms) and BBC Symphony orchestras.


    Bevan’s discography includes her art song album Voyages with pianist Joseph Middleton and Handel's Queens with London Early Opera, both released by Signum Records, Mendelssohn songs for Champs Hill Records, Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth and Handel: Ode for St Cecilia’s Day with Ludus Baroque, and Vaughan Williams Symphony No.3 and Schubert Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic. In autumn 2019 Signum released her second disc with Joseph Middleton including Lieder by Schubert, Haydn and Wolf.

    2022-2023 season / 577 words. Not to be altered without permission

Performances

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Opera repertoire

Arne
Venus Alfred
Pallas The Judgement of Paris
Emma King Alfred


Bizet
Frasquita Carmen


Britten
Emmie Albert Herring
Nieces Peter Grimes
Governess Turn of the Screw*


Bruce, D
Lila The Firework Maker’s Daughter


Donizetti
Adina L'elisir d'amore*


Gilbert & Sullivan
Yum-Yum The Mikado
Kate Yeomen of the Guard


Gluck
Eurydice Orfeo ed Eurydice


Handel
Iris Semele
Galatea Acis and Galatea
Michal / Merab Saul 
Bellezza Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Cleopatre Gulio Cesare*
Dalinda Ariodante
Atalanta Serse


Humperdinck
Gretel Hansel und Gretel*


Monteverdi
La Musica / Euridice L’Orfeo


Mozart
Pamina / Papagena Die Zauberflöte
Despina Così fan tutte
Zerlina Don Giovanni
Tamiri Il re pastore
Susanna / Barbarina / Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro
Gerechtigkeit Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots
Servilia La clemenza di Tito
Sifare Mitridate, re de Ponto


Monteverdi
Poppea L'incoronazione di Poppea*


Muhly, N
Rebecca Two Boys


Puccini
Musetta La bohème
Lauretta Gianni Schicchi


Purcell
Dido / Belinda / Second Woman Dido and Aeneas
Fairy Queen


Rossi
Title role Orpheus 


Rossini
Elvira L'Italiana in Algeri 


Stravinsky
Anne Trulove The Rake's Progress* 


Verdi
Nannetta Falstaff


Weill
Rose Maurrant Street Scene


*In preparation 

Concert repertoire

Bach
Cantatas
Christmas Oratorio
St John Passion
St Matthew Passion
Magnificat
Mass in B Minor


Berlioz
Les nuits d'été


Bizet
Te Deum


Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem


Britten
Les Illuminations
Our Hunting Fathers
Rejoice the Lamb


Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne


Delius
A Late Lark


Dutilleux
Correspondances


Dvořák
Te Deum


Fauré
Requiem


Gounod
St Cecilia Mass


Hadley, P
Fen and Flood


Handel
Dixit Dominus
Apollo e Dafne
The Triumph of Time and Truth
Israel in Egypt
Messiah
Ode on St Cecilia’s Day
Saul
Samson
Jephtha


Haydn
The Creation
Nelson Mass
The Seasons
St Paul
Theresienmesse
Paukenmess


Janáček
Diary of One who Disappeared


Lutoslawski
Chantefleurs et Chantefables


Macmillan
Seven Last Words from the Cross


Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Symphony No. 2
St Paul
Elijah


Messiaen
La Mort du Nombre


Monteverdi
Vespers


Mozart
Mass in C Minor (1st and 2nd Sop)
Requiem
Ch'io mi scordi di te?
Vespers


Orff, C
Carmina Burana


Poulenc
Gloria


Pergolesi
Stabat Mater


Ravel
Shéhérazade


Rodrigo, J
Cuatro madrigales amatorios


Rutter
Requiem
Mass for the Children


Schubert
Rosamunde


Strauss
Selection of Orchestral Songs
Wiegenlied


Stravinksy
Pulcinella


Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 3 

Sample recital programmes

1. L'invitation au voyage - The Power of the Poet: Baudelaire and Goethe


Duparc: L'invitation au voyage (Baudelaire)
Chabrier: L'invitation au voyage
Fauré: Chant d’automne
Hymne
La rançon
Hillemacher: L’ invitation au voyage


Duparc: Romance de Mignon (Goethe)
Schubert: Nur wer die sehnsucht kennt
Heiss mich nicht reden
So Lasst mich scheinen
Kennst du das Land?


de Séverac: Les hiboux (Baudelaire)
Chausson: L’albatros
de Bréville: Harmonie du soir
Debussy: Le balcon
Harmonie du soir
Le jet d’eau
Recueillement
La mort des amants
Duparc: La vie antérieure


2. The Stages of Love


Infatuation
Wolf Andenken 
Wolf O wär dein Haus (from Italienisches Liederbuch) 
Schönberg Schenk mir deinen Goldenen Kamm
Quilter Love’s Philosophy 


Flirtation
Strauss Ständchen (Sechs Lieder, Op. 2, no. 2)
Wolf Du denkst mit einem Fädchen 
Mendelssohn Hüt du dich 


Consummation
Debussy C’est l’extase langoureuse (from Ariettes Oublieés)
Charpentier La mort des Amants 
Mozart An Chloë 


Life Together
Schumann Du Ring am meinem Finger (from Frauenliebe und –Leben)
Gurney All night under the Moon
Fauré Notre Amour
Wolf Schweig einmal still
Wolf Wie lange schon (from Italienisches Liederbuch) 


Parting and Death
Schubert Erster Verlust
Britten Salley Gardens
Wolf Mir ward gesagt
Schumann Requiem 


3. Mayhem and Madness


Purcell/Britten Mad Bess
Walton Old Sir Faulk
Walton Through Gilded Trellises (from Façade)
Wolf Elfenlied
Mendelssohn Hexenlied
Monteverdi Lamento della Ninfa
Schubert Der Doppelgänger
Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia
Weir Lady Isobel and the Elf Knight (from Scotch Minstrelsy)
Liza Lehmann There are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden (Encore)

“Bevan gives a terrific performance in the title role, assertive, lyrical and superbly acted”

Guardian

"Mary Bevan was simply spectacular"

Classical source

"Mary Bevan’s bewitching Susanna. It was entirely appropriate that the first night should conclude with Bevan receiving this year’s Exceptional Young Talent award from the Critics’ Circle, because the perfection of her singing is allied to a natural dramatic gift."

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Intermusica represents Mary Bevan worldwide

Nicholas Moloney
Senior Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9926
nmoloney@intermusica.com

Jonathan Turnbull
Associate Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9907
jturnbull@intermusica.com

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Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Counter-tenor

Tim Mead

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles