Photo: Matt Jones
Rachel Speirs
Primary Skill:
Soprano
Nationality:
British
Country:
United Kingdom
Links:
Languages (fluent):
English
Experience
Opera
Lamplighter
Manon Lescaut (Puccini)
English Touring Opera
2024
Musetta
La boheme (Puccini)
Longborough Festival Opera
2024
Adina
L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti)
Longborough Festival Opera (Playground Opera)
2024
1 st soprano - Chorus
The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
English Touring Opera
2024
Teresa Bazelgette
The Great Stink (Omar Sharyhar)
English Touring Opera
2024
Modestina
Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini)
English Touring Opera
2023
Musetta
La boheme (Puccini)
Hurn Court Opera
2023
Titania/Hippolyta
The Fairy Queen (Purcell)
Longborough Festival Opera
2023
Lulu
Under the Little Red Moon (Yealland & Hepplewhite)
English Touring Opera
2023
Parrot/Warthog
Zoo! (Lucie Treacher)
English Touring Opera
2023
Lotty
The Soldier's Legacy (G.A. MacFarren)
Retrospect Opera
2023
1 st soprano - Chorus
La boheme (Puccini)
English Touring Opera
2022
1 st soprano - Chorus
The Golden Cockerel (Rimsky-Korsakov)
English Touring Opera
2022
Maria Bertram
Mansfield Park (Dove)
RNCM Opera
2020
Pamina
Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
Flat Pack Music
2019
Voice of a Bird
The Pilgrim's Progress (Ralph Vaughan-Williams)
RNCM Opera
2019
Papagena
Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
Flat Pack Music
2019
1st Soprano - Chorus
The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
British Youth Opera
2018
1st Soprano - Chorus
Carmen (Bizet)
Heritage Opera
2018
1st Soprano - Chorus
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
Heritage Opera
2018
Suor Osmina
Suor Angelica (Puccini)
RNCM Opera
2018
Chorus
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
British Youth Opera
2017
1st soprano Chorus
Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart)
RNCM
2016
1st soprano Chorus
The Merry Widow (Lehár)
RNCM
2014
Monica
The Medium (Menotti)
Oxenfoord International Summer School
2017
Zweiter Knabe
Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
RNCM Spotlight Series
2017
Zweite Dame
Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
RNCM Opera Excerpts
2017
Rose
Lakmé (Delibes)
RNCM Opera Excerpts
2016
Mary Hildebrand
Street Scene (Kurt Weill)
RNCM
2015
Mustardseed
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Benjamin Britten)
RNCM
2015
Operetta/G&S
Princess Nekaya
Utopia Limited (Gilbert & Sullivan)
National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
2022
Chorus
Oratorio/Concerts
1rst Soprano Solo
Requiem (Mozart)
Royal Albert Hall
2024
1rst Soprano Solo
B Minor Mass (Bach)
Cheshire Choral
2023
1st Soprano Solo
Messiah (Handel)
Ilkley Choral Society
2019
1st Soprano Solo
Messe Solennelle (Gounod)
Chorley and District Choral Society
2019
1st Soprano Solo
Messiah (Handel)
St Gauderic Festival, France
2019
1st Soprano Solo
Christmas Oratorio (JS Bach)
Knaresborough Choral Society
2017
1st Soprano Solo
Gloria (Vivaldi)
Knaresborough Choral Society
2017
1st Soprano Solo
The First Nowell (R. Vaughan Williams)
Manchester Philharmonic Choir
2016
Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled
Awards
The McGlashan Trust Award (2019)
Competitions
Finalist in The Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Prize (2020)
The Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss (2019)
Education
Master of Music in Performance
Royal Northern College of Music
2018–2020
Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours
Royal Northern College of Music
2013–2017