“...the part of Barbara was memorably taken by soprano Miranda Ostler who not only sang it beautifully but also gave the character a joie de vivre and a profound humanity that put flesh on a fascinating but dreamlike figure.” — The Greenwich Visitor, 2022

Miranda Ostler is currently studying for her Masters in Vocal Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance under Sophie Grimmer and Robert Bottriell. For Trinity Laban Opera, she has played the lead role (Barbara herself!) in Strozzi!, Jennifer Hamilton’s jukebox opera of works by Barbara Strozzi at Blackheath Halls (July 2022); created the role of Kael in Edward Jessen’s new operatic sonic theatre work, Syllable (January 2022); and played Selysette in scenes from Paul Dukas Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (April 2022). Other recent operatic appearances include Third Shepherd in Blow Venus & Adonis with Blackheath Halls Opera, Chérubin in scenes from Massenet Chérubin and Comtesse in Milhaud La mère coupable (Trinity Laban Opera Scenes 2021), and Cherubino in Puzzle Piece Opera’s online production of Mozart The Marriage of Figaro.

Her recent concert soloist work has had a very baroque flavour: a sell-out Handel Messiah at St John’s Smith Square with Platinum Consort, The Hanover Band and Scott Inglis-Kidger; Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium for the German Choir of London and Barbara Höfling; Bach St John Passion and numerous cantatas for the Oxford Bach Soloists and Tom Hammond-Davies. She has also performed Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore for Eynsham Choral Society and Stuart Dunlop; Handel Dixit Dominus with The Iona Consort and Benedict Lewis-Smith; multiple performances of a one-voice-per-part Bach St Matthew Passion and Monteverdi Vespers for The Bishop’s Consort and David Stancliffe; McDowall The Lord is Good with the English Chamber Singers and Martin Neary; and Filia in Carissimi Jepthe for Musica Antica Rotherhithe and Oliver Doyle.

Miranda was the soloist for Blueberry Lake Arts’ multi-laurelled dance-film Yearning, scored by Julian Marshall, and has enjoyed varied session work (including with the Eric Whitacre Singers) at Abbey Road, Air and Strongroom Studios, London. She also deputises at churches around London, including Royal Hospital Chelsea, St Peter’s Eaton Square, St Stephen’s Gloucester Road, and St Magnus the Martyr London Bridge. Miranda holds an undergraduate honours degree in Music from University College, Durham in 2015, where she was a choral scholar.