Rosa’s recent operatic engagements include Emmie, in Opera North’s production of Albert Herring, and Lucilla in La Scala di Seta for the RNCM’s Spring Opera. Other opera roles include; Yum-Yum (The Mikado, Opera Anywhere), First Lady and Papagena (The Magic Flute, Opera Anywhere), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas, Opera Sparks), The Journalist (Silverwood, Manchester Community Opera) and Miss Havisham (Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night, RNCM Student Opera). She created the leading role of ‘The Soprano’ in ‘Interrupted’, a modern comedic opera which premiered at the Cardiff Atmospheres Festival. She has also performed with Welsh National Opera in their Young Company production of Cherry Town Moscow, and was part of the street chorus in the RNCM’s 50th Anniversary production of Bernstein’s Mass.
During her studies at the RNCM, Rosa won the prestigious 2024 Frederic Cox Award for Singing. She is a member of the RNCM Songsters, with whom she has performed in a variety of concerts, recitals, and galas. In 2022, she won first prize in the John Ireland Song Prize competition, administered by the John Ireland Trust.
Rosa is an accomplished choral and consort singer, and she regularly performs with professional consorts; Kantos, The Swan Consort and Exodus, and has worked under the baton of Harry Christophers, as part of Genesis Sixteen. Recent solo oratorio work includes Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate, and Schubert’s Mass in Ab.

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