Singing in English Suzie Purkis as Carmen dominated the action whenever she was on stage. She is a true mezzo with a dark-toned, vibrant and velvety voice which was absolutely precise in diction, rhythm, and intonation. Peterborough Telegraph (2018)

UK based singer and performer Suzie Purkis began her vocal training at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where she won a scholarship and many prizes. After completing her studies, she was awarded a medal for Excellence in Performance from the Worshipful Company of Musicians and went on to complete the Opera Works course at English National Opera. Since graduating she has been employed by Diva Opera, Buxton Festival Opera, Kentish Opera, Heritage Opera and Graham Vick’s Birmingham Opera Company.

Operatic roles include Carmen (Carmen – in English) for Kentish Opera and Heritage Opera; Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors) and Juno (Semele) for Operamus; Minerve (Orphée aux Enfers) for Diva Opera; Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea) for Birmingham Conservatoire; First Witch (Dido and Aeneas) for mac Productions/Sampad.

With a special interest in performing new music, Suzie has worked directly with well-known composers such as Pierre Boulez and Louis Andriessen. She has also been a soloist on several recordings and BBC radio broadcasts and is featured on a forthcoming album by Michael Wolters. She has sung opera in a swimming pool, performed in an ice rink during public skating hours and even sung in a cage in a zoo on German television!

Plans for 2022 include: concerts with the a cappella group ‘Papagena’; her debut in the role of the Angel in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius; her debut in performing Elgar's Sea Pictures; mezzo soloist in Duruflé’s Requiem; alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah and operatic concerts with the Orchestra of St John’s.

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