Rebecca Evans
Overview
Rebecca Evans was born in South Wales and studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She has performed lead roles for opera companies across Europe and America.
Career highlights include: Contessa The Marriage of Figaro, Despina Così fan tutte, Mimì La bohème and Pamina The Magic Flute (all RBO), Governess The Turn of the Screw, Romilda Xerxes and Ginevra Ariodante (all ENO), Alice Ford Falstaff (Teatro Real Madrid) and Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier, Ilia Idomeneo, Liu Turandot, Gretel Hansel and Gretel and Angelica Orlando (all WNO). Her Metropolitan Opera appearances include Susanna The Marriage of Figaro and Zerlina Don Giovanni. She has also sung Ginevra, Despina and Ilia at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, and Despina at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin.
In the 2024/25 Season Rebecca returned to both RBO and ENO as Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro, the opera for which she is perhaps most closely associated.
She appears regularly in concert, at festivals such as the BBC Proms, and performs with orchestras including the LSO, Hallé and Accademia Santa Cecilia. A Grammy award-winning artist, she has recorded prolifically with Sir Charles Mackerras and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Rebecca is a Trustee of the Colwinston Charitable Trust and patron of several charities including Shelter Cymru, Tŷ Hapus and Music in Hospitals Wales. She was awarded a CBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours and is also an ambassador for WNO’s Associate Artist programme.
