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Mary Bevan

Soprano

  • Praised by Opera for her “dramatic wit and vocal control”, British soprano Mary Bevan is internationally renowned in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras and ensembles around the world. She is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist award and UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent in music and was awarded a MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2019. 

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  • Bevan’s engagements for the 2023/24 season include her house and role debut as Cleopatra Giulio Cesare with the Opera di Roma, Dido Dido and Aeneas in Denmark with Barokksolistine and her debut with the Zurich Opera House as La Folie Platée. In 2022/23 she made a return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Morgana in a new Richard Jones production of Alcina conducted by Christian Curnyn, appeared in LIGHT: Bach Dances with the Hofesh Shechter Company at the Philharmonie de Paris, sang Eurydice Orfeo and Eurydice at Teatro La Fenice and made her debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper as the title role La Calisto.


    Previously for the Royal Opera House she sang Lila in David Bruce The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, performed the title roles of Rossi Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and of Turnage Coraline at the Barbican, and made her main stage debut as Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro. Elsewhere, opera highlights have included Rose Maurrant in Weill Street Scene for Opera de Monte Carlo and Teatro Real Madrid, Eurydice in Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld and Zerlina Don Giovanni for the English National Opera, Bellezza Il Trionfo del tempo e del desinganno and her role debut as Marzelline Fidelio for the Royal Danish Opera, and her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre as Dalinda in David Alden’s production of Ariodante.


    Bevan’s many recent concert appearances have included her Carnegie Hall debut as Dalinda with the English Concert, Creation at the Barbican with the Academy of Ancient Music, Sally Beamish The Judas Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and her return to the 2022 BBC Proms with Mass in B Minor. She has toured extensively across Europe, Australia, Asia and the US with the Kammerorchester Basel, Australian Chamber Orchestra and English Concert (Harry Bicket); and she has performed numerous world premiers, including Sir James MacMillan Christmas Oratorio at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, A. Bliss Rout with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Roxanna Panufnik Faithful Journey with the CBSO. She has also performed with the Handel and Haydn Society Boston, Philharmonia Baroque, and with the BBC Symphony and BBC Concert orchestras, and appears regularly in recital at Wigmore Hall, and the Leeds Lieder, Lammermuir, Osafestivalen and Oxford Lieder festivals.


    Bevan’s wide-ranging discography includes her art song album Voyages, Lieder by Schubert, Haydn and Wolf with pianist Joseph Middleton, and Handel’s Queens for Signum Records, with whom her latest disc, a recording of French Song entitled  Visions Illuminées, was released in 2023. She has also recorded Handel's The Triumph of Time and Truth and Ode for St Cecilia’s Day with Ludus Baroque, Vaughan Williams Symphony No.3 and Schubert Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic, and Mendelssohn songs for Champs Hill Records.

    2023-2024 season / 519 words. Not to be altered without permission

Performances

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Opera repertoire

Arne
Venus Alfred
Pallas The Judgement of Paris
Emma King Alfred


Bizet
Frasquita Carmen


Britten
Emmie Albert Herring
Nieces Peter Grimes
Governess Turn of the Screw*


Bruce, D
Lila The Firework Maker’s Daughter


Donizetti
Adina L'elisir d'amore*


Gilbert & Sullivan
Yum-Yum The Mikado
Kate Yeomen of the Guard


Gluck
Eurydice Orfeo ed Eurydice


Handel
Morgana Alcina
Iris Semele
Galatea Acis and Galatea
Michal / Merab Saul 
Bellezza Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Cleopatre Gulio Cesare*
Dalinda Ariodante
Atalanta Serse


Humperdinck
Gretel Hansel und Gretel*


Monteverdi
La Musica / Euridice L’Orfeo


Mozart
Pamina / Papagena Die Zauberflöte
Despina Così fan tutte
Zerlina Don Giovanni
Tamiri Il re pastore
Susanna / Barbarina / Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro
Gerechtigkeit Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots
Servilia La clemenza di Tito
Sifare Mitridate, re de Ponto


Monteverdi
Poppea L'incoronazione di Poppea*


Muhly, N
Rebecca Two Boys


Puccini
Musetta La bohème
Lauretta Gianni Schicchi


Purcell
Dido / Belinda / Second Woman Dido and Aeneas
Fairy Queen


Rossi
Title role Orpheus 


Rossini
Elvira L'Italiana in Algeri 


Stravinsky
Anne Trulove The Rake's Progress* 


Verdi
Nannetta Falstaff


Weill
Rose Maurrant Street Scene


*In preparation 

Concert repertoire

Bach
Cantatas
Christmas Oratorio
St John Passion
St Matthew Passion
Magnificat
Mass in B Minor


Berlioz
Les nuits d'été


Bizet
Te Deum


Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem


Britten
Les Illuminations
Our Hunting Fathers
Rejoice the Lamb


Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne


Delius
A Late Lark


Dutilleux
Correspondances


Dvořák
Te Deum


Fauré
Requiem


Gounod
St Cecilia Mass


Hadley, P
Fen and Flood


Handel
Dixit Dominus
Apollo e Dafne
The Triumph of Time and Truth
Israel in Egypt
Messiah
Ode on St Cecilia’s Day
Saul
Samson
Jephtha


Haydn
The Creation
Nelson Mass
The Seasons
St Paul
Theresienmesse
Paukenmess


Janáček
Diary of One who Disappeared


Lutoslawski
Chantefleurs et Chantefables


Macmillan
Seven Last Words from the Cross


Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Symphony No. 2
St Paul
Elijah


Messiaen
La Mort du Nombre


Monteverdi
Vespers


Mozart
Mass in C Minor (1st and 2nd Sop)
Requiem
Ch'io mi scordi di te?
Vespers


Orff, C
Carmina Burana


Poulenc
Gloria


Pergolesi
Stabat Mater


Ravel
Shéhérazade


Rodrigo, J
Cuatro madrigales amatorios


Rutter
Requiem
Mass for the Children


Schubert
Rosamunde


Strauss
Selection of Orchestral Songs
Wiegenlied


Stravinksy
Pulcinella


Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 3 

Sample recital programmes

1. L'invitation au voyage - The Power of the Poet: Baudelaire and Goethe


Duparc: L'invitation au voyage (Baudelaire)
Chabrier: L'invitation au voyage
Fauré: Chant d’automne
Hymne
La rançon
Hillemacher: L’ invitation au voyage


Duparc: Romance de Mignon (Goethe)
Schubert: Nur wer die sehnsucht kennt
Heiss mich nicht reden
So Lasst mich scheinen
Kennst du das Land?


de Séverac: Les hiboux (Baudelaire)
Chausson: L’albatros
de Bréville: Harmonie du soir
Debussy: Le balcon
Harmonie du soir
Le jet d’eau
Recueillement
La mort des amants
Duparc: La vie antérieure


2. The Stages of Love


Infatuation
Wolf Andenken 
Wolf O wär dein Haus (from Italienisches Liederbuch) 
Schönberg Schenk mir deinen Goldenen Kamm
Quilter Love’s Philosophy 


Flirtation
Strauss Ständchen (Sechs Lieder, Op. 2, no. 2)
Wolf Du denkst mit einem Fädchen 
Mendelssohn Hüt du dich 


Consummation
Debussy C’est l’extase langoureuse (from Ariettes Oublieés)
Charpentier La mort des Amants 
Mozart An Chloë 


Life Together
Schumann Du Ring am meinem Finger (from Frauenliebe und –Leben)
Gurney All night under the Moon
Fauré Notre Amour
Wolf Schweig einmal still
Wolf Wie lange schon (from Italienisches Liederbuch) 


Parting and Death
Schubert Erster Verlust
Britten Salley Gardens
Wolf Mir ward gesagt
Schumann Requiem 


3. Mayhem and Madness


Purcell/Britten Mad Bess
Walton Old Sir Faulk
Walton Through Gilded Trellises (from Façade)
Wolf Elfenlied
Mendelssohn Hexenlied
Monteverdi Lamento della Ninfa
Schubert Der Doppelgänger
Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia
Weir Lady Isobel and the Elf Knight (from Scotch Minstrelsy)
Liza Lehmann There are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden (Encore)

"The title role is played by the British soprano Mary Bevan, who seems made for the role of Callisto, so remarkable is the expressiveness of her stage performance, to which she lends her sumptuous beauty and the flexibility and brilliance of a crystalline and delicate soprano."

Opera World, March 2023

“Mary Bevan as Morgana brought the house down with her act-one showstopper Tornami a vagheggiar”

Guardian, November 2022

"Bevan’s control of colour and line was superb, and her sweet tone heart-winning"

Opera Today, November 2022

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Intermusica represents Mary Bevan worldwide

Natasha Worsley
Senior Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 (0) 7870 979 794
nworsley@intermusica.com

Jonathan Turnbull
Associate Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9907
jturnbull@intermusica.com

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Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Counter-tenor

Tim Mead

Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles

Saxophone

Jess Gillam

Contralto

Avery Amereau