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date = "2017-10-27T17:06:00-04:00"
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Rebecca Evans was born in South Wales, and studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Highlights in Rebecca's 2016/17 season include her first Marschallin in a new production of *Der Rosenkavalier* for the Welsh National Opera, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the Royal Northern Sinfona/Lars Vogt, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/Tomáš Hanus, Handel's *Messiah* at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Brian Wright, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra/Grant Llewellyn and also with the Philharmonia/Benjamin Zander and Elgar's *Spirit of England* with the CBSO/Nicholas Collon.

Next season she returns to the Royal Opera, Covent Garden as Erste Dame *Die Zauberflöte* and to the English National Opera in the title role of *Rodelinda*.

She has sung Contessa *Le nozze di Figaro*, Mimì *La bohème*, Pamina *Die Zauberflöte*, Zerlina *Don Giovanni* and Despina *Così fan tutte* at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Ginevra *Ariodante*, Despina, Ilia *Idomeneo* and Susanna *Le nozze di Figaro* at the Bayerische Staaatsoper, Munich and Despina at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. At the English National Opera she has sung the title role in *Rodelinda*, Governess *The Turn of the Screw* and Romilda *Xerxes* and Ginevra. Her many roles for the Welsh National Opera have included Angelica *Orlando*, Liu *Turandot*, Mimì, Contessa, Pamina and Gretel *Hänsel und Gretel*.  In the USA she has sung Susanna and Zerlina for the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Susanna in Santa Fe; Pamina and Adèle *Die Fledermaus* for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Zerlina, Anne Trulove *The Rake's Progress* and Adina *L'elisir d'amore* for the San Francisco Opera.

In concert she has appeared at the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals and she is a regular guest at the BBC Proms. Recent highlights have included Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester/Blomstedt and with the London Symphony Orchestra/Gardiner, *A Child of our Time* with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/Rizzi, *The Apostles* with the Hallé Orchestra/Elder and Brahms' *Ein Deutsches Requiem* with the Accademia Santa Cecilia/Pappano.

A Grammy Award winning artist, she has recorded prolifically including Marzelline, Pamina and Gretel with Sir Charles Mackerras, Ilia with David Parry and Laila with Brad Cohen (Chandos); Nanetta with Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Philips); a series of Gilbert and Sullivan recordings with Sir Charles Mackerras and a solo recording of Italian songs (EMI).

Rebecca is a Trustee of the Colwinston Charitable Trust and patron of several charities, among them Shelter Cymru, Ty Hapus and Music in Hospitals Cymru/Wales.
