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date = "2016-05-24T06:27:00-04:00"
discipline = "Soprano"
lastmod = "2016-05-24T06:27:00-04:00"
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publishDate = "2016-05-24T06:27:00-04:00"
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slug = "naomi-harvey"
title = "Naomi Harvey"

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Born and educated in Cornwall, Naomi Harvey studied with William McAlpine at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Having worked in an extensive and broad range of repertoire, over the last two decades Naomi has worked with many leading companies throughout Europe. Recent engagements include the title role in Puccini’s *Tosca* at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ines and cover Leonora *Il Trovatore* for Scottish Opera, Gertrud *Hansel & Gretel* with Welsh National Opera, Donna Anna *Don Giovanni*, and the covers of Senta *The Flying Dutchman*, and Minnie *The Golden Girl of the West* for English National Opera, the covers of La Comtesse de Coigny *Andrea Chénier*, and Domna Saburova *The Tsar’s Bride* for the Royal Opera House, the role of Sara in the world première of James McCarthy’s *Codebreaker* at the Barbican Hall, London, soprano soloist in The World of Opera with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, the title role in *Aida* at Shrewsbury Abbey, the soprano solo in Verdi *Requiem* at Sherborne Abbey.

Ms. Harvey’s previous seasons highlights include Marschallin *Der Rosenkavalier*, Elisabetta *Don Carlos*, Leonora *Il Trovatore*, Giorgetta *Il Tabarro*, the title role in *Tosca*, Desdemona *Otello*, Alice Ford *Falstaff*, Blanche *Dialogues des carmélites*, Violetta *La Traviata*, Liu *Turandot*, Mimi *La Bohème*, Erste Dame *Die Zauberflöte*, Hanna Glawari *The Merry Widow*, Marcellina *Le nozze di Figaro*, and Berta *Il barbiere di Siviglia* (Welsh National Opera); Emilia Marty *The Markopulos Case*, Donna Anna *Don Giovanni*, Micaela *Carmen* and Mimi *La bohème* (English National Opera); Tina *Flight* (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Magda *The Consul* and Donna Anna *Don Giovanni* (Opera Holland Park); Isabella Jobling in the world première of Will Todd’s *The Blackened Man* (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Ismene *Mitridate* (Opera Monte Carlo); Alice Ford *Falstaff* (English Touring Opera); title role in *Tosca* (Mid Wales Opera); Rosalinda *Die Fledermaus* (on tour in the USA), Ellen Orford *Peter Grimes* (Canterbury Festival).

An experienced concert artist, Naomi has performed at many leading concert halls internationally, highlights include gala concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Queen Elisabeth Hall, London, and Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Verdi *Requiem*, Tippett *A Child Of Our Time*, Britten Spring Symphony, Vaughn-Williams *Sea Symphony*, Janacek *Glagolitic Mass* and Beethoven Mass in C at the Barbican Hall, London, Mahler 8th Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall and Ely Cathedral, Will Todd’s *The Burning Road at The Sage*, Gateshead, and is a regular guest soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra for Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2). Further concert repertoire includes Beethoven 9th Symphony, Mahler 4th Symphony, Strauss *Four Last Songs*, Bruckner and Dvorak *Te Deum*, Britten *War Requiem*, Orff’s *Carmina Burana*, Handel’s *Messiah* and *Samson*, Mendelssohn *Elijah*, Mozart *Requiem* and *Exultate Jubilate*, and Brahms *German Requiem*.

In the 2015/16 season Naomi returns to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to understudy the roles of Madam Larina *Eugene Onegin*, and La Ciesca *Gianni Schicchi*, and returns to Welsh National Opera to cover Bard of Germania/Alice the Barmaid/The Queen of the Woods in the world premiere of Ian Bell’s *In Parenthesis*. On the concert platform she sings the soprano solo in Mahler’s 8th Symphony with Bournemouth Symphony Chorus at The Lighthouse, Poole, and Ely Catherdral, Verdi *Requiem* at the Royal Festival Hall, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Saint David’s Hall, Cardiff, with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama under the baton of Carlo Rizzi.