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Rachel Nicholls Home Born in Bedford, Rachel Nicholls studied at York University of York and the RCM, where prizes included the President's Rose Bowl. She made her début at London’s Royal Opera as Flowermaiden Parsifal, returning as Pepik The Cunning Little Vixen, Echo Ariadne auf Naxos and Prilepa The Queen of Spades. Other operatic engagements have included Philippa Babette’s Feast (Linbury Studio Theatre), Flora The Knot Garden, Frasquita Carmen (Scottish Opera), Erismena, Ginevra Ariodante, Elisa Tolomeo (ETO), Handel’s Susanna (Early Opera Company), Bella Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? (Almeida Opera), Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte (Longborough Festival Opera), Tatyana Eugene Onegin (Scottish Opera) and Jessie Mahagonny Songspiel (Montepulciano). Conductors with whom she has worked in opera and concert include Thomas Dausgaard, Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, Richard Hickox, Jan Latham-Koenig, Sir Simon Rattle, Masaaki Suzuki and Sir David Willcocks. Broadcasts include Flashmob - The Opera, Voices and In Tune (BBC), and recordings include the B Minor Mass (BIS), Silla (Somm), Hummel Mass in D Minor (Chandos), Music by Cecilia McDowall (Dutton) and Paul Spicer’s Easter Oratorio (Birmingham Bach Choir). Her current engagements include llia Idomeneo (New Sussex Opera), Erwartung (London Philharmonic Orchestra), Dvorak Stabat Mater (BBC), Carmina Burana (Naples), Il tramonto (Quatuor Parisii), Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (Rome) and the Verdi Requiem (King’s College, Cambridge). |
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