Frances Gregory

British mezzo-soprano Frances Gregory is a recent graduate of Royal Academy Opera. This season she sings Nancy in Britten’s Albert Herring for Clonter Opera and Claudio in Handel’s Silla for Northern Opera Group; she was also a member of the Glyndebourne chorus for their Autumn tour. Previously for MTW she covered the mezzo-soprano role in the European premiere of Philip Venables’s Denis & Katya, a co-production with Opera Philadelphia.

During 20/21 she was a studio artist with the Opéra National de Lyon and an emerging artist at Longborough Festival Opera, where her roles included Maman, La Tasse Chinoise and La Libellule in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges and Fox and Dog in Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen. She is a former Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera and was one of Laurence Cummings’s Handel House Talents for 2019–21.

Whilst studying she won the 2018 RAM Club Prize, was alto soloist for Bach’s St Matthew Passion, conducted by Trevor Pinnock, and made her Wigmore Hall recital debut for Song Circle. For her performance of Sycorax in The Enchanted Island with British Youth Opera in 2018, she was awarded the Patrick Fyffe/Dame Hilda Bracket Award from Sadler’s Wells.