Bethan Langford
Mezzo-soprano
Recent graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, British Mezzo Soprano Bethan Langford joins the National Opera Studio this season.
Highlights have included her debut as Dorabella (Così fan tutte) for Bury Court Opera, where she was singled out by Opera Magazine as possessing a voice “yielding warmth and a certain grandeur” (May 2017). Other credits include Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia) at the Guildhall, as well as Noble Orphan inDer Rosenkavalierfor the Glyndebourne Festival and at the BBC Proms,Nancy (Albert Herring) for Mid-Wales Opera,Hansel(Hänsel und Gretel) with theGuernsey Symphony Orchestra and Winifred Gurney in Iain Burnside’s A Soldier and a Maker at the Barbican, Cheltenham Music Festival and for BBC Radio 3. This summer Bethan joins the Verbier Festival Academy programme and later on makes her debut as Second Angel in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin with the Melos Sinfonia at the Mariinsky Theatre under Oliver Zeffman.
A keen recitalist, Bethan has already performed at many leading concert venues and festivals across the UK, and her presentation of various Schubert lieder has recently been broadcast for BBC Radio 3. Recent engagements includeher Wigmore Hall debut recital as the winner of the Concordia Foundation Founders' Prize, a Brahms programme with Bengt Forsberg for the Oxford Lieder Festival, her debut recitals for both the Aldeburgh Festival and The Tudeley Festival and recitals for the New Paths Festival with Libby Burgess and the Ludlow English SongWeekend with Iain Burnside. Concert engagements have included Messiah with Orquesta Ciudad de Granada,Elijahwith the Ashford Choral Society and Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Whilst at the Guildhall Bethan was the recipient of the Susan Longfield prize, Paul Hamburger lieder prize and the Violette Szabo award for English Song, as well as being a Samling Artist and Les Azuriales Young Artist. She is a proud past recipient of the Elizabeth Eagle-Bott Award for visually impaired musicians from the RNIB.
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