Praised by The Telegraph for her “idiomatic and stylish singing”, mezzo-soprano Frances Gregory is a rising star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 23/25. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, she joined the studio of the Opéra National de Lyon for 20/21. This season she makes her debut as Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro with the Mozartists at Cadogan Hall, at the Southbank Centre in Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the OAE/Dinis Souza and with the NFM Philharmonic in Warsaw singing Maria in Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ conducted by Paul McCreesh. She also joins the Gabrieli Consort and Players on tour as 2nd Harlot in Handel’s Solomon and the Ulster Consort as alto soloist for Handel’s Messiah.
Recent engagements include alto soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass at the KKL Lucerne with the Gabrieli Consort and Arnalta in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea both at the Grange Festival and with the English Concert. She recently created the role of Laura in the world premiere of Violet (Coult) at the Aldeburgh Festival in association with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and has worked for Glyndebourne, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, English National Opera, Garsington Opera, Opera North, Buxton International Festival and Longborough Festival Opera.