British mezzo-soprano Frances Gregory is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 23/25. Recent and current engagements include Laura in the world premiere of Tom Coult’s Violet for Britten Pears Arts/Music Theatre Wales, in association with The Royal Opera and subsequently nominated for a UK Achievement in Theatre Award; Apsara and La Messaggera (cover) at Opera North in its highly anticipated re-imagining of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo; Flosshilde (cover)/The Rhinegold for English National Opera; the 2021 Glyndebourne Tour and Claudio in Handel’s Silla for Northern Opera Group. During 20/21 she was a studio artist with the Opera National de Lyon and an Emerging Artist at Longborough Festival Opera, where roles included Maman, La Tasse Chinoise, and La Libellule/L’enfant et les sortilèges and Fox/The Cunning Little Vixen. She is a former Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera and was one of Laurence Cummings’ Handel House Talents for 2019-2021.
She is a graduate of the Royal Academy Opera, where she was a Karaviotis scholar, winner of the 2018 RAM Club Prize and a member of the Academy’s prestigious Song Circle, with whom she made her Wigmore Hall debut in 2019.