Grace Maria Wain

Mezzo-soprano

Grace hails from The Fens, and currently resides in Lanarkshire. She completed her studies at RWCMD with a BMus (Hons) and an MA in Opera Performance, and is also a Samling Artist.

Her roles include; La Zia Principessa Suor Angelica (Wexford Festival Opera), Grimgerde Die Walküre, Zweite Maid Elektra (both Regents Opera), Zweite Norn (Cover) Götterdämmerung, Melissa (Cover) La liberazione di Ruggiero (both Longborough Festival Opera), Flower Maiden Parsifal (New Palace Opera), Cercatrice 1 and (Cover) Sorella Infermiera Suor Angelica, Hippolyta (Cover) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dorabella (Cover) Così fan tutte, Dryade (Cover) Ariadne auf Naxos (all Scottish Opera) Prince Charmant Cendrillon (Fife Opera), and Zweite Dame Die Zauberflöte (Escales Lyriques).

She is joint-winner of the Carole Rees Award (Wagner Bursary) presented by The Mastersingers 2023, a qualifier and Wagner prize nominee for the final rounds of International Vocal Competition ’s-Hertogenbosch 2022 and selected for a masterclass with director John Fulljames.

This year Grace looks forward to creating the role of Rose O’Riordan in The Ballybruff Trilogy (Luke Byrne) with Opera Workshop Limerick, covering the role of Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner) with Saffron Group and returning to Regents Opera to sing the role of Erika in their Orchestral Workshop of Vanessa (Barber).


Previously for Longborough: Second Norn, Flosshilde (covers)/Götterdämmerung (2024), Second Norn (cover)/Götterdämmerung (2023)