Meeta Raval

Soprano

Current and recent roles include Opera Highlights concerts with WNO, Bianca/Gabriella La Rondine for Zurich Opera and Gertrude Hänsel und Gretel for Opera Holland Park. Meeta has also recently sung Cio Cio San Madam Butterfly, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, and Kadra in Will Todd’s Migrations - all for WNO. Also Eshal in Mohammed Fairouz’s Al Wasl, at Dubai Opera in a collaboration with WNO.

Meeta’s roles include Gerhilde and cover Sieglinde in Die Walküre at Longborough Festival Opera, the title role in Gustav Holst’s Savitri for the Leeds Opera Festival, Serena Porgy and Bess at Kazan Opera Theater, Nedda I Pagliacci for Welsh National Opera, Cio Cio San in Anthony Minghella’s production of Madama Butterfly at both English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, Leonora Il trovatore for Zomeropera Alden Biesen and Ópera de Oviedo, Elisabetta (cover) Don Carlos, Manon (cover) Manon Lescaut, and Girl in Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny for the Royal Opera House, Serena Porgy and Bess at Shalyapin Festival in Kazan, and Donna Anna Don Giovanni for Opera North and Welsh National Opera.

Other operatic roles include Liu Turandot for Dalhalla Festival Opera, Ortlinde in a concert performance of Act III of Die Walküre for Welsh National Opera, Cio Cio San Madama Butterfly on tour with Opera 2001 in Spain and France, Ortlinde Die Walküre for Opera North, First Flower Maiden Parsifal for English National Opera, Micaela Carmen in Banff, Canada, Teresa Benvenuto Cellini in Montepulciano, Italy, and Die Knusperhexe Hänsel und Gretel and Amaranta La fedelta premiata for Royal Academy Opera. With British Youth Opera she sang Magda in La Rondine.

After graduating with honours from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music, Meeta completed her training with a year at the National Opera Studio in London in 2009-10.

She was a grand finalist at the 2011 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, and also a Winner of Dame Eva Turner Prize for “a soprano with dramatic potential”.

Meeta has also appeared in numerous television and radio broadcasts in the UK.


Previously for Longborough: Gerhilde, Sieglinde (cover)/Die Walküre (2021)