Mezzo-Soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, at the Opera Theater Center at Aspen, Colorado with Herta Glaz, and in Toronto with Patricia Kern.
Highly regarded as a versatile singer and a vivid actress, she has performed with Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English and Welsh National Operas, Opera North, Lyric Theatre Singapore, Los Angeles Opera; at the Spoleto, Batignano, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, City of London, Cheltenham, St. Endellion and Wexford Festivals, and in Lisbon, Ludwigsburg, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna, The Hague and Amsterdam. Pamela Helen Stephen’s close association with Opera Australia saw her perform many roles there including Sesto (Giulio Cesare), Nicklausse/Muse (Les Contes d’Hoffman) and the title role in Carmen.
Pamela Helen Stephen has appeared with the London Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Scottish Chamber, Royal Scottish National, Seattle Symphony and Prague Symphony Orchestras, City of London Sinfonia, BBC National Orchestra Wales, Northern Sinfonia, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, and Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.
She has made over 30 recordings including Phoebe (The Yeomen of the Guard - Mackerras), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro - Gardiner), Child (L’enfant et les Sortilèges - Previn), Second Niece (Peter Grimes), Sonya (War and Peace), Desideria (The Saint of Bleecker Street), Nancy (Albert Herring), Angelica (A Poisoned Kiss), Kate (Owen Wingrave); and several Haydn Masses with Collegium Musicum 90 (all with Hickox), and most recently Ariadne auf Naxos and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with Edward Gardner for Chandos.
Recent and future highlights include Delius A Mass of Life at the Edinburgh International Festival with Sir Andrew Davis, Tippett A Child of Our Time under Ryan Wigglesworth and a concert performance of the role of Auntie (Peter Grimes) under Vladimir Jurowski, both with the LPO; Suzuki (Madame Butterfly), Mrs Disney (The Perfect American), and Emilia (Otello) for English National Opera, Hecuba in Les Troyens for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the title roles in Giulio Cesare and Dido and Aeneas for Opera North, Annina (Der Rosenkavalier) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons, and Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus) with the Philharmonia conducted by John Wilson.
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