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‘The self possessed, noble-voiced Bethan Langford’ Opera Magazine
‘The exceptional Bethan Langford’ The Times
’Bethan Langford, outstanding in the central role’ Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian
British Mezzo Soprano Bethan Langford is a graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio. She is a former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, where performances included Second Lady in Sir Thomas Allen's production of The Magic Flute, Glasha in Katya Kabanova, Giovanna in Rigoletto, and the world premier of Anthropocene by Stuart McRae. Whilst at the Guildhall, she was the recipient of the Susan Longfield prize for accomplished female singer, Paul Hamburger lieder prize and the Violette Szabo award for English Song. Bethan is a Samling Artist, a Yeoman of the Musicians’ Company and an alumna of the Verbier Festival Academy. She made her Wigmore Hall recital debut as a student in April 2015, as a Musicians' Company and Concordia Foundation prizewinner, and subsequently her professional solo debut in Spring 2020. She is a proud past recipient of the Elizabeth Eagle-Bott Award for visually impaired musicians from the RNIB, and continues to champion the work of disabled musicians in the industry.
The 21/22 season saw Bethan make her role debut with English National Opera as Hebe in Cal McCrystal’s new production of HMS Pinafore. She played the title role in Errollyn Wallen’s world premier of The Paradis Files at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and National tour with Graeae Theatre Company, which went on to win a UK Theatre Award for excellence in touring. Bethan was also delighted to be the alto soloist for Smyth Mass in D under Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2022 BBC Proms. This season sees Bethan premier a new family opera, The Promise, based on the children’s novel of the same name by Nicola Davies, on a UK Tour. She will also return to ENO in the Autumn.
Other recent opera credits include the Janitor in Maxwell's The Lost Thing at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dorabella Cosi fan tutte (Bury Court Opera), Dritte Magt Elektra (Verbier Festival under Esa-Pekka Salonen), Angel 2/Marie Written on Skin (Melos Sinfonia, tour and Russian premiere at the Mariinsky theatre), Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia (Grimeborn Festival, winner of Best Opera Production at the Off West End Awards), Waltraute Die Walküre (Hackney Empire), Lehrbuben Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Noble Orphan Der Rosenkavalier (Glyndebourne Festival Opera and BBC Proms), cover Proserpina Orfeo (Royal Opera at the Roundhouse), Olga Eugene Onegin (Cambridge Philharmonic), Nancy Albert Herring (Mid Wales Opera Young Artist), Hansel Hansel und Gretel (Guernsey Symphony Orchestra), Prince Orlofsky Die Fledermaus (Clonter Opera) and Winifred Gurney A Soldier and a Maker (Iain Burnside, for Barbican Centre, Cheltenham Festival and BBC Radio 3).
As a passionate recitalist, Bethan has performed at many leading concert venues and festivals around the UK and Europe, and her lieder singing has been recorded and broadcast for BBC Radio 3. Recent engagements include recitals at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, International Lied Festival Zeist, Buxton International Festival, Ryedale Festival and Oxford Lieder Festival, her debut recital for the Aldeburgh Festival and recitals for the New Paths Festival with Libby Burgess and the Ludlow English Song Weekend with Iain Burnside. Bethan is a founding member of Schubert & Co, a vocal ensemble specialising in part song and lieder.
(Biography not to be altered without permission of the artist)
‘The exceptional Bethan Langford’ The Times
’Bethan Langford, outstanding in the central role’ Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian
British Mezzo Soprano Bethan Langford is a graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio. She is a former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, where performances included Second Lady in Sir Thomas Allen's production of The Magic Flute, Glasha in Katya Kabanova, Giovanna in Rigoletto, and the world premier of Anthropocene by Stuart McRae. Whilst at the Guildhall, she was the recipient of the Susan Longfield prize for accomplished female singer, Paul Hamburger lieder prize and the Violette Szabo award for English Song. Bethan is a Samling Artist, a Yeoman of the Musicians’ Company and an alumna of the Verbier Festival Academy. She made her Wigmore Hall recital debut as a student in April 2015, as a Musicians' Company and Concordia Foundation prizewinner, and subsequently her professional solo debut in Spring 2020. She is a proud past recipient of the Elizabeth Eagle-Bott Award for visually impaired musicians from the RNIB, and continues to champion the work of disabled musicians in the industry.
The 21/22 season saw Bethan make her role debut with English National Opera as Hebe in Cal McCrystal’s new production of HMS Pinafore. She played the title role in Errollyn Wallen’s world premier of The Paradis Files at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and National tour with Graeae Theatre Company, which went on to win a UK Theatre Award for excellence in touring. Bethan was also delighted to be the alto soloist for Smyth Mass in D under Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2022 BBC Proms. This season sees Bethan premier a new family opera, The Promise, based on the children’s novel of the same name by Nicola Davies, on a UK Tour. She will also return to ENO in the Autumn.
Other recent opera credits include the Janitor in Maxwell's The Lost Thing at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dorabella Cosi fan tutte (Bury Court Opera), Dritte Magt Elektra (Verbier Festival under Esa-Pekka Salonen), Angel 2/Marie Written on Skin (Melos Sinfonia, tour and Russian premiere at the Mariinsky theatre), Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia (Grimeborn Festival, winner of Best Opera Production at the Off West End Awards), Waltraute Die Walküre (Hackney Empire), Lehrbuben Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Noble Orphan Der Rosenkavalier (Glyndebourne Festival Opera and BBC Proms), cover Proserpina Orfeo (Royal Opera at the Roundhouse), Olga Eugene Onegin (Cambridge Philharmonic), Nancy Albert Herring (Mid Wales Opera Young Artist), Hansel Hansel und Gretel (Guernsey Symphony Orchestra), Prince Orlofsky Die Fledermaus (Clonter Opera) and Winifred Gurney A Soldier and a Maker (Iain Burnside, for Barbican Centre, Cheltenham Festival and BBC Radio 3).
As a passionate recitalist, Bethan has performed at many leading concert venues and festivals around the UK and Europe, and her lieder singing has been recorded and broadcast for BBC Radio 3. Recent engagements include recitals at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, International Lied Festival Zeist, Buxton International Festival, Ryedale Festival and Oxford Lieder Festival, her debut recital for the Aldeburgh Festival and recitals for the New Paths Festival with Libby Burgess and the Ludlow English Song Weekend with Iain Burnside. Bethan is a founding member of Schubert & Co, a vocal ensemble specialising in part song and lieder.
(Biography not to be altered without permission of the artist)
