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‘The self possessed, noble-voiced Bethan Langford’ Opera Magazine
‘A standout turn’ The Times
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 cover Daisy in 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 sees Bethan make her role debut with English National Opera as Hebe in Cal McCrystal’s new production of HMS Pinafore. She will also be playing the title role in Errollyn Wallen’s world premier The Paradis Files, in a ground-breaking National tour with Graeae Theatre Company as they produce their first ever opera. Bethan will be continuing her collaboration with Snape Maltings and Gesalt Arts on a new song cycle composed by Laura Bowler, and will appear on the concert and lieder platform in Edinburgh Parliament Hall, the Much Wenlock Festival and London.
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.
‘A standout turn’ The Times
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 cover Daisy in 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 sees Bethan make her role debut with English National Opera as Hebe in Cal McCrystal’s new production of HMS Pinafore. She will also be playing the title role in Errollyn Wallen’s world premier The Paradis Files, in a ground-breaking National tour with Graeae Theatre Company as they produce their first ever opera. Bethan will be continuing her collaboration with Snape Maltings and Gesalt Arts on a new song cycle composed by Laura Bowler, and will appear on the concert and lieder platform in Edinburgh Parliament Hall, the Much Wenlock Festival and London.
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.
