Felicity began singing as a chorister, and later Head Girl Chorister, of Exeter Cathedral. In 2011 she graduated with First Class Honours in Music and Drama from Royal Holloway, University of London where she was also a choral scholar with the Choir of Royal Holloway, touring widely in Europe and the USA and recording exclusively for Hyperion Records. Felicity then studied with Theresa Goble on the Guildhall Artist Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2017 with Distinction.
Most recently Felicity appeared as Dorabella in Così fan tutte (Ryedale Festival Opera), Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra), and with the chorus of Bergen National Opera in Wagner’s Der fliegende Hollander. In contemporary opera Felicity has performed Golden-Tressed Maiden The Hogboon (Sir Simon Rattle/LSO/Barbican); The Hoopoe SCRAWW! (Gaggle Haus/Trebah Gardens); and Narrator Clive and Other Stories (Gestalt Arts/Peckam Asylum). Other operatic roles include Third Boy in Die Zauberflöte (Mid Wales Opera, Opera Project); Diana La Calisto, Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro (Hampstead Garden Opera); Ottavia L’incoronazione di Poppea, Fidalma Il Matrimonio Segreto, Third Lady Die Zauberflöte (GSMD).
Passionate about the song repertoire, Felicity has performed in recital at the Wigmore Hall, Holywell Music Room, Milton Court Concert Hall, London Song Festival, and Devon Song Festival. She is a Britten Pears Young Artist, 2018 Leeds Lieder Young Artist and has taken part in Mastercourses at both the Oxford Lieder Festival and Ziest International Lieder Festival. She has studied with renowned performers of the song repertoire such as Malcom Martineau, Graham Johnson, Dame Felicity Palmer, Julius Drake, Eugene Asti, Elly Ameling, Sir Thomas Allen, Wolfgang Holzmair, Robert Holl, and Sarah Walker. Her first solo recording, Jonathan Dove’s My Love is Mine for Naxos (2012), was described by Gramophone Magazine as ‘beguiling’ and ‘a sheer pleasure’.
With a love of combining theatre and song Felicity enjoys making new song-in-theatre pieces and performs regularly with SongSpiel, a song collective creating innovative performance pieces using multi-voice art song repertoire. She is currently touring in The Thought Machine, a song-in-theatre piece devised for children in collaboration with composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad and hand shadographer Drew Colby, and in 2016 toured London, Dublin, and New York in Drums & Guns, a song-in-theatre piece devised and directed by Iain Burnside. She looks forward to residencies at Snape Maltings with SongSpiel in 2019.
On the concert platform, Felicity has appeared with the London Mozart Players, the Southbank Sinfonia, the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, and the Bristol Ensemble at venues such as St John’s Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Cadogan Hall in London, NOSPR Concert Hall in Poland, Vannes Cathedral, France, and Kristiansand Cathedral, Norway, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Concert repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, Bach’s St John Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat and B minor Mass, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Paukenmesse and Harmoniemesse, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem and C minor Mass, and Rutter’s Feel the Spirit.
Felicity was the winner of the 2018 Cheltenham Baroque Singing Competition and the 2017 British Song Competition, the Sacred Aria Prize at the National Mozart Singing Competition, and was a finalist in the Susan Longfield Competition. Future highlights include appearing in Waterperry Opera Festival's new adaption of The Fairy Queen, performing Berlioz's Les suits d'été for Opera Prelude, and festival performances of The Thought Machine throughout the rest of 2019 into 2020.
Having taken part in the inaugural Genesis Sixteen choral training scheme, run by The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation, Felicity has previously enjoyed performing as a consort singer with Tenebrae, Polyphony, The Choir of the Enlightenment, Philharmonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia Voices, The King's Consort, and is a permanent member of the Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London.
Felicity is currently supported by The Opera Awards Foundation and is a member of Opera Prelude who supports young singers.
She is ever grateful for previous support of Help Musicians UK, The Guildhall School Trust, The Kathleen Trust, The Nicholas Boas Trust, The Radford Charitable Trust Cornwall, The Leathersellers' Trust, The Worshipful Company of Builders' Merchants, and The Peter Nutting Trust for supporting her through her studies.
A shorter version of Felicity's biography is available to download here.
A biography in French is available to download here.
For forthcoming performances please see the Diary section.
Most recently Felicity appeared as Dorabella in Così fan tutte (Ryedale Festival Opera), Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra), and with the chorus of Bergen National Opera in Wagner’s Der fliegende Hollander. In contemporary opera Felicity has performed Golden-Tressed Maiden The Hogboon (Sir Simon Rattle/LSO/Barbican); The Hoopoe SCRAWW! (Gaggle Haus/Trebah Gardens); and Narrator Clive and Other Stories (Gestalt Arts/Peckam Asylum). Other operatic roles include Third Boy in Die Zauberflöte (Mid Wales Opera, Opera Project); Diana La Calisto, Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro (Hampstead Garden Opera); Ottavia L’incoronazione di Poppea, Fidalma Il Matrimonio Segreto, Third Lady Die Zauberflöte (GSMD).
Passionate about the song repertoire, Felicity has performed in recital at the Wigmore Hall, Holywell Music Room, Milton Court Concert Hall, London Song Festival, and Devon Song Festival. She is a Britten Pears Young Artist, 2018 Leeds Lieder Young Artist and has taken part in Mastercourses at both the Oxford Lieder Festival and Ziest International Lieder Festival. She has studied with renowned performers of the song repertoire such as Malcom Martineau, Graham Johnson, Dame Felicity Palmer, Julius Drake, Eugene Asti, Elly Ameling, Sir Thomas Allen, Wolfgang Holzmair, Robert Holl, and Sarah Walker. Her first solo recording, Jonathan Dove’s My Love is Mine for Naxos (2012), was described by Gramophone Magazine as ‘beguiling’ and ‘a sheer pleasure’.
With a love of combining theatre and song Felicity enjoys making new song-in-theatre pieces and performs regularly with SongSpiel, a song collective creating innovative performance pieces using multi-voice art song repertoire. She is currently touring in The Thought Machine, a song-in-theatre piece devised for children in collaboration with composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad and hand shadographer Drew Colby, and in 2016 toured London, Dublin, and New York in Drums & Guns, a song-in-theatre piece devised and directed by Iain Burnside. She looks forward to residencies at Snape Maltings with SongSpiel in 2019.
On the concert platform, Felicity has appeared with the London Mozart Players, the Southbank Sinfonia, the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, and the Bristol Ensemble at venues such as St John’s Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Cadogan Hall in London, NOSPR Concert Hall in Poland, Vannes Cathedral, France, and Kristiansand Cathedral, Norway, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Concert repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, Bach’s St John Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat and B minor Mass, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Paukenmesse and Harmoniemesse, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem and C minor Mass, and Rutter’s Feel the Spirit.
Felicity was the winner of the 2018 Cheltenham Baroque Singing Competition and the 2017 British Song Competition, the Sacred Aria Prize at the National Mozart Singing Competition, and was a finalist in the Susan Longfield Competition. Future highlights include appearing in Waterperry Opera Festival's new adaption of The Fairy Queen, performing Berlioz's Les suits d'été for Opera Prelude, and festival performances of The Thought Machine throughout the rest of 2019 into 2020.
Having taken part in the inaugural Genesis Sixteen choral training scheme, run by The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation, Felicity has previously enjoyed performing as a consort singer with Tenebrae, Polyphony, The Choir of the Enlightenment, Philharmonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia Voices, The King's Consort, and is a permanent member of the Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London.
Felicity is currently supported by The Opera Awards Foundation and is a member of Opera Prelude who supports young singers.
She is ever grateful for previous support of Help Musicians UK, The Guildhall School Trust, The Kathleen Trust, The Nicholas Boas Trust, The Radford Charitable Trust Cornwall, The Leathersellers' Trust, The Worshipful Company of Builders' Merchants, and The Peter Nutting Trust for supporting her through her studies.
A shorter version of Felicity's biography is available to download here.
A biography in French is available to download here.
For forthcoming performances please see the Diary section.
