Biography
Rebecca’s 2022-2023 season at a glance:
Engagements during 2022 / 2023 include Mother / Witch Hansel and Gretel for Mid Wales Opera, Wellgunde Götterdämmerung for Longborough Festival Opera, Blackford Pietà and Vaughan-Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with City of Bristol Choir, Elgar Sea Pictures at Truro Cathedral with Christopher Gray, Messiah on tour with the Norwegian Wind Ensemble with Christopher Moulds, Mozart Requiem in Tewkesbury Abbey, the world première of Looking West by Julian Philips & Rebecca Hurst for Nova Music Opera at Ryedale & Presteigne Festivals and Milton Court, London, with George Vass, Pergolesi Stabat Mater at the Cotswold Music Festival with Steven Devine, Tippett A Child of Our Time in Newcastle Cathedral, Verdi Requiem at Marlborough College, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham and the world première of The Sky Engine by Richard Peat & Timothy Knapman at Jam on the Marsh Festival in July 2023 conducted by Michael Bawtree .
Born in Mid Wales, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones studied at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama & The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she was awarded the Independent Opera Scholarship, The WCOM Allcard Award, The MBF Sybil Tutton Award, became a Samling Artist and graduated with distinction. Whilst at the RCS, she sang Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro, The Composer Ariadne auf Naxos (Rostov State Theatre, Russia), The Muse / Nicklausse Les contes d’Hoffmann and Maria Akhrossimova War and Peace. She began her career as a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, making her professional debut in the title role of Carmen.