Meanwhile, a few pics from Rugby to whet your appetite…..

Glad to see Will out and about

My first glimpse of the concert venue…..

I’ve sung in some beautiful venues, but Temple Speech Room, Rugby, really takes the biscuit, with an acoustic to DIE for!!!!

This is a really wonderful programme which I have thoroughly enjoyed preparing - really can’t wait to hear it all together with the talented young musicians of the NYGE!

See you in a few!

Bee xxx

PS After the time of life singing at The Rugby World Cup in Australia back in 2003, I am looking forward to checking out the real home of rugby, 10 years later…..

Getting excited……

….. 1 WEEK TODAY!!!!

  Don’t miss your chance to hear some of the finest music ever written, performed by The National Youth Guitar Ensemble and Soprano Belinda Evans.

I got to stand and sing where Handel, and Jimi Hendrix, once wrote their masterpieces.  Mindblowing!

Super, smiley audience, lovely venue, beautiful acoustic.

What a joy!

Thank you for having us!

NB Great exhibitions on at the moment- check them out….

http://www.handelhouse.org/

Come and join us at Oddbins, Crouch End, for some HEART-warming, Valentine’s Eve WINE-tasting…. <3

So thrilled to announce that my Charity Christmas Concert in Martock Church, this year featuring our new girl trio, The Jazz-à-belles, raised £1000 each for Saint Margaret’s Somerset Hospice, and The Guardians of Martock Church.

Thank you to all who came to support us!

Can’t wait for next year!  Martock has THE BEST Christmas Tree in all the land…..

 Me and my Jazzas -Jenny Bacon(soprano), Vanessa Heine (mezzo-soprano)

Me & Mum - Look at that tree!

Hi Everyone!

 Sincere apologies for my lack of blogging!   As you can see, it has been a pretty hectic, brilliant, non-stop year!

Please keep an eye on my GIGS page (lots of exciting events happening this year!), and please check out my new, all girl trio, www.jazz-a-belles.co.uk, and let me know what you think of our Andrew Sisters inspired style….

Lots and lots of love for 2013,

Bee xxx

Opening Night last night - what a joy to be singing, dancing and having a blast with a wonderful cast - the best bunch of people to work with!!

Having so much fun bringing to life Bizet’s awesome score, along with our 20-piece orchestra - I LOVE this opera.

Here are a few piccies to whet the palate - but you really should come along to see this production - still 5 chances to catch it across the South West!

http://www.newdevonopera.co.uk

2010 meant Mimì and Micaela.  I spent January to May playing Mimì, in what was to become Opera Up Close’s Olivier Award winning production of La bohème!  I then joined Opera Novella as Micaela in Carmen for their debut season.  This was closely followed by bohème’s exciting transfer to London’s West End!

We played to packed audiences at the Soho Theatre until September 2010, when I rejoined the company to sing Rosina in their follow up production of ‘The Barber of Seville’.

 Christmas madness ensued, and before I knew it, January arrived, and with it, the opportunity of a lifetime… to sing Fiordiligi, in Italian, in the USA!  Savannah Philharmonic were staging ‘Così fan Tutte’, and I had the most wonderful 3 weeks, rehearsing and performing the most beautiful music, and meeting and making many new friends. 

The blow of returning to a cold, wet British January was fortunately softened by one final fortnight as Mimì, in bohème’s return to the Soho Theatre.  By this time we had been nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production!
I then had the Handel Competition to get my teeth into, and was extremely pleased to make it to the last 15 singers into the Semi Final.

After a crazy 14 months of performing here, there, and literally everywhere, I took myself off to Egypt for 3 weeks R+R and a little bit more R in the form of their recent Revolution. 
It is now May already, and I am enjoying the unusually beautiful weather, cycling around London on my trusty BSA steed, and busily preparing for the various gigs listed on my GIGS page.  Hope to see you there!!!!