Fiona Kimm Fiona Kimm has performed throughout the UK, Europe and North America in an extensive operatic, oratorio and concert repertoire. Her repertoire has included Mrs Sedley in Peter Grimes, Rosa Mamai in L’Arlesiana, Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Julie in Showboat, Ericlea in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse, Sextus in La Clemenza di Tito, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Clairon in Capriccio, Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress, Madame Larina in Eugene Onegin, Wife – Sphinx – Doreen in Greek, Mlle Arvidson in Un ballo in Maschera, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff, Azucena in Il Trovatore and Fricka in Der Ring des Nibelungen. She has created many roles in new works and performed in such notable new productions as Ian Judge’s Faust for English National Opera, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Boris Godunov for the Royal Opera, London, and Peter Sellers’ Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Singing under conductors including Claudio Abbado, Edward Downes, Bernard Haitink, John Pritchard, Simon Rattle, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky, she has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Nash Ensemble. She has performed a wide range of contemporary music and many works have been written specially for her. She has a wide-ranging recital repertoire. In Flanders’ Field, which explored music and conflict in the twentieth century, received much praise at the Wigmore Hall and is now available on Quartz CD. Her other recordings include L’Enfance du Christ, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Beatrice Cenci, Simon Holt’s Canciones, Greek, Lament for a Hanging Man and Street Scene. Her broadcasts include L’Enfance du Christ (Thames Television), Sea Pictures (STV) and Greek (BBC).
Engagements in 2008 and 2009 include Jezibaba in Rusalka and Kabanicha Katya Kabanova (English Touring Opera), Jane’s Mother in Snow White (Nationale Reisopera), The Old Crone – Mrs Chin in A Night at the Chinese Opera (Scottish Opera), The Music Makers (The Anvil, Basingstoke), Elijah (York Minster) and Verdi Requiem (Brangwyn Hall, Swansea).
Singing under conductors including Claudio Abbado, Edward Downes, Bernard Haitink, John Pritchard, Simon Rattle, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky, she has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Nash Ensemble. She has performed a wide range of contemporary music and many works have been written specially for her. She has a wide-ranging recital repertoire. In Flanders’ Field, which explored music and conflict in the twentieth century, received much praise at the Wigmore Hall and is now available on Quartz CD. Her other recordings include L’Enfance du Christ, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Beatrice Cenci, Simon Holt’s Canciones, Greek, Lament for a Hanging Man and Street Scene. Her broadcasts include L’Enfance du Christ (Thames Television), Sea Pictures (STV) and Greek (BBC).
Engagements in 2008 and 2009 include Jezibaba in Rusalka and Kabanicha Katya Kabanova (English Touring Opera), Jane’s Mother in Snow White (Nationale Reisopera), The Old Crone – Mrs Chin in A Night at the Chinese Opera (Scottish Opera), The Music Makers (The Anvil, Basingstoke), Elijah (York Minster) and Verdi Requiem (Brangwyn Hall, Swansea).