| Michelle studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the
National Opera Studio, winning the prestigious Maggie Teyte Prize
in 1995. As a mezzo she worked for Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne,
Buxton Festival, Garsington, Holland Park, English Touring Opera,
Raymond Gubbay, Lille and Opera Comique Paris, taking roles such
as Cherubino, Dorabella, Annio, Rosina, Carmen, Lucretia and Hermia.
Michelle then sang such "zwischenfach" roles as Giulietta in Verdi's
Un Giorno di Regno (Buxton Festival), Zerlina in Mozart's Don
Giovanni (Garsington), Ramiro in Mozart's La finta giardiniera
(Garsington) and Ascanius in Berlioz's Les Troyens (Edinburgh
International Festival).
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| In 2004 she made her critically acclaimed soprano debut as Fiorilla
in Rossini's Il Turco in Italia for the Buxton Festival. More
recently, Michelle covered the title role in Arabella for Garsington,
for whom she took the role of Panotchka in Rimsky-Korsakov's May
Night in 2006. Future plans include Mimi in La Bohème. In concert
she has performed with the Orchestra of St John's Smith Square,
the Sorbonne Paris, the Britten Sinfonia, the Hallé Orchestra,
the Northern Sinfonia, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Tibor
Varga Sion Festival Switzerland, the Manchester Camerata, the
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Orchestra of Welsh
National Opera. |
Michelle Walton