| Biography | Recent and forthcoming engagements include Magdalene Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Royal Opera House and at Symphony Hall Birmingham) Carmen (title role) 2nd Norn/Waltraute Der Ring Sorceress Dido and Aeneas and Mad Margaret Ruddigore (Opera North) Adalgisa Norma and Amneris Aida (Opera Holland Park) Herodias Salome (Northern Ireland Opera) the world premiere of Julian Grants Hot House (ROH part of London 2012 Cultural Olympiad); Donna in the world premiere of David Sawers Skin Deep (Opera North and for the Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen); Fiona in the world premiere of Two Boys (English National Opera) Phoebe The Yeomen of the Guard (BBC Proms and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic the Philharmonia and the RTÉ Concert Orchestras) and Oscars Night with Carl Davis and the CBSO the Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall the Royal Northern Sinfonia the RLPO and the Malaysian Symphony Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur.
Further appearances in the UK include Gymnasiast Lulu (ROH and Teatro Real Madrid); Zaida Il Turco in Italia and Wellgunde in the Ring Cycle at The Royal Opera Covent Garden; Carmen (ETO Diva Opera) Eleanor The Music Programme (Linbury Theatre Covent Garden) Girl 3 in Sawers From Morning to Midnight and Ofreds Double The Handmaids Tale (ENO) Nancy Albert Herring and Diana Devereux Of Thee I Sing (Opera North) Hilary Major Sirius on Earth for Almeida Opera Bersi Andrea Chenier and Maddalena Rigoletto at Opera Holland Park Berthe Blond Eckbert for The Opera Group. Engagements abroad include Carmen (Bermuda) Eleanor in the premiere of Roxanna Panufniks chamber opera The Music Programme (Polish National Opera) April Showers Playing Away at the Bregenz Festival and in St Pölten Moppet Paul Bunyan Donna Skin Deep and Diana Devereux (Bregenz Festival) Lola Cavalleria Rusticana (Vietnam) Tisbe La Cenerentola Frankfurt and Opera Zuid) and Minskwoman Flight at the Adelaide Festival.
Her interest in contemporary music was initiated by a recital for the Park Lane Group at the Purcell Room where she performed Nicholas Maws The Voice of Love and premiered David Matthews From Coastal Stations. She has since performed Miss Donnithornes Maggot by Maxwell Davies Pierrot Lunaire by Schoenberg and Nouvelles Aventures by Ligeti.
Heathers oratorio and recital repertoire includes Elgars The Kingdom The Dream of Gerontius and Sea Pictures Chaussons Poème de lamour et de la mer Mahlers Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen and de Fallas El amor brujo. Concerts include Opera Norths Opera Prom in the Park the biggest free classical music concert in the UK Verdis Requiem (Winchester Cathedral) The Kingdom (Kings College Cambridge) and Mozart Mass in C minor with the London Mozart Players and Basingstoke Choral Society.
Recordings include the title role in Rutland Boughtons Queen of Cornwall (Dutton) Honour Tom Jones (Naxos) and chamber versions of both Mahlers Fourth Symphony and Les nuits dété (Somm). (Updated October 2016) |