Biography

Mary Bevan Soprano Praised by Opera for her “dramatic wit and vocal control” in stand-out performances of Baroque, Classical and contemporary repertoire, Mary Bevan appears regularly with leading orchestras and ensembles worldwide.

During the 2025/26 season, Bevan makes her debut with the Dutch National Opera as Neola in a new Michel van der Aa commission entitled Theory of Flames, sings the role of Pat Nixon in John Adams’s Nixon in China conducted by the composer in Rome, returns to the Semperoper Dresden as Michal in Handel’s Saul, and appears in concert as Almirena in Rinaldo on tour with the English Concert (Harry Bicket) and as Galatea in Acis and Galatea with the Early Opera Company (Christian Curnyn). Other concert plans include Handel’s Messiah with the Gabrieli Consort (Paul McCreesh), Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Netherlands Bach Choir (Richard Egarr), John Adams’s Le Livre de Baudelaire with The Hallé (John Adams), Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Aurora Orchestra (Nicholas Collon) and a return to Wigmore Hall for a solo evening recital.

In recent seasons Bevan has sung the title role of La Calisto with the Bayerische Staatsoper, La Folie in Platée for the Opernhaus Zurich, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and Morgana in Alcina with Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Morgana with the Royal Ballet and Opera, Eurydice in Orfeo ed Eurydice for Teatro La Fenice, Dalinda in Ariodante at the Bolshoi Theatre, Rose Maurrant in Weill’s Street Scene for the Opera de Monte Carlo and Teatro Real Madrid, and Bellezza in Il Trionfo del tempo e del desinganno and Marzelline in Fidelio for the Royal Danish Opera. Her many roles for the English National Opera include Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Yum-Yum in The Mikado and Despina in Cosi fan Tutte. Elsewhere, Bevan has sung the title roles of Rossi’s Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and of Turnage’s Coraline at the Barbican, and appeared as Lila in David Bruce’s The Firework-Maker’s Daughter.

Bevan’s many recent concert appearances have included her Carnegie Hall debut as Dalinda with the English Concert, Creation at the Barbican with the Academy of Ancient Music, Sally Beamish’s The Judas Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and her return to the 2022 BBC Proms with Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Bevan has toured extensively across Europe, Australia, Asia and the US with the Kammerorchester Basel, Australian Chamber Orchestra and English Concert (Harry Bicket), and has performed numerous world premieres, including Sir James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, A. Bliss’s Rout with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Roxanna Panufnik’s Faithful Journey with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. She has also sung with the Handel and Haydn Society Boston, Philharmonia Baroque, and the BBC Symphony and BBC Concert orchestras, and appears regularly in recital at Wigmore Hall.

Bevan’s wide-ranging discography includes numerous releases on Signum Records and her most recent, Elegy, is for release in October 2025; also for the label are a recording of orchestral French song entitled Visions Illuminées, art song albums Voyages and Divine Muse with pianist Joseph Middleton, Handel’s Queens, and A Most Marvellous Party featuring the music of Noël Coward with tenor Nicky Spence. Other albums include Handel's The Triumph of Time and Truth and Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No.3 and Schubert’s Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic, Arthur Sullivan songs (Chandos), Vaughan Williams folk songs (Albion), and Brahms’s Liebesliederwaltzer (Resonus).

Bevan is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist award and UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent in music. She was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2019 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2025.

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Intermusica represents Mary Bevan worldwide

Natasha Worsley, Associate Director, Vocal & Opera
+44 (0) 7870 979 794, nworsley@intermusica.com

Jonathan Turnbull, Associate Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9907, jturnbull@intermusica.com