Soloists

Bethany Horak-Hallett - Sorceress

Bethany Horak-Hallett is establishing strong credentials as a fine interpreter of Handel, Mozart and their contemporaries on both the opera stage and the concert platform. 

She recently made her Royal Swedish Opera début as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), having previously sung the role for Garsington Opera for whom she has also performed Dorabella (Così fan tutte). She sang Virtue (The Choice of Hercules) in a production for the London Handel Festival, and more Handel follows with Tirinto (Imeneo) for Cambridge Handel Opera Company. Bethany will make her English National Opera début in Mozart’s Women: A Musical Journey (to be filmed for Sky Arts) and creates the role of Yolanda in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Railway Children for the Glyndebourne Autumn season. 

Bethany’s versatility as a performer has seen her take the roles of Lady Psyche (Princess Ida) with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus) for IF Opera, alongside contemporary works such as Thomas Adès' The Exterminating Angel (conducted by the composer) which marked her Opéra de Paris début.

Bethany has sung Bach, Handel and Haydn with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music and with the Dunedin Consort directed by John Butt. She made her BBC Proms début with the Monteverdi Choir, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. Other ensembles with whom she has performed include The Royal Northern Sinfonia with Dinis Sousa, The English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Kraemer and the National Symphony Orchestra, Dublin. 

Bethany includes pianists Natalie Burch, Ian Tindale and Dylan Perez plus harpsichordist Steven Devine amongst her recital partners. She has given programmes at the London Handel, Oxford International Song and Ludlow Festivals. 

Bethany Horak-Hallett read Music at Leeds University and completed her training at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. She was a Rising Star of the Enlightenment and a Samling Artist and won Second Prize in the 2021 International Handel Singing Competition. 

(Photo: Emma Jane)