2021

04/02
Awards ceremony
Women of the Future Awards, online
Arts & Culture category winner

14/02
Music of the stage & screen (competition)
Leicester MusicFest, online
Adjudicator

15/02
Inspire: Valentine’s concert
Opera Holland Park, Age UK, online
Mezzo-soprano

09/06
The revolution will (not) be televised
Milton Court Concert Hall
Mezzo-soprano

16/07-17/07
Mami Wata
The Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House with Pegasus Opera
Mezzo-soprano

24/07-31/07
Around the world in 80 days
West Green House Opera
Jean Passepartout

29/07-30/07
Hansel & Gretel
Thorington Theatre in the Woods
Director, translator

17/08
woman.life.song
Edinburgh International Festival
Director
(Concert performance only due to covid)

17/08
RUNE
Hackney Round Chapel
Khye-Rell

06/09
Carmen: Reduced
The Serpentine Gallery
Black British Classical Foundation
Carmen

13/09
Négritude in the US and the Caribbean
London Festival of American Music
The Warehouse, Waterloo
Mezzo-soprano

17/09
RUNE
Tête-à-Tête, online
Khye-Rell

05/10
Songs of our sisters
Black British Classical Foundation
Mezzo-soprano

22/10-24/10
Bloom Britannia
Barefoot Opera, St Mary in the Castle
Bel, Jackie

30/10
Das Rheingold
Gafa Arts, St Mary’s Putney
Wellgunde

09/12
Points of view
Black British Classical Foundation
Mezzo-soprano

TBA/12
Mami Wata
Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre, with Pegasus Opera
Mezzo-soprano

Events in 2022 to be announced soon
including roles, recitals and recordings…

Archive

2020

12/02-06/03
Luisa Miller
English National Opera
Staff Director

07/03
Glyndebourne Opera Cup
Sky Arts
Speaker

Online 05/06-03/07
Candide
The Grange Festival, OperaVision
Chorus

Online from 14/07
What Do You Hope For?
English National Opera
Curator, director

06/09
Opera Mums
BBC Four, BBC iPlayer
Grace

Online from 08/09
The Bridge Between Breaths
formidAbility, Tête à Tête Festival
Co-director

Online from 14/09
The Agency
Olyver New Music Collective, Tête à Tête Festival
Leslie Jordan

Online from 20/09
Bubbles the Zebrafish & The No. 8 Bus
Aukoko, Tête à Tête Festival
Bubbles the Zebrafish

Online from 26/09
My Favourite Things: Britten’s Phaedra
Aukoko, Lauderdale House
Phaedra

Online on 12/10
Creative Coffee: Developing a new musical about British Black History
Reading Fringe Festival
Speaker

14/10-24/10
Porgy & Bess
Theater an der Wien
Annie (cover), Chorus

Online from 27/11
Powder Room Talks
Aukoko, Tête à Tête Festival
Speaker

Online 18/12
Inspire: Christmas concert
Opera Holland Park, Age UK
Mezzo-soprano

Online
Old American Songs
Leeds Lieder Learning and Participation
Mezzo-soprano

Online
Munkination
Royal Opera House, Visualise
Librettist

Online
Minerva Scientifica
Electric Voice Theatre
Mezzo-soprano soloist

Online
The King Cave Project
Heath Street Baptist Church
Mezzo-soprano soloist

Online
Scenes at Six: Turn of the Screw
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Mrs Grose

Postponed (date to be announced)
Carmen: Reduced
Black British Classical Foundation
Carmen

Postponed (date to be announced)
Hansel & Gretel
Cramphorn Studio Theatre, Chelmsford
Director

Postponed (date to be announced)
Around the World in 80 Days (& 18 Arias)
West Green House Opera
Passepartout

2019

16/01-31/01
Porgy & Bess
Dutch National Opera & Ballet
A Woman, Chorus

27/02-02/03
Imoinda
London Festival of American Music
Slave

27/03
Scenes at Six: The Merry Wives of Windsor, La clemenza di Tito, The Bartered Bride
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Meg Page, Sesto, Ludmila

29/03
Songs at Six: Brahms’ Liebeslieder Wälzer
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Mezzo-soprano

19/05-14/07
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Staff Director

19/06
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Goodenough College, London
Director

25/06
Four Women
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Mezzo-soprano soloist

02/08-25/08
Dead Equal
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Jo

09/09
The Trojan Women
H E R A, Dragon Hall Covent Garden
Associate Producer

14/08-16/08
Earth Ensemble
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Mezzo-soprano soloist, Narrator

22/08
If That Makes Me a Bitch, OK
Dirty Protest Theatre, Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh
Asha

04/09-07/09
R’Otello
Gafa Arts Collective, Bridewell Theatre, London
Carmen

12/09-26/09
Opera Squad
English National Opera, UK Schools Tour
Staff Director, Chorus

02/10-26/10
Shuck’n’Jive
Soho Theatre, London
Co-writer, MD

18/10
Generation
H E R A, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York
Producer

07/11-09/11
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Devon Opera, The Barnfield Exeter, Dartington Hall
Director

13/11
Songs at Six: Zarzuela
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Mezzo-soprano soloist

16/11
Black British Classical Foundation Gala
Holy Innocents Church, South Norwood
Mezzo-soprano soloist

2018

09/02
Dido & Aeneas
Leicester MusicFest
Director

11/02
A Meditation on Love
St John’s Notting Hill
Mezzo-soprano soloist

18/02
The King Cave Project
Heath Street Baptist Church, London
Mezzo-soprano soloist

25/02
The King Cave Project
Botley Baptist Church, Oxford
Mezzo-soprano soloist

26/02-05/03
Dialogues des Carmélites
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Chorus

02/03
Recital of English Song with Jonathan Jarvis
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Mezzo-soprano soloist

11/03
The King Cave Project
Heath Street Baptist Church, London
Mezzo-soprano soloist

25/03
Mozart’s Credo Mass
Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London
Alto soloist

09/04
Chineke! Orchestra
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
Chorus

21/04
Gala Concert
Leighton House Museum
Mezzo-soprano soloist

03/05-05/08
Burying the Dead
Ceruleo, UK Tour
Staff Director

07/05-08/05
Young Women, Old Women, Dead Women
H E R A, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Producer

12/05
Michael Haydn’s Requiem in C
Redhill Choral Society
Alto soloist

18/05
Scenes at Six: Macbeth
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
First Witch

07/06
Voiceworks
Wigmore Hall, London
Mezzo-soprano soloist

24/06-07/07
The Abduction from the Seraglio
The Grange Festival
Chorus

08/07
Candide
The Grange Festival
Chorus

16/09
Young Blood!
Loud Crowd, Bold Tendencies, London
Various roles

11/10-17/11
Porgy & Bess
English National Opera
A Woman, Chorus

10/11
Raising Abel
VOX & Kingdom Records, Sands Film Studios
Co-director, Ensemble

16/11-07/12
Britten’s War Requiem
English National Opera
Chorus

24/11
Dvořák’s Stabat Mater
Elgar Sinfonia, Kidderminster Town Hall
Alto soloist

13/12-14/12
The Next Jessye Norman
Blacktress, Tristan Bates Studio
Co-writer, Director