Rachel will make her International Handel Festival Debut on Saturday 19th May. Rachel will sing 'Virtue' in The Choice of Hercules by Handel under the direction of Laurence Cummings in the Gala Concert in the Stadhalle Gottingen at 7pm. More information can be found here.
Laurence Cummings - Conductor
Diana Moore - Hercules
Rachel Kelly - Virtue
Fflur Wyn - Pleasure
Nathan Haller - Attendant of Pleasure
Photo by Rachael Hegarty
Rachel will appear this evening, May 12th, with the Opera North Orchestra in the Leeds International Concert series in Leeds Town Hall. Rachel will be making her role debut as Marguerite in Damnation de Faust by Berlioz under the baton of Simon Wright. The cast is as follows:
Rachel Kelly - Marguerite
David Butt Philip - Faust
David Soar - Méphistophélès
Ashley Riches - Brander
"This marvellous book fascinated me from the first. I could not put it down. I read it incessantly, at meals, in the theatre, in the street!"
— Berlioz on Goethe's Faust: Part One
More information can be found here.
Having made her role debut singing Annio in La Clemenza di Tito this summer at the Glyndebourne Festival, Rachel will reprise this role at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe on Thursday 7th in a Patrick Kinmonth production. Rachel will sing under the baton of Gianluca Capuano who also conducted her Idamante with the Maggio Musicale in Florence. Further details are available here.