Flora McIntosh studied at the Royal Northern College of Music graduating with 1st Class Honours in 2004. She works regularly with Paul Farrington and has participated in masterclasses with Jane Eaglen, Della Jones, Janice Watson, Graham Vick, Ryland Davies and Sheila Armstrong.

Flora has sung in venues such as Birmingham Symphony Hall, Westminster Cathedral and Whitehall’s Banqueting Hall; and with orchestras such as the Hallé, Orchestra do Algarve and Southbank Sinfonia. Repertoire includes Verdi Requiem; Handel Messiah and cantata La Lucrezia; Rossini Petite messe solennelle and Bach B-minor Mass. In 2006 she was the contralto soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah alongside Sir Thomas Allen.

Operatic roles include title role in Carmen, Meg Page Falstaff, 3rd Lady Die Zauberflöte, Judith Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, The Drummer The Emperor of Atlantis and Fanny Nelson/Emma Hamilton in the world premiere of Bawden’s A Sailor’s Tale, which she later recorded for NMC.

Flora made her international debut in 2000 at the Batignano Festival in Italy where she returned the following year with Handel’s cantata Armida Abbandonata. In 2006 she sang Myrtale in Thaïs for Grange Park Opera and roles in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with the European Opera Centre in Greece and Cyprus. Flora returned to Grange Park to sing 2nd Lady in a new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute in 2007. Most recently Flora sang the role of Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo for New Sussex Opera and the title role in Bizet’s Carmen for Opera Brava on tour.