British mezzo-soprano Bethany Horak-Hallett read Music at Leeds University and went on to gain a Masters in Music Performance and a Masters in Vocal Studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Bethany won second prize in the 2021 International Handel Singing Competition, and was a finalist in the 2020 Cesti Competition at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. She is 2019-2021 Rising Star of the Enlightenment.
Bethany’s opera engagements have included Kitchen Boy Rusalka (Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester); Woman Kát’a Kabanová (Glyndebourne); Cupid Venus and Adonis, Venere Il ballo delle ingrate and Enchanted Lady in Caccini La liberazione di Ruggiero (Brighton Early Music Festival); Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro (Merry Opera Company); Dorabella Così fan tutte (London Young Sinfonia); Second Witch Dido and Aeneas (Milton Abbey International Music Festival); Taa in Lewis Coenen-Rowe Collision (Grimebourne Festival) and Nerone L’incoronazione di Poppea (Trinity Laban Conservatoire).
