Performer Profile
Rebecca Rudge
On graduating with a degree in Italian and German, Rebecca was a Director of a Headhunting
Company until 2003. She subsequently had coaching at The National Opera Studio and is
currently training with English National Opera Works. Rebecca has performed as a soloist in
many of the UK's most prestigious venues; The Symphony Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, The
Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Bridgewater Hall, with orchestras including The Orchestra of the
Age of The Enlightenment, and in recital with Malcolm Martineau and Donald Maxwell.
Highlights of her operatic career include: For the Buxton Festival - Heloise in Offenbach's
Bluebeard, Vespetta Pimpinone by Telemann, Coryphee Armide, Gluck, and cover Mrs Ford
Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor. Lady Ella Patience, Aline Sorceror, Mabel Pirates and
Josephine HMS Pinafore for the London Operetta Company, Carl Rosa and the International
G&S Festival, numerous roles for English Bach Festival at the Linbury Theatre, St. John's
Smith Square and The Banqueting House, including leads in Acis and Galatea, Alceste and
Belinda Dido and Aeneas. Other roles include: Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit The Beggar’s
Opera by Gay/Britten with The Opera Project, Giulietta Hoffmann, Zerlina Don Giovanni, 1st
Niece Peter Grimes, Annchen Der Freischutz, Alexis L’Ile de Tulipatan by Offenbach, and
Maria West Side Story. Rebecca recorded Coralie in Balfe’s Maid of Artois. She has broadcast
regularly on BBC radio 4.
Rebecca has an extensive oratorio repertoire, highlights include Handel’s Messiah at the QEH
and with The OAE, Handel's Samson, Mozart C Minor Mass and Requiem and Bach B Minor
Mass at St John’s Smith Square, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle with Thames Philharmonic
Choir, Monteverdi Vespers with The Wayneflete Singers in Winchester Cathedral, Exultate
Jubilate and Faure and Brahms Requiems with Manchester Bach Choir, Bizet Te Deum, Biber
Requiem with Bath Bach Festival in Bath Abbey and Orff's Carmina Burana with Perth Choral
Society, Mendelssohn Elijah with Bath Philharmonia.
Future engagements include Carmina Burana with The CBSO under Simon Halsey at The
Symphony Hall, Messiah at The Cadogan Hall and Cheltenham Town Hall, Verdi Requiem Perth
Concert Hall and St George's Cathedral, Mahler 4th Symphony and Debussy Mallarme settings
with Bath Philharmonia, Adina Elisir D’amore, Vespetta Pimpinone, Josephine HMS Pinafore,
Mabel Pirates, music society recitals with Donald Maxwell from Thurso to Crediton.
