London based Soprano Arianna Rebecca Firth originally trained as a dancer with a full scholarship from the age of 13 at Italia Conti. At 16, she discovered her vocal potential and subsequently won a scholarship to the Junior Royal Academy of Music before continuing onto the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Arianna has recently completed her Undergraduate studies at the GSMD, and continues to study with Professor Susan McCulloch. Opera roles have included Mustardseed A Midsummer Night’s Dream (dir. Dinah Stabb), for GSMD Opera Scenes. As a Mezzo-Soprano, roles have included Florence Pike, Albert Herring (dir. Sally Burgess); for GSMD opera scenes; Carmen, Carmen, AIMS opera scenes (dir. Paola Cuffolo); Second Witch, Dido and Aeneas and Orfeo, Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) for JRAM Opera Scenes. Concerts include recitals at St-Martin-in-the-Fields (London), Chorus in Mahler’s 2nd Symphony with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, (and BBC Radio 3), Alto Soloist in a staged version of Brahms’ Liebeslieder, Chorus in Poulenc’s Gloria and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, and Alto Soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle, Junior Academy. Arianna has also worked with the Guildhall School Acting Department in Stephen Schwartz’s Rags, (dir. Martin Connor, chor. Bill Deamer). Most recently she has worked with Iain Burnside for a French song project at the GSMD, and with composers at the Guildhall School for Voiceworks in association with the Wigmore Hall. Masterclasses have included work with Sarah Walker, Lada Valešová, Professor Rudolf Piernay, Eugene Asti and Amanda Roocroft. Arianna loves doing concerts for charity, in particular the Hospice in the Weald, who cared for someone very dear to her heart and who passed in February 2015. She continues to work in association with the Hospice and provide entertainment for Gala evenings in order to raise money for the cause. Recent engagements in association with the Hospice include performances for The Rose Festival (Millbrook Garden Centre) and the Hospice's ‘Annual Service of Thanksgiving’, in July 2015. Future engagements include An evening for Marilyn, to be held in Spring 2016. Arianna is also a passionate singing teacher and has private students as well as being teacher of singing and musical theatre at D&B Academy of Performing Arts.
