Miranda Keys

Australian/British soprano Miranda Keys studied for her music degree at the Guildhall School Of Music in London. She completed the opera course at the Royal College of Music where she held the President Emerita Scholarship, the most prestigious scholarship the college can confer. She completed her studies at the National Opera Studio. She won the 2006 Wagner Society Bayreuth Bursary and the 2005 John Scott Award from Scottish Opera and was a main prize and song prize finalist in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World in 2007. Operatic roles include ELISABETH (Trieste and Bologna), ARIADNE (Salzburg Landestheater and Leipzig Oper), ODABELLA (Lyric Opera Dublin), MUSETTA (Glyndebourne on Tour), LADY BILLOWS (Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Salzburg Landestheater), ELETTRA (Glyndebourne on Tour), WITCH/MOTHER (Scottish Opera on Tour). Other roles include COUNTESS, FIORDILIGI, MISS WINGRAVE, MISS JESSEL, FEMALE CHORUS and MADAME LIDOINE. She has sung 3rd NORN in Götterdämmerung under Sir Simon Rattle (in Aix and Salzburg), Sir Mark Elder (for the Halle orchestra, recorded on the Halle label), Ed Spanjaard (Reisopera), and Donald Runnicles (BBC Proms). GERHILDE in Die Walküre for the Halle conducted by Sir Mark Elder and released on the Halle label (Manchester International Festival), AUFSEHERIN in Elektra (Rome and Bari), FIDELIO conducted by Gianandrea Noseda (Turin). She has sung AUFSEHERIN in Paris (Philippe Jordan), BBC Proms (Semyon Bychkov), MARIANNE LEITMETZERIN at Glyndebourne Festival, BBC Proms (Robin Ticciati), ROH (Andris Nelsons), Zürich (Fabio Luisi), Münich (Petrenko) and Carnegie Hall, New York (Petrenko). MISS JESSEL and LADY BILLOWS for Glyndebourne on Tour and Munich, Zwangsarbeiterin in Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk at the ROH (Sir Antonio Pappano). Future highlights include returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Münich, Carnegie Hall and debuts in Valencia (Spain) and Boston, USA. As well as an international career, Miranda enjoys bringing opera to the people of Bath and Bristol by busking. She has been featured on BBC Points West and Ali Vowles bbc radio show. Her performances are always an emotional experience for her audience and she enjoys busking immensely.