VERSATILE Soprano Rebecca Hardwick is based in London performing in opera, recital, and oratorio.

Described by the Spectator as singing with “bright, tingling sunlight”, Rebecca is an accomplished soprano with a passion for expression and communication.

Her concert highlights for the 24/25 season include Poulenc Stabat Mater in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder with Bromley Symphony Orchestra, 2nd Fairy in Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Luxembourg Philharmonic, and a song recital with pianist Iestyn Evans and friends at the Wigmore Hall.

Operatic roles include Violetta La Traviata, Nedda I Pagliacci, Zerbinetta Ariadne auf Naxos, the title role in Rodelinda, Isabella L'inganno Felice (Rossini, Wexford Festival Opera) cover Belinda Dido’s Ghost (Errolyn Wallen, Dunedin Consort), the premiere and revival of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Venere e Adone (Staatsoper Hamburg), First Bridesmaid Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Ballet and Opera), Zwei Magd Daphne (Strauss), Dot/ Day The Enchanted Pig (Jonathon Dove). For Opera Holland Park; Una Conversa (Suor Angelica), La Cugina (Madame Butterfly), Victorian in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Will Todd, also Lindbury Studio Theatre, Covent Garden).

In concert, Rebecca covered Verdi Requiem with Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Tonhalle Zürich, and has performed the work with the English Festival Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, as well at Cadogan Hall, Holy Trinity Sloane Square, and Hampstead Parish Church. She has also sung Brahms Requiem and Schubert Mass in E Flat in Cadogan Hall. For the Three Choirs Festival; Dyson Quo Vadis, Stanford Stabat Mater, Bach St John Passion, and Howells Hymnus Paradisi and the role of Pilate’s Wife in Coleridge-Taylor The Atonement for the 2025 festival in Hereford Cathedral. With Edward Gardner, Rebecca has sung Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with the Bergen Philharmonic at the Greighallen, Norway.

Rebecca has an active interest in modernism and is an advocate for contemporary repertoire, and has performed Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire at the RCM, Stockhausen In the sky in Germany and the UK, Thomas Adès Five Eliot Landscapes and Life Story at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying György Kurtág Kafka Fragments. 

Rebecca is a member of the Hampstead Collective, with whom she has performed in a variety of concerts including song recitals of Messiaen Harawi, Strauss Brentano Lieder and Howells In Green Ways, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate and J. S. Bach Weinachtsoratorium with the Players of the Hampstead Collective, and Couperin Leçons de ténèbres with viola da gamba and theorbo.

Rebecca read Music at the University of York, before studying at the Royal College of Music with Tim Evans Jones. She then completed the Opera Works course at English National Opera, and was an Apprentice with the Monteverdi Choir.