Praised for her “idiomatic and stylish singing” (The Telegraph), mezzo-soprano Frances Gregory is a recent graduate of Royal Academy Opera, and a newly appointed Rising Star with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She begins the 24/25 season as Alcandro in L’Olimpiade with Vache Baroque and makes her debut as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro with The Mozartists at Cadogan Hall and at the Teatro Communale, Palermo, Sicily.
While studying, she was a Karaviotis Scholar, semi-finalist in the National Mozart Singing Competition, winner of the 2018 Royal Academy of Music Club Prize and the Tom Hammond Opera Prize, a RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach cantata soloist, and a member of the Academy’s prestigious Song Circle. Notable engagements have included Bach’s St. Matthew Passion conducted by Trevor Pinnock as part of the RAM Bach: the European series, her Cadogan Hall debut and her Wigmore Hall recital debut, promoting the Balladen of Carl Loewe, for Song Circle.