Nancy Holt

Classical

At Guildhall, Nancy has been involved in Graham Johnson’s Song Guild, for which she was awarded the Paul Hamburger Prize. She was a finalist in the Chartered Surveyors Vocal Prize and will be a finalist in the 2020 Susan Longfield Prize for Female Voices. Recent highlights include performing in Graham Johnson’s lecture ‘Franz Schubert in Italy, France and England’, and in March 2020 she made her debut at the Barbican Concert Hall, performing in a Pre-LSO Artists Platform recital of Debussy songs.

Opera roles include covering Prospero in The Enchanted Island (Sams) for British Youth Opera, covering Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten) for Guildhall School of Music and Drama Opera School and Cornelia in Giulio Cesare (Handel) for King’s College London Opera Society. Opera scenes include Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), the title role in Cenerentola (Rossini), Le Prince Charmant in Cendrillon (Massenet), Nancy in Albert Herring (Britten), Nancy in Martha (Flotow) and Valentiniano in Ezio (Gluck). Nancy was a member of the Opera Holland Park Chorus 2019 for Iolanta (Tchaikovsky), and was in the chorus for The Vanishing Bridegroom (Weir) with British Youth Opera.

As an oratorio soloist, Nancy has performed Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium (Part 1), Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Vesperae solennes de confessore, Schubert’s Mass in Eb Major and Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat.

This summer, Nancy joins the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus 2020 for their productions of Dialogues des carmélites (Poulenc), L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart) and Fidelio (Beethoven).

Nancy is also part of the MYMUSO chamber choir with our other singers on the roster, please enquire with Mike or Ellen if you are interested in hiring the choir for your event.