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I appear briefly in the latest trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Please click here to watch!

I'll be appearing in concert with the BBC Concert Orchestra again all this week, as my February concert on "Friday Night is Music Night" has been repeated tonight on BBC Radio 2. That means you can catch the concert all week on the BBC iPlayer online by clicking here.

I have a featured role in the new Sherlock Holmes sequel, A Game of Shadows, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.  The film is due for release in December 2011, but you can see the trailer now by visiting the website for the film here.

I've just returned from a great night with the Halle Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall. In their "Last Night of the Halle Proms" concert I sang songs by Rimsky-Korsakov, Gounod, Gershwin and Bernstein, and had a blast leading the singing of "Jerusalem" and "Rule...

I've been invited to make my debut with the Halle Orchestra, as soloist in their closing concert of the season. Conducted by Stephen Bell, I will sing arias and songs by Rimsky Korsakov, Gounod, Bernstein and Gershwin in the "Last Night of the Halle Proms" concert at...

I had such fun in my debut with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on Sunday. The "Summer of Love" concert was the closing concert of the orchestra's season, and played to a sold-out City Hall under the fantastic baton of Stephen Bell. The BBC SSO's Twitter feed...

I've been invited to make my debut with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. I'll be appearing as soloist on Sunday June 26 at Glasgow's City Halls in their "Listen Here! The Summer of Love" concert, conducted by Stephen Bell. Please visit here for more details.

Monday 30th May is the last chance to see me play Nedda in Opera Up Close's production of Pagliacci. The Spectator said about the production "Tremendous, as intense and compelling as any account of this piece I have seen," and The Independent called it "the company's...

BBC Radio 2 have moved forward the broadcast date of my recent concert on their "Friday Night is Music Night" programme. It'll be broadcast this Friday 13th May at 8 PM GMT on BBC Radio 2. Please tune in to your radios, or listen live online anywhere in the world by...

Between April 29 and May 30 I will be alternating playing Nedda in Pagliacci and Mimi in La Boheme. Both productions are at London's Little Opera House, the King's Head Theatre in north London. Please come along!

The production of La Boheme in which I appeared as leading lady Mimi has just won a 2011 Olivier Award for "Best New Opera Production." Congratulations to the whole team! Here's the official site: www.olivierawards.com

The production of La Boheme in which I've appeared as Mimi is going into rep at London's Little Opera House, the King's Head in Islington. I'm on the poster: