Ulla National Tour begins

I’ve returned from Cambridge where our National Tour of Ulla’s Odyssey has kicked off. We gave two performances at Cambridge Junction of this award-winning opera. Please check my gigs calendar for information on our next dates!

Ulla’s Odyssey National Tour

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be playing Sylla, the baddie in award-winning new opera Ulla’s Odyssey, as it embarks on a national tour. The opera met with praise when we premiered it at London’s Kings Place last year, and is in demand with...

Royal Festival Hall today

              Today is the day! Come down to the Royal Festival Hall’s Clore Ballroom for our free, family-friendly production of Opera Blocks. A one-hour comedy introduction to opera, performances are at 12:30 and 3:30 and are...

Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall

Tomorrow is the big day: English Pocket Opera will publicly premiere their new Opera Blocks production, featuring a 20-min Ring Cycle, at the Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall. Performances are free; just turn up at 12:30 or 3:30 and you and your children can learn...

Mini-Ring at Royal Festival Hall

I’m on my way to show 2 of English Pocket Opera Company’s new 20-minute Ring Cycle. It’s part of the Power of Power series at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.  These 2 performances are our warm-up for Saturday 2 July at the Clore...

Royal Festival Hall

I’m about to sing in the first performance of English Pocket Opera’s new mini-Ring Cycle at the Southhbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. What a venue!  

Mini Ring Cycle at Royal Festival Hall

I’ve been invited to join English Pocket Opera’s production of a mini Ring Cycle at the Royal Festival Hall. This special performance will present Wagner’s epic work in a shortened performance for children on 2 July at 12:30 and 3:30 in the Clore...

Day 2 at Big Wheel Theatre

Just finished our second day at Big Wheel Theatre devising workshops for Opera Up Close’s production of Ulla’s Odyssey. Can’t wait to get the finished product on tour! 

Big Wheel Theatre company

Great first day at Big Wheel Theatre as we devise new outreach workshops for children.  Big Wheel, based in the gorgeous Exmouth Market, are taking Opera Up Close’s production of Ulla’s Odyssey and creating highly entertaining workshops that we can present...

Titania at the Royal Albert Hall

In honour of Shakespeare’s 400th birthday English Pocket Opera have staged Purcell’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Fairy Queen. I had the good fortune to play the title role, at the Royal Albert Hall. Here are some snapshots; official...

EPOC National Tour ends!

It’s been a massive 6 weeks but we’ve done it: toured Carmen to 42 schools across the country.  We’ve been featured in local papers and received hundreds of glowing testimonials.  

Tour in Bosnia

I went on tour to Bosnia with English Pocket Opera in November, demonstrating opera for primary school children on both sides of the beautiful ancient city of Mostar. The photos are now in, and I’m so glad to have them to remember this wonderful country...

English Pocket Opera National Tour begins

We’ve just finished our first week of our National Tour with English Pocket Opera Company. It took in the south coast, beginning in Bournemouth and working our way through Southampton and Portsmouth on our way to Brighton. Some photos of our workshops:

Soloist at the Sheldonian Theatre

Fantastic to return for the 5th time to the stunning Sheldonian Theatre with the sublime City of Oxford Symphony Orchestra! I was fortunate enough to sing Mozart’s concert aria “Ch’io mi scordi di the” with the brilliant Tom Poster on piano,...

Sylla in Ulla’s Odyssey

We’ve had our first preview of Ulla’s Odyssey on Sunday to a sold-out crowd! Production photographs to follow soon, but in the meantime, please enjoy a few photos of our final rehearsals in Brixton, courtesy of Christopher Tribble.  And to purchase tickets...

Rehearsals begin: Ulla’s Odyssey

We have finished our first two weeks of rehearsals for Ulla’s Odyssey, working in a great new studio space in Brixton. All the blocking is in, and our sitzprobe is on Monday near the Bank of England. We’ve had working sessions with professional puppeteer...

Ulla’s Odyssey: our Crowdfunder campaign

The next role I’m playing is in a delightful new opera called Ulla’s Odyssey, to have its world premiere at London’s Kings Place next month. Here is the brief from Opera Up Close’s Crowdfunder campaign: The show is inspired by...

New video – Concert for Nepal

Thanks to the talented Chris Marlowe who made some excellent HD videos of the Concert for Nepal last weekend. Here is the video of my performance of Rusalka’s “Song to the Moon” by Dvorak, and you can find it in my video gallery too.
Pamela Hay Soprano