Rayfield Artists - Gaynor Keeble


	Home News Artists Links Contact	GAYNOR KEEBLE Mezzo-soprano full biography \| photo Gaynor Keeble won scholarships to the University of Warwick and the Royal Academy of Music. She was awarded a Countess of Munster Award and in December 2001 was the winner of the London Lieder Prize. On leaving the RAM she joined the Welsh National Opera where she performed and covered many roles including the title role in Carmen, Meg Page Falstaff, Maddalena Rigoletto, Berta Barber of Seville, Marcellina Marriage of Figaro, Flora and Annina La Traviata and Ragonde Le Comte Ory. Roles with English Touring Opera include Marcellina, Tisbe La Cenerentola, Marchese Daughter of the Regiment, Baba the Turk The Rake's Progress, with other roles including Buttercup and Hebe HMS Pinafore at the Royal Festival Hall, Kate Pirates of Penzance at the Queen's Theatre in London's West End, Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes with the CBSO, Olga Eugene Onegin, Orpheus Orpheus & Euridice, Mere Jeanne Dialogue of the Carmelites, Jack The Wreckers, Priscilla in the world premiere of Silas Marner by Howard Goodall at Salisbury Festival, Rose Taverner in the world premiere of False Relations by David Stoll, Katisha for Carl Rosa in the USA and Rome, Madam Popova The Bear, Mistress Quickly Falstaff and Marcellina for Opera Project, and Delilah Samson and Delilah and Amneris Aida for Kentish Opera. Gaynor has made numerous recordings which have included the Councillor's Wife Osud conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras for EMI, and Hebe HMS Pinafore, Patience and Yeomen of the Guard for TER records. Gaynor has performed most of the oratorio repertoire, with recent appearances including Berlioz Les nuits d'été for the Warwick Festival and Elijah with the Northern Sinfonia, having also worked regularly with orchestras such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, The Philharmonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent and future highlights include her ENO debut as Katisha; her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden debut as 3rd Lady Die Zauberflöte where she returned this season to perform Voice of the Mother Tales of Hoffmann; Mother/Witch Hansel & Gretel, Hippolyta Midsummer Night's Dream and Gertrude Romeo & Juliet for Opera North; and Marcellina for Mid Wales Opera. This short biography is for information only and should not be reproduced. Please download a full biography here.