Pamela Hay

Soprano

Pamela's concert engagements have taken her to many countries. In London the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden invited her to sing in their Lunchtime Recital Series at the Linbury Theatre, and the Little Missenden Festival invited her to sing soprano and orchestra music of John Tavener in their John Tavener Festival celebrating his 60th birthday. She made her St. Johns, Smith Square debut singing in Mozart's Davidde Penitente under conductor John Lubbock. In Russia she appeared as soloist with the Yaroslavl Symphony Orchestra, followed by a recital tour of Moscow and St. Petersburg, in venues including the American Consulate. She has also given solo recitals and tours in Salzburg (Mozarteum), Belgium, Costa Rica and the United States (including John F. Kennedy Center, the historic Lyceum Theatre of Virginia, the Voice of America radio network, and a gala dinner for George H.W.Bush). She is the associate soprano with new orchestra “sound collective”, and has performed as soloist with choral societies across the UK in repertoire including Haydn’s Nelson Mass, the Requiem masses of Mozart, Brahms, Fauré and Rutter, Vivaldi Gloria, Handel's Messiah, and Britten Les Illuminations, about which Musical Opinion noted her “sweet, delectable soprano.”

Pamela's opera roles performed include Norina, Euridice (Gluck), Yum-Yum, Barbarina, Belinda, Créuse (British premiere of Milhaud’s Médée), Anne Page (Nicolai’s Merry Wives of Windsor), La Princesse (Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges), Elle (Poulenc’s La Voix humaine), among many others, with companies and theatres including Houston Grand Opera, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Theatre Royal Drury Lane (with BBC Concert Orchestra), Iford Opera Festival, Opera Della Luna, Carl Rosa Opera Company, Utah Festival Opera Company, Aspen Music Festival, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Greenwich Theatre and Bridewell Theatre. Most recently she played Bubikopf in The Kaiser of Atlantis in a co-production between Wigmore Hall Education Department and Up Front Opera.

Being half Polish, Pamela is a passionate advocate of Polish music and culture. She has given several recitals for the Polish Heritage Association of Maryland, and gave the Baltimore premiere of Karol Szymanowski’s Piesni Ksieznicki z Basni. Her repertoire includes Gorecki’s Symphony No.3, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, and songs of Chopin, Gorecki, Moniuszko, among others. She is working on an ongoing project to perform the complete works of Szymanowski.

Forthcoming engagements include playing Donna Elvira in Stuart Barker's new production of Don Giovanni for the Rosemary Branch Theatre, London this May and June. In October she will play Hannah Glawari, the title role in The Merry Widow, in London's Bloomsbury Theatre with Opera UK. Bel Canto Opera, Cheltenham has invited Pamela to return to play the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute in 2007.