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Michelle Walton Soprano
Michelle studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio winning the prestigious Maggie Teyte Prize in 1995.

As a mezzo she worked for Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne, Buxton Festival, Garsington, Holland Park, ETO, Raymond Gubbay, Lille and Opera Comique Paris in roles such as Cherubino, Dorabella, Annio, Rosina, Carmen, Lucretia and Hermia.

More recently she sang such “zwischenfach” roles as Giulietta in Verdi’s Un Giorno di Regno (Buxton Festival), Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Garsington), Ramiro in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera (Garsington) and Ascanius in Berlioz’s Les Troyens (Edinburgh International Festival).

Last year she made her critically acclaimed soprano debut as Fiorilla in Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia for the Buxton Festival. She is now concentrating on the lyric soprano repertoire recently covering the title role in Arabella for Garsington, for whom she will also sing the role of Panotchka in Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night in 2006.Future plans also include Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme.

In concert she has performed with the Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square, the Sorbonne Paris, the Britten Sinfonia, the Hallé Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Tibor Varga Sion Festival Switzerland, the Manchester Camerata, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera.

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