"with exquisite ease...she seems to take us up to heaven and back"
Lucie Skeaping
The Early Music Show
BBC Radio 3
Welcome to the website for British soprano Kirsty Hopkins.
After a music degree at Manchester University, Kirsty trained at Trinity College of Music where she won the Elizabeth Schumann Lieder Prize.
Roles include Asphodèle in Chabrier's L'Etoile at L'Opéra Comique in Paris for Sir John Eliot Gardiner and for François-Xavier Roth in Nimes in January 2008. Galatea in Handel's Acis & Galatea for JEMW, Cupid in Purcell's King Arthur for New Chamber Opera, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas for MUSO and Spirit in the same opera for Harry Christophers.
Recent concert performances include Bach's Magnificat, Purcell's Ode on St Cecilia’s Day, Bach's Wachet Auf, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Bach's St John Passion and the Monteverdi Vespers ("the soloists were outstanding...a sparkling performance from Julia Doyle and Kirsty Hopkins", Michael Gray).
For a full biography please click here.
Hear Kirsty on "Making Waves", a new recording of music composed and conducted by Bob Chilcott. The album, performed by The Sirens and Iain Farrington, is released on Signum Classics.
Forthcoming highlights include a performance of Monteverdi Vespers in Chelmsford Cathedral for Richard Cooke, a recital in Chichester, a US tour and concerts at the British Library, Cambridge, Oxford and St John's Smith Square with the consort soloist ensemble Alamire, a tour to Bulgaria with The QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble and tenor soloist Andrew Staples singing Venetian repertoire in March and Purcell's Bonduca with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Kings Place in May.
