https://www.kirstyhopkins.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/697ea096-7448-4bf5-a755-b36ccb580424/NBG_4274.jpg Home - Now & to come - Kirsty is currently producing a staged version of Handel Messiah for Wild Arts in collaboration with director Tom Morris, and is Associate Producer for Iolanthe for Charles Court Opera this February at Wilton’s Music Hall. - She will be soloist with Cappella Fede for some completely unknown Italian baroque cantatas by Pietro Pizzolo, Francesco Mancini & many more being worked on for a performance this March in Cardiff. Incredibly beautiful music not heard for hundreds of years! - She will perform in a specially written versions of Purcell Fairy Queen for kids with OAE Education and OAE Tots around the UK in 2026/27. - Performances with The Sixteen and other ensembles all over the UK, Stockholm, Rome, Germany and The Netherlands this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/219a0176-842c-4ade-a661-d563b6ca7471/June+13%2C+2012_Musical+Rumpus_011+%281%29.jpg Home - “Gibbons’s silver swan can rarely have had her ‘silent throat’ unlocked more sweetly than by Kirsty Hopkins’s top notes.” Richard Morrison, The Times "Kirsty Hopkins, most true in timbre, is very touching in the setting of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Song of Mary Magdalene’, her gorgeous voice endearingly caressing Goodall’s lovely new setting of ‘When I survey the wondrous Cross’" Gramophone Magazine “Hopkins’ “O let me weep”, in particular, was carefully ornamented and touching” Bachtrack “Kirsty Hopkins’ lovely rendition of The Plaint” The Times https://www.kirstyhopkins.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/5cc4ea1a-b0de-4390-9dd0-728945d66196/mf+rage.jpg Soprano - Kirsty Hopkins read Music at Manchester University and then continued her post-graduate vocal training at Trinity College of Music in London (now Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance) where she won the Elizabeth Schumann Lieder Prize. She now enjoys a versatile career performing all over the world with some of today’s most exciting and renowned conductors and ensembles. Passionate about staged work, Kirsty’s recent performances include First Witch Purcell Dido & Aeneas for Grange Festival; The Fairy Queen: Three Wishes at Queen Elizabeth Hall for OAE Education; Rumbled by John Barber and Hazel Gould at Wigmore Hall; immersive show The Apple Tree for OAE Tots throughout the UK; soprano soloist in The Sixteen and Streetwise Opera's The Passion - a fully staged shortened version of Bach's St Matthew Passion receiving rave reviews and broadcast on BBC4; playing Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, in Charlotte Bray's new opera Entanglement; Betrayal, I Fagiolini's murderous fusion of renaissance music and contemporary dance; Thomas Tallis at The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe (as part of a soloist consort from The Sixteen); the title role in Sally Beamish’s new chamber opera Hagar in the Wilderness which premiered at Presteigne Festival; onstage singer for Rambert in their new ballet Labyrinth of Love with music by Michael Daugherty; Asphodéle in Chabrier L’Etoile for Sir John Eliot Gardiner at Opéra Comique in Paris and the title role in a semi-staged production of Purcell Bonduca for OAE at King's Place, London. Recent concert performances include the European premiere at St John's Smith Square of Howard Goodall's Invictus - A Passion; Handel-Mendelssohn: Israel in Ägypten for The King's Consort; Purcell Indian Queen and Handel Dixit Dominus for Harry Christophers at the Edinburgh Festival and Sydney Opera House; Soprano Evangelist in Arvo Pärt's Passio for Eric Whitacre https://www.kirstyhopkins.com/gallery daily 0.75 2021-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/8cb78807-6220-46f7-9bd0-b226c6bea6b2/NBG_4274.jpg Gallery © Lumosia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/8165e842-e33e-490f-aa86-326d73f943d2/rumbled+1.jpg Gallery Rumbled, Wigmore Learning, Photo Benjamin Ealovega https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/4b3117be-fc23-4888-968b-a14ad5d78dd5/NBG_1154.jpg Gallery The Roxy Dots © Lumosia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/b793b1e6-ebf1-4b81-a85f-80e375190d45/NBG_4263.jpg Gallery © Lumosia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/95126452-5091-4179-bb92-309f9ab49959/mf+rage.jpg Gallery Magic Flute and the Bird that would be free, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, photo credit Zen Grisdale https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/abd02120-d264-4ba9-a771-252b63b1d3b6/NBG_1263copy.jpg Gallery The Roxy Dots © Lumosia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/5d920455-c1e4-444f-b760-5289e457aa95/June+13%2C+2012_Musical+Rumpus_011+%281%29.jpg Gallery Purcell Fairy Queen Musical Rumpus, Photo courtesy of James Berry and Spitalfields Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/6d22937b-945c-49ea-a6a5-b4155b32d440/NBG_4077.jpg Gallery © Lumosia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff59eeca0367f287d84a931/10317388-783e-44df-a50a-56c1e98ed638/rambert+fan.png Gallery Rambert, Labyrinth of Love, Photo: zxDaveM courtesy of DanceTabs. 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