Helen Field
Helen Field was born in North Wales and studied at the Royal
Northern College of Music, Manchester and the Royal College of
Music, London.
She began her career as a recitalist on the BBC Young Recitalist
series and soon became a principal artist at Welsh National Opera.
Helen has since worked with a huge number of opera houses including
Opera North, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne
Opera, Garsington Opera and Opera Ireland.
Helen has enjoyed great national and international success,
singing at major venues all over the UK, Europe and America.
Working with some of the world's most prestigious directors, she is
committed to the role of the "singing actress" in opera, and sings
repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary. She has performed
the title role in many world premieres.
Helen has won many awards including the Dame Eva Turner Prize
for Opera, the Royal Society of Arts Scholarship and the Young
Welsh Singers Competition. The Lawrence Olivier Awards nominated
her as ‘the most outstanding newcomer to opera’ and named
her performance as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust as
‘outstanding operatic achievement of the year’. She was
recently nominated for the Dora Moore Award, for her performance as
Salome in Toronto.
Helen is a Fellow of North East Wales Institute of Higher
Education, based in her home town of Wrexham.
For more information see www.helenfield.com