Saturday 12th April 2025
Mozart's Coronation Mass
Ellesmere Port Music Society
Details TBC
Saturday 5th April 2025
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
Wigan Choral Society
St Michael’s Church, Swinley
at: 7:30pm
Saturday 15th March 2025
Mendelssohn's Elijah
Bury Choral Society
The Parish of St Thomas and St John
New Church St, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 2UD
at: 7pm
Friday 20th Dec 2024
Handel’s Messiah
Harrogate Voices & Harrogate Handel Players
St Peter’s Church, Harrogate
at 7.15pm
Saturday 9th Nov 2024
Rossini's Petite Messe Solonnelle
The Tatton Singers
Knutsford
SATURDAY 16th November 2024,
at 7.30pm
Saturday 2nd Nov 2024
Elgar's Sea Pictures
and other works by Elgar
Sale Choral Society
Conductor: Russell Medley
The Avenue Methodist Church, Sale, M33 4PL
Reviews:
"Helen Gregory gives a beautiful, captivating performance as Orfeo"
(Orfeo ed Euridice - June 2024)
“Helen Anne Gregory’s provocative and glamorous Maddalena”
(Rigoletto - April 2019)
"Helen Gregory’s mezzo so rich it was like velvet" - Rossini Stabat Mater
(Bury Choral Society 2018)
"A fiery determination characterised Helen Anne Gregory's Azucena. Hinting at hidden depths."
Opera Magazine (Feb 2016)
" Mezzo soprano Helen Anne Gregory’s rendering of the solo part was indeed beautiful and stirring..."
- Elgar Music Makers
"the splendidly powerful singing of Helen Gregory whose rich tones were perfectly suited to the role of Carmen”
- Carmen
Biography
Helen was born in Bradford but is now based in the North West. She studied music and graduated from Cardiff University with BMus (hons) in 2001. After Graduation Helen moved to Bolton and worked in Sales & Marketing before returning to full time studies in 2010 at the Royal Northern College of Music where she studied with David Maxwell Anderson and Barbara Robotham. She completed her postgraduate MMus studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2012 and she now studies with Dramatic Soprano Jane Irwin.
Prior to her studies at the RNCM Helen performed the following operatic roles: Carmen (Carmen, Mercedes), Samson & Delilah (Delilah cover) and Orpheus in the Underworld (Diana), Dido & Aeneas (2nd Witch), La Traviata (Flora), Trovatore (Azucena) and Jenufa (Grandmother Buryja). At the RNCM Helen played (Mrs Grose) in Turn of the Screw, (Bradamante) in Alcina and (La Natura) in La Callisto in staged opera excerpts, Cinderella's Stepmother (and cellist) in a singer/musician production of Sondheim's Into the Woods, the roles of; (the Baroness) in the college's full production of Barber's Vanessa and (Florence Pike) in Albert Herring and (Arsamenes) in Xerxes. Since leaving the RNCM in 2012 Helen has gone on to play (the Witch) in Hansel & Gretel for Clonter opera, a role that she went on to cover for Garsington Opera 2013. Helen returned to Garsington in 2014 making her principle debut there as (Pi Pasek) in their critically acclaimed production of A Cunning Little Vixen and she revived her role as (the Witch) in Hansel & Gretel when Garsington took their 2013 production to the West Green Opera Festival in Jul 2014. Helen received coaching on this role from Dame Ann Murray.
In the last few years Helen has sung the role of Kate Pinkerton and covered the role of Suzuki in Madame Butterfly on tour with Heritage Opera, She sang Carmen in concert for Hashtag Opera and played Azucena in il Trovatore and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni for Opera Seria, and she helped launch a new Opera Company called Outreach Opera with whom she performed the roles of Gertrude and Witch in Hansel & Gretel in their inaugural production in July 2016. In summer 2017 she returned to Heritage Opera to play the roles of 3rd Lady and 3rd Spirit in their new production of The Magic Flute. In 2018 she played Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte and in 2019 she played Maddalena in Rigoletto for Bare Boards Opera. In 2022 Helen has added the role of Hansel from Hansel & Gretel and Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana to her repertoire after performances with Appassionare Opera. In 2024 she made her debut in the Role of Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice to critical acclaim.
Helen is also much in demand as a concert soloist and has even performed as a pre-match singer at Rugby Super League Matches in front of crowds of up to 17,000 fans. Recent concert appearances include: Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder at the Bridgewater Hall. Alto Soloist in Rossini's Petite Messe Solonelle with Bradford Festival Choral Society and soloist in Elgar's Music Makers at Haslemere Hall in Surrey and for Kington Choral Society, The Angel in Elgar's Dream of Gerontius for the St George's Singers with Stockport Symphony Orchestra at Gorton Monastery, Elgar's Sea Pictures with West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra and most recently Mahler’s Rückert Lieder with Sheffield Symphony Orchestra. In her early career she also worked regularly for Opera Barcarola on Swan Hellenic cruises.