BIOGRAPHY
Rowan Hellier is a forward-looking artist of vocal and character-inhabiting versatility.
Her work has two strands: large operatic roles which utilise her long vocal range, depth of acting skill and breadth of vocal colour, such as Didon, Kundry and Brangäne.
And conceptual work—as concept-designer, director and performer—which blurs the boundaries of genre, discipline and aesthetic, often centring women’s stories, and reflecting the world we currently live in.
The Guardian wrote of her recent wom3n recital-programme, performed at Wigmore Hall: “Bring it on!”
Didon, Les Troyens
Baba Yaga, conceptual song + dance recital
CALENDAR
OPERA
La Traviata
Staatstheater Braunschweig Burgplatz Open Air 2025
16 performances August 23 - September 10 2025
CONCEPTUAL
Baba Yaga: Songs and Dances of Death
Co-production Beethovenfest Bonn + Oxford International Song Festival
Premiere 22 October 2025
COLLABORATORS
OPERA
Berlin Staatsoper / Welsh National Opera / Staatsoper Hamburg / Opéra de Genève / MÜPA / Royal Opera House - Linbury Theatre
ORCHESTRAS + ENSEMBLES
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Seattle Symphony / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Stavanger Symphony Orchestra / Dunedin Consort / Ensemble Resonanz / Real Orquestra Sinfónica de Sevilla / Kuss Quartet / The King’s Consort / The Prince Consort / La Serenissima / Trevor Pinnock and Friends / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
CONDUCTORS
Vladimir Jurowski / Mirga Gražinytė Tyla / Alexander Verdernikov / Nick Collon / Itzhak Perlman / Peter Eötvös / Christian Curnyn / Srba Dinić / John Butt / Trevor Pinnock / Matthew Aucoin / Leo Hussain
PROMOTERS + FESTIVALS
Wigmore Hall / Bregenz Festival / St. Magnus International Festival / Royal Festival Hall / Elbphilharmonie Hamburg / Château de Versailles / resonanzraum St. Pauli / Volksbühne Berlin / Shanghai Concert Hall / LSO St. Luke’s / Bachfest Leipzig / Opéra de Lille / Perth Festival of the Arts / Oxford International Song Festival
POETS / COMPOSERS / CHOREOGRAPHERS
Hollie McNish / Elena Langer / Kate Whitley / Andreas Heise / Alasdair Nicolson
DISCOGRAPHY
Gramophone Award-winning Mozart Requiem with Dunedin Consort—Linn Records / Philip Glass The Trial—Orange Mountain Records / Honneger König David with Prometheus Ensemble + Junges Ensemble Berlin—Rondeau Productions / Wolf Lieder with Roderick Williams and Katarina Karnéus, Oxford International Song Festival—Stone Records
SONG
Silent Noon—Vaughan Williams with pianist Jonathan Ware
Songs My Mother Taught Me—Dvořák with pianist Sholto Kynoch
Nanna’s Lied—Kurt Weill with pianist Jonathan Ware