Bethany Horak-Hallett Mezzo-soprano

Horak-Hallett studied music at Leeds University and Trinity Laban Conservatoire. She is a laureate of the Rising Star of the Enlightenment and Samling Artists programs. She was a finalist in the Cesti competition at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival in 2020 and won second prize in the Handel International Vocal Competition in 2021.

Opera credits include Dorabella (Così fan tutte) at Garsington Opera, the Kitchen Boy (Rusalka) for the Glyndebourne Festival and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, and Žena (Kátia Kabanová) at Glyndebourne. Concert appearances include Bach cantatas and the role of Galatea (Aci, Galatea e Polifemo) with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She has sung the St John Passion with Mark Padmore and the Nelson Mass with John Butt.

She joined the Royal Northern Sinfonia as soloist in Bach's Cantata 199 and made her BBC Proms debut with the Monteverdi Choir in Handel's Dixit Dominus. She has toured with Holland Baroque, sung Bach and Handel with the Academy of Ancient Music, Handel and Mozart arias with Southbank Sinfonia Baroque and appeared with the English Chamber Orchestra and The Instruments of Time and Truth. She has given recitals at the London Handel Festival and for Garsington Opera.

Her audio and video recordings include Cupidon (Sémélé) with the Academy of Ancient Music, Bach and Telemann for OAEPlayer and Handel's Messiah for the Voces8 Foundation's Live from London Festival. Recent and future engagements include Lady Psyche (Princess Ida) with OAE and John Wilson, Iolanta, Will Todd's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for If Opera, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Huddersfield Choral Society, Bach's Mass in B minor and Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with the Monteverdi Choir and Messiah with the Dunedin Consort.

Debut at the Opéra national de Paris