Praised by Opera for her “dramatic wit and vocal control,” British soprano Mary Bevan is internationally renowned in baroque, classical, and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras, and ensembles around the world. She is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award and UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent in Music, and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2019.

During the 2024-25 season, Bevan returns to English National Opera as Susanna in Le Nozza di Figaro, to Opera di Roma as Morgana in Alcina, and makes her debut with the Semperoper Dresden as Michal in a new Claus Guth production of Saul. Last season, she performed as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare with Opera di Roma, sang Dido in Dido and Aeneas in Denmark with Barokksolistine, and debuted with the Zurich Opera House as La Folie in Platée.

For the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, she sang Morgana in a new Richard Jones production, Alcina, Lila in David Bruce’s The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, performed the title roles of Rossi in Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and Turnage in Coraline at the Barbican, and made her main stage debut as Barbarina in Le nozza di Figaro. Elsewhere, opera highlights have included Rose Maurant in Weill’s Street Scene for Opera de Monte Carlo and Teatro Real Madrid, Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and Zerlina in Don Giovanni for the English National Opera, Bellezza in Il Trionfo del tempo e del desinganno and her role debut as Marzelline in Fidelio for the Royal Danish Opera, her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre as Dalinda in David Alden’s production of Ariodante, Eurydice in Orfeo and Eurydice at Teatro La Fenice, and her debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper as the title role in La Calisto.

Bevan’s many recent concert appearances have included her Carnegie Hall debut as Dalinda in Ariodante with the English Concert, Creation at the Barbican with the Academy of Ancient Music, Sally Beamish in The Judas Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and her return to the 2022 BBC Proms with Mass in B Minor. She has toured extensively across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the US with the Kammerorchester Basel, Australian Chamber Orchestra, and English Concert (Harry Bicket); and she has performed numerous world premieres, including Sir James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, A. Bliss’s Rout with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Roxanna Panufnik’s Faithful Journey with the CBSO. She has also performed with the Handel and Haydn Society Boston, Philharmonia Baroque, and the BBC Symphony and BBC Concert orchestras, and appears regularly in recital at Wigmore Hall, and the Leeds Lieder, Lammermuir, Osafestivalen, and Oxford Lieder festivals.

Bevan’s wide-ranging discography includes her art song album Voyages, Lieder by Schubert, Haydn, and Wolf, with pianist Joseph Middleton, and Handel’s Queens for Signum Records, with whom her latest disc, a recording of French Song entitled Visions Illuminées, was released in 2023. She has also recorded Handel’s The Triumph of Time and Truth and Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day with Ludus Baroque, Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 3, and Schubert’s Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic, and Mendelssohn’s songs for Champs Hill Records.