Biography
Judith Le Breuilly is a Mezzo Soprano from Birmingham. She is currently based in Ghent, Belgium as a young artist at the International Opera Academy. She was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio for their 2020/21 cohort and an Associate Artist the following year. Prior to this she studied at the Royal College of Music as an RCM scholar with Dinah Harris, Carolyn Dowdle, and Simon Lepper where she gained a Master of Performance with Distinction. Her Undergraduate studies were at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Margaret Izatt, and Julia Lynch, graduating with a first class Degree and winning both the Jean Highgate Scholarship for singers and the Govenors’ Recital Prize for Singing.
In competition, she has won the 2024 New Voices competition at the Aldborough Festival, and 6th Prize at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition. She was also a finalist in the 2020 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and a Garsington Alvarez Young Artist for the 2022 season.
Recent engagements include roles in the Wexford Opera festival, where a review in Opera Today described her as a “wonderfully modulated mezzo”. Other operatic roles include touring the country with English Touring Opera in their Learning and Participation department, in Tarantara productions in ‘A Gala Celebration of Gilbert and Sullivan’, Kitchen boy (cover) in Rusalka for Garsington Opera, and Mary (cover) for Welsh National Opera in Al Wasl written for the 2020 Dubai expo.
She has also performed as Zweite Dame - Die Zauberflöte (Hurn Court Opera), Lia - L’Enfant Prodigue, Ernesto - Il Mondo Della Luna, The Grand Duchess (Cover) A Dinner Engagement (RCMIOS), various roles in Scoring a Century, Mother Goose (Cover) A Rake’s Progress (British Youth Opera). Judith has also sung the roles of Donna Elvira - Don Giovanni, Dorabella - Così fan tutte, Rosina - Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Hänsel - Hänsel und Gretel, Hermia - A Midsummer night’s dream, and Dinah - Trouble in Tahiti in scenes.
Judith also has experience as a concert and oratorio soloist. Her recent work includes; Verdi’s Requiem with Hutton and Shenfield Choral Society, Mahler’s Second Symphony with Leamington Sinfonia, and Handel’s Lucrezia with Volante Strings. Other performances have been with Scunthorpe and District Choral Society, Redditch Choral Society, Stowemarket Chorale, Buckingham Choral Society, The Waverley Singers, Reigate and Redhill Choral Society, and she is a regular soloist with The Midland Concert Orchestra.
Future engagements include; Haydn’s Nelson’s Mass and Purcell Te Deum Jubilate with the Stour Singers, Octavian - Der Rosenkavalier with the Lewes Chamber Music Festival, another season at Wexford Festival Opera, and Handel’s Messiah at Worcester Cathedral with the Worcester Festival Choral Society as well as in Bournemouth with the Bournemouth Bach Choir.
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