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"Speirs makes a big impact with her feisty acting and, when required, her seductive singing."

Seen and Heard International 

Credit: Matt Jones


Scottish Soprano Rachel Speirs enjoys a varied career as a performer and music facilitator. Recent and upcoming engagements include Titania in Purcell's The Fairy Queen (Longborough Festival Opera), Lulu in Under the little red moon for 6-24 month old babies (English Touring Opera), 'Discovering Opera' performances (English National Opera), Soprano Soloist for Mozart's Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall, Lamplighter cover in Puccini's Manon Lescaut (English Touring Opera), Musetta cover in La bohème (Hurn Court Opera). 

Rachel is an Artist Practitioner for the Royal Opera House Create & Sing Programme, leads workshops with SEND participants and people living with dementia for English Touring Opera, and is passionate and experienced in sharing and creating music in community settings. She recently completed a level 2 Makaton qualification, and is Co-Director of SoundUp Arts CIC, producing musical experiences for people affected by dementia.

Next performances:

The Fairy Queen - Purcell (Titania/Hippolyta)

29/30 July and 1/3 August 2023

Longborough Festival Opera

Under the little red moon - Yealland & Hepplewhite

October/November 2023

English Touring Opera (UK Tour)

Fauré Requiem & Songs by Reynaldo Hahn

18th November 2023

Tatton Singers - Knutsford

Bach B Minor Mass - Soprano Soloist

25th November 2023 

Cheshire Choral - Bramhall

Pamina - The Magic Flute (excerpts)

6th December 2023

Royal Opera House Create & Sing (Kirklees)

Handel's Messiah - Soprano Soloist

6th December 2023

Streetwise Opera - Manchester

Longborough Opera Christmas Concert

10th December 2023

Longborough Church

Handel's Messiah - Soprano Soloist

12th December 2023

Warwick & Kenilworth Choral Society

Lamplighter (cover)/Chorus - Manon Lescaut

Chorus - The Rake's Progress

Theresa - The Great Stink (KS2)

February - June 2024

English Touring Opera (UK Tour)

Mozart's Requiem - Soprano Soloist

12th May 2024

Royal Albert Hall

Reviews:

"... relish the glossy sensuality of Rachel Speirs' Titania and the feistiness of the soprano's Hippolyta." - Opera Today, August 2023 (The Fairy Queen, Longborough Festival Opera)

"There are a plethora of excellent performances from among the young cast, not least from Rachel Speirs who plays both Titania and Hippolyta. With her highly persuasive soprano, she sings 'Thrice happy lovers' with a sense of drunken sarcasm, which suggests her own marriage to Theseus is far from happy, and feels a far cry from the 'purity' we might expect when it comes from Juno's lips." - Music OMH, August 2023 (The Fairy Queen, Longborough Festival Opera)

"Rachel Speirs as Lotty, meanwhile, has the sweetness of a true soubrette, and in some of the Act 2 ensembles – with all four singers forming a euphonious ensemble and Speirs sparkling up on top – they make an enjoyable case for this unassuming opera as more than the sum of its (pleasant enough) parts." - Gramophone, January 2023 (The Soldier's Legacy, Retrospect Opera)

"Tenor Joseph Doody and Soprano Rachel Speirs are much younger performers than Keeble and Hayes, but are entirely convincing as the two lovers around which much of the plot will revolve." - The Light Music Society, February 2023 (The Soldier's Legacy, Retrospect Opera)

"She has lyric instincts and operatic powers in reserve, and the latter are certainly engaged by 'A sa dame malade'" - MusicWeb International, 2021 (The Fabulous Sir John CD Recording, Divine Art Records)

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