Biography & CV
Biography
Demelza moved to London from her Yorkshire home to study at the Guildhall School of Music where she gained her Bachelor's Degree, from there she continued to the Royal College of Music receiving her Graduate Diploma. She then took her first steps into the world of opera before completing a Master of Arts at the Wales International Academy of voice. She studies regularly with Quentin Hayes and occasionally, Nelly Miricioiu.
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Roles include Tosca for Opera Brava and OperaUpClose, Madame Butterfly for the Lambeth Orchestra, Park Opera and New Cornwall Opera, Norma for Aylesbury Opera, Suor Angelica with Lunchbreak Opera, Minnie (Fanciulla del West) for OperaUpClose, Dido (Dido and Aeneas) for Park Opera, Violetta (La Traviata) Candlelight Opera, Chelmsford Opera, New Cornwall Opera and New Devon Opera (Cover), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) for Aylesbury Opera and Kennet Opera, Abigaile (Nabucco) for Kennet Opera, Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda) for Operatique and Mother (Hansel and Gretel).
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Opera EXPERIENCE
Hansel & Gretel | Mother | Lambeth Orchestra | English
Norma | Title Role | Aylesbury Opera | Italian
Suor Angelica | Title Role | Lunch break Opera | Italian
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Tosca | Title Role | Opera Brava | English
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Der Rosenkavalier (Excerpts) | Lambeth Orchestra | German
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Nabbucco | Abigaille | Kennet Opera | English
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Madame Butterfly | Title Role | Lambeth Orchestra | Italian
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Tosca | Title Role | OperaUpClose (West end run) | English
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Tosca | Title Role | OperaUpClose (Tour) | English
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Madame Butterfly | Title Role | Park Opera | English
Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | Kennet Opera | English
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Tosca | Title Role | OperaUpClose | English
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La Fanciulla del West | Minnie | OperaUpClose | English
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La Traviata | Violetta Valéry | Chelmsford Opera | English
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Madame Butterfly | Title Role | New Cornwall Opera | English
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Dido and Aneas | Dido | Park Opera | English
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La Traviata | Violetta Valéry | Candlelight Opera | Italian
La Traviata | Violetta Valéry (Cover) | New Devon Opera | English
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La Traviata | Violetta Valéry | New Cornwall Opera | English
Maria Stuarda | Elisabetta | Operatique | Italian
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Hansel and Gretel | Mother | GSMD Schools project | English
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TraininG
Teachers | Quentin Hayes | Nelly Miricioiu
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Guildhall School of Music and Drama | Bachelor of Music
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Royal College of Music | Graduate Diploma in Performance
Wales International Academy of Music | Master of Arts
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Special Skills
Well its always worth being able to multi task and having a good cartwheel in your repertoire is pretty useful too!
Many years of therapeutic music concerts and street performing have added a wealth of skills which I can use in the most formal settings and on the opera stage, connecting with audiences whilst dealing with even the most complex of situations, expected or otherwise!
Besides that, well, it often seems to raise a smile when people hear that I have a 1st Dan black-belt in Taekwondo and I have owned my own motorbike!
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