Kirsty Hopkins

Kirsty Hopkins (soprano) read Music at Manchester University and post graduate vocal studies at Trinity College of Music where she won the Elizabeth Schumann Lieder Prize.
Stage work includes The Passion – The Sixteen and Streetwise Opera’s landmark staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion; the title role in John Barber and Hazel Gould’s The Nightingale; Thomas Tallis at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Ruth Ellis in Charlotte Bray’s Entanglement; Rumbled for Wigmore Hall Education; Purcell’s The Fairy Queen for tots (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment); Betrayal (I Fagiolini); the title role in Sally Beamish’s Hagar in the Wilderness; and Labyrinth of Love (Rambert).
Concert performances include Purcell’s The Indian Queen and Handel’s Dixit Dominus (The Sixteen); Handel’s Messiah (English Chamber Orchestra); Bach’s Lutheran Mass in G Minor (Australian Chamber Orchestra); Soprano Evangelist in Arvo Pärt’s Passio (Eric Whitacre conducting Hamburg Symphony Orchestra); the world premiere of Howard Goodall’s Every Purpose under the Heaven and the BBC’s “Inspire” Young Composers Prom (Aurora Orchestra).