Mary Bevan

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 a MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2019.

She is also a Patron of Continuo Foundation and The London Chorus.

Mary enjoys fruitful artistic relationships with the many orchestras with whom she regularly performs, including the OAE, AAM, English Concert, La Nuova Musica, Concerto Copenhagen, Gabrieli Consort, CBSO, RPO, BBC Philharmonic, BBCSSO, amongst others. She has performed with the Royal Opera, English National Opera (with whom she was a Harewood Artist), the BBC Proms, the Royal Danish Theatre, Teatro Real Madrid, at Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Elbphilharmonie, Theater an der Wien, and performs regularly as a recitalist at the Wigmore Hall and many other concert and operatic venues around the world. In 2023, Mary makes her debuts at Bayerische Staatsoper (Calisto in Cavalli’s ‘La Calisto’), La Fenice (Eurydice in Gluck’s ‘Orfeo’), Rome (Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare) and Zurich (Thalie and La Folie in Rameau’s Platée).

During the 2025/26 season, Bevan makes her debut with the Dutch National Opera as Neola in a new Michel van der Aa commission entitled Theory of Flames, sings the role of Pat Nixon in John Adams’s Nixon in China conducted by the composer in Rome, returns to the Semperoper Dresden as Michal in Handel’s Saul, and appears in concert as Almirena in Rinaldo on tour with the English Concert (Harry Bicket) and as Galatea in Acis and Galatea with the Early Opera Company (Christian Curnyn). Other concert plans include Handel’s Messiah with the Gabrieli Consort (Paul McCreesh), Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Netherlands Bach Choir (Richard Egarr), John Adams’s Le Livre de Baudelaire with The Hallé (John Adams), Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Aurora Orchestra (Nicholas Collon) and a return to Wigmore Hall for a solo evening recital.

Bevan’s wide-ranging discography includes numerous releases on Signum Records and her most recent, Elegy, is for release in October 2025; also for the label are a recording of orchestral French song entitled Visions Illuminées, art song albums Voyages and Divine Muse with pianist Joseph Middleton, Handel’s Queens, and A Most Marvellous Party featuring the music of Noël Coward with tenor Nicky Spence. Other albums include Handel's The Triumph of Time and Truth and Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No.3 and Schubert’s Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic, Arthur Sullivan songs (Chandos), Vaughan Williams folk songs (Albion), and Brahms’s Liebesliederwaltzer (Resonus).