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| | Bourne Frances | | mezzosoprano | 
Frances studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and The Royal Academy of Music, winning many of the singing prizes. Her operatic roles include Sorceress Dido and Aeneas, under Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Puck in Weber’s Oberon, also under Gardiner and recently released on the Phillips label.
Recent engagements include Junon in Charpentier’s Acteon at Aldeburgh with Emmanuelle Haïm, Judith Weir’s The Consolations of Scholarship with Kokoro, Handel’s Oreste at the Linbury, Covent Garden, Irene Tamerlano for the 20th anniversary of the Cambridge Handel Opera Group and Cherubino at Grange Park.
In great demand on the concert platform Frances Bourne has sung with many of Europe’s leading conductors, including Harry Christophers, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Emmanuelle Haïm, Andrew Manze, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington and Trevor Pinnock. Recent oratorio performances include Messiah (Harry Christophers and The Sixteen), Tippett A Child Of Our Time (Huddersfield Choral Society), Pergolesi Stabat Mater (Hanover Band), Mozart C minor mass and Bach B minor mass (Gloucester Cathedral), and Dvorak Stabat Mater (Winchester Cathedral). She has appeared with the Northern Sinfonia, the City of London Sinfonia, and the English Chamber Orchestra and has recently released recordings of Mozart Requiem (European Chamber Orchestra), Copland In the Beginning (Gloucester Cathedral Choir), and her recording of Bach Cantata 148 with Gardiner is about to be released.
A keen recitalist, she has performed for New Kent Opera with Gary Cooper, at the Buxton Festival with Malcolm Martineau, and as artist in residence at the Presteigne Festival. Plans include Pitti Sing The Mikado and Jane in the premiere of Micha Hamel’s Snow White with Nationale Reisopera in Holland and Hermia in Opera North’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream .
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