Helen Bailey, lyric soprano, was born in Middlesbrough and is a versatile performer, equally comfortable on the operatic stage, concert platform, and choral circuit.
Helen Bailey was born in Middlesbrough and graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a First Class degree in English Literature and Cultural History before training on the postgraduate Vocal Studies course at Trinity Laban. She then graduated from The Royal Academy of Music with an Advanced Diploma in Opera, a Masters in Vocal Studies, and the LRAM in vocal teaching.
Helen is a versatile performer, equally comfortable on the operatic stage, concert platform, and choral circuit.
She performs regularly for a wide range of choral societies including Botley, Compton and Shawford, Dover, Bromley, Ember, Folkestone, and Sutton Valence, plus the Thanet Festival Choir, The Seventy Singers, Sevenoaks Philharmonic Choir, Wrotham Music Festival, and Maidstone Wind Symphony. Helen is in demand as a gala soloist with recent highlights including concerts with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, St Cecilia Wind Symphony, and the Sussex Concert Orchestra. Helen is a proud supporter of the Voices for Hospices choir with whom she will appear in 2026 singing soprano solo in Sir Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man.
Whilst at RAM, Helen won the Leverhulme Trust award, a D’Oyly Carte Scholarship, the Ernest Butcher prize, The Richard Stapley award, The Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust award, and a Coutts bursary. She was a finalist of the AESS competition and later received a generous Young Artist’s bursary from Buxton International Festival Opera. In 2023, Helen was a finalist in the Robert Presley Everybody Can! Professional Development awards.
Whilst studying, Helen sang a wide range of roles including Anne Truelove (The Rake’s Progress), Aunt Norris (Mansfield Park), Rosina (La Vera Costanza), Countess (Le Nozze Di Figaro), and the title role in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah. More recently, Helen has enjoyed performing full lyric and spinto roles including Lisa (The Queen of Spades: MSO), Santuzza (Cavelleria Rusticana: Kentish Opera), Madga (La Rondine: MSO), Dama (Macbeth: Buxton International Festival Opera), and the title role of Jenůfa with Midsummer Opera. Helen has also sung the roles of Erste adelige Waise/cover Sophie (Der Rosenkavelier, Saffron Opera Group), Adina (The Elixir of Love, Red Earth Opera), Elizabeth I (Mary Queen of Scots: Opera Up Close), Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito: Red Earth Opera, HGO), and Micaëla in Carmen for Opera Brava, Meantime Opera, and Opera South East. She has enjoyed recent success in lighter repertoire singing Yum-Yum in Phoenix Opera’s ‘Come and sing the Mikado’ and performing the title role in Viardot’s Cinderella with Carshalton Opera. Helen also created roles in two of Edward Lambert’s operas, Apollo’s Mission and The Art of Venus, for the Tête-à-tête contemporary opera festival.
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Helen Bailey, lyric soprano, was born in Middlesbrough and is a versatile performer, equally comfortable on the operatic stage, concert platform, and choral circuit.
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