Biography - Flora McIntosh

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Flora is a singer, facilitator and storyteller, attracting wide attention and praise for her 'wonderfully rich' mezzo-soprano, ‘thrilling’ stage presence and ‘vivid’ characterisation.

Notable and critically acclaimed performing credits include Waltraute Die Walküre, Wellgunde Das Rheingold, Dryade Ariadne auf Naxos Longborough Festival Opera, title roles in Carmen and Mary Stuart OperaUpClose, Das Lied von der Erde (English National Ballet, Pauline Polyeucte (UK premiere), Romeo I Capuleti e i Montecchi Grimeborn/BBC. Flora has performed regularly on the concert platform throughout the UK, most recently to sell-out audiences in cathedrals with London Concertante, and sang Dido for English National Ballet’s film Laid in Earth as part of their Ballet on Demand series.

Flora was delighted to be appointed as Artistic Director of the national touring company OperaUpClose in 2022. As part of a bold programme of reinvented classics, Flora will direct a new version of Vaughan Williams’ masterful miniature Riders to the Sea in January 2025.