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Georgina Rosanna Murray is a soprano from Manchester. She was a student at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior School before moving to London where she studied the Double Bass and Voice at the Royal Academy of Music. She completed a postgraduate course as a mezzo soprano at Trinity College of Music in 2009, where she was awarded the Muncey Scholarship and where she was a finalist in the English Song and Lieder Competitions. In 2012 she was the runner up in the Llais Llwyfan Llambed Award. Georgina is currently a student of Jane Irwin and has since moved up to the soprano repertoire.

Roles in opera include Idomeneo (Idamante), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro) Leocasta (Handel’s Giustino), Shepherd Boy in (Puccini’s Tosca), Mother Goose (Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress), Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Princess Clarissa (Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges), Hansel (Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel), Gianetta (Donezetti’s L’elisir d’amore), Rosina (Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Countess Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro) and Norina (Donizetti’s Don Pasquale).

She has worked with many opera companies including British Youth Opera, Grange Park Opera, Pavilion Opera and is a regularly invited to perform at the Clapham Opera Festival. She has regularly sung on cruise ships travelling all over the world most notably on Swan Hellenic’s MV Minerva. Georgina recently sung the role of Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute with Preston Opera. She is one of the founding members of Outreach Opera and is a leading singing teacher and workshop leader with Bolton Music Service.

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Preston born soprano, Helen Latham graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire with a Post Graduate distinction in performance, under the tutelage of Anne Dawson and then continued her studies with Jane Irwin.

Upcoming Roles include Adele in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus for Bolton Choral Union, Vivaldi’s Gloria/Bach Magnificat for Darlington Choral Society, and the Bach Cantatas Project for ADM Productions.

Roles have included; Fox Cub (Cunning Little Vixen) Birmingham Conservatoire opera, Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) and Micaela (Carmen) for North Star Opera, Miss Jessel (Turn of the Screw), Anne Truelove (The Rake’s Progress) and Mimi (La Boheme) for the Birmingham Conservatoire Opera Scenes. Helen also sang the the role of Micaela in Opera74’s production of Carmen, and the role of Gretel in Outreach Opera’s debut production of Hansel and Gretel.

Other performances have included Zerlina (Don Giovanni) for Opera Seria, for which the company won an Buxton Fringe Festival award and First Boy in Preston Opera’s production of The Magic Flute. Helen also performed as part of The Octagon Theatre’s Reveal Festival in Bolton, bringing pop-up opera events to the town centre.

Helen’s community based work began with Welsh National Opera Max, where she sang the role of Nurse Notes at Wrexam Maelor Hospital, for their ‘Singing Doctor’s project, and had the pleasure of working with expectant mothers, helping them to write lullabies for their unborn children for the Blooming Voices project.

Helen continues her community based work, as choral director of Hoghton In Harmony and as a founding member of Outreach Opera.