Rebecca Evans is regarded by some as one of the world's top five sopranos, having performed regularly with the Welsh National Opera and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and established a major operatic career in America with the Chicago and San Francisco Operas and the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Her extensive concert experience includes appearances at the BBC Proms and at the Edinburgh International Festival; Gala Concerts with Andrea Bocelli and with Luciano Pavarotti; and a Gala Concert to celebrate the opening of the Welsh Assembly in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and HRH the Prince of Wales. She frequently joins Bryn Terfel in concert and has also hosted her own BBC television series 'A Touch of Classics' with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Rebecca is a natural stage animal with real star presence.
The music critic Dominic McHugh called her 'the down-to-earth diva', adding that "a more thoroughly normal, unaffected opera singer could not be imagined". Before becoming a professional singer, Rebecca trained to be a nurse. She says, "Then I met Bryn Terfel at a concert - he was one soloist, I was the other. He asked me what I was doing, and I told him I'd just got a junior assistant's post in an operating theatre. 'You fool!' he said. 'You need to go to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and you need to go NOW!" (which, of course, she did!)
Hugh Canning recently wrote in 'The Sunday Times' that "as well as being a wonderful singer, Evans is a very nice lady, entirely unspoilt by success in a business that turns out demanding divas and monstrous egos". Rebecca is a firm favourite with Welsh male voice choirs and has frequently appeared in concert with the likes of Morriston Orpheus and Pendyrus where combined numbers featuring Rebecca and the choir are highlights!