Helena Dix
Australian Soprano Helena Dix completed her Post-graduate Opera Program at the Royal Academy of Music on the ABRSM scholarship in 2005, where she studied with Elizabeth Ritchie and was supported by the Josephine Baker and Countess of Munster Trusts.
In a single year she won several prestigious opera competitions and was a finalist in the McDonalds Aria held at the Sydney Opera House and won the Nino Sanciolo scholarship to further her studies in Italy. Helena has also been successful in many competitions in London and sang in the finals of the ‘Songmakers Almanac’, the Opera Rara Bel Canto prize, Blyth Buesst Opera Prize, Clonter Opera prize and the Richard Lewis competition. Helena was also very proud to be the Australian representative in The BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2005.
Helena’s operatic repertoire includes Cis Albert Herring, Blonde Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Carmen and La Bohème, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro and Felice School for Fathers by Wolf-Ferrari. She also worked with Opera Australia in La Bohème and Der Rosenkavalier under Simone Young and Paul Kildea. Other roles in Opera Tableaux have included Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte, Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, title role Thais, Madama Butterfly, Mercedes Carmen, Elvira Ernani and Violetta La Traviata in Academy Opera Tableaux. Helena sang Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte conducted by Sir Colin Davis and directed by John Copley and Noémie in Massenet’s Cendrillon. In the summer of 2005 Helena sang with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera chorus, where she also appeared as Li-Li in Jonathan Dove’s Greed for their young artist project Dovetales. For Scottish Opera Helena has covered Frasquita Carmen and performed Rosalinde Die Fledermaus for Scottish Opera Go Round. Helena also covered the title role Ariadne auf Naxos for Garsington Opera.
In Australia Helena sang the role of the Angel in Handel’s cantata La Resurrezione and made her debut with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic in Handel’s Messiah, receiving critical praise for her performance, and returning as soloist in several performances of Messiah, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor and Carmina Burana. In London concert engagements have included Messiah, Le Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini, Mozart Coronation Mass in C, Elijah, Oratorio de Noel by Rheinberger, Christmas Oratorio by Saint-Saens and Brahms Requiem and Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Cambridge String Players. Further concert engagements include her debut at both St. James Piccadilly singing Mozart's Mass in C minor and at The Royal Albert Hall in Carmina Burana with Concerts from Scratch, conducted by Brian Kay, Haydn’s Creation at St John’s Smith Square, Mozart Requiem in Knightsbridge, Verdi Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall, Elijah at Dorchester Abbey and Beethoven 9th Symphony for the RPO.
Engagements this season include Carmina Burana in Beckenham and Keele, Verdi Requiem at Guildford Cathedral, covering Karolina in the new production of Smetana’s The Two Widows for Scottish Opera and sing/cover Hanna Glawari The Merry Widow for Scottish Opera Go Round. Subsequent engagements include Beethoven 9th Symphony at the Barbican Hall, London, Carmina Burana at Symphony Hall, Birmingham and Brahms Requiem at Birmingham Town Hall.
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