Gweneth-Ann Jeffers SOPRANO

Gweneth-Ann Jeffers trained at the University of Exeter, Goldsmith's College and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. She was a Vilar Young Artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in 2001 represented England at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.

Operatic engagements include Aida for Theater Bremen and Oper Kiel; Senta Der fliegende Holländer at London's Barbican Hall with London Lyric Opera; Leonora La forza del destino for Oper Köln; Leonora Il trovatore for Welsh National Opera; Amelia in Un ballo in maschera & Margherita/Helena in Boito's Mefistofele for Theater Erfurt; Tosca at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos; Gutrune Götterdämmerung at the BBC Proms under Donald Runnicles and La Gioconda for Opera Holland Park.

On the concert platform Gweneth-Ann won critical acclaim for her interpretations of Messiaen's song cycles Harawi and Poèmes pour Mi. 

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2011
Title role, La Wally
Opera Holland Park

2012
Clotilde & Norma (cover), Norma
Opera North

Leonora, La forza del destino
Chelsea Opera Group

Title role, Aida
Macedonian National Opera

Tigrana, Edgar
New Sussex Opera

Title role, Aida
Opera Poznan

2013
Santuzza, Cavalleria Rusticana
Opera Holland Park

"In La forza del destino, Jeffers is a force of nature, expressing levels of Leonora's personality hinted at in the score… Jeffers smoulders, caressing the low tessitura, soaring to crescendi and extended high passages. Forceful voice, well applied technique. Jeffers is a born diva, but her powers come from within, fuelled by intelligence and understanding of how music shapes role… Dramatic sopranos like Gweneth-Ann Jeffers are rare - why don't we hear her more often in this country?"
Anne Ozorio, Opera Today - Leonora La forza del destino, Chelsea Opera Group

"Gweneth-Ann Jeffers captures the complex, vulnerable character of Wally and her powerful voice with its tone of burnished gold suits the Italianate score."
Claire Colvin, Sunday Express - La Wally, Opera Holland Park

"In a remarkable portrayal of near- psychotic obsession, Gweneth-Ann Jeffers's gleaming soprano leapt all her vocal hurdles, ballad included, with lacerating force and deep emotional insight."
The Times - Senta Der fliegende Holländer, London Lyric Opera

"An extremely touching intensification of Aida from anxious disquiet through immense emotional fluctuations to inner peace portrayed by Gweneth-Ann Jeffers with a shimmering, always clear and illuminating soprano."
KN-Online - Aida, Oper Kiel