Philippa Boyle - Soprano

Soprano Philippa Boyle trained in Rome at Opera Studio Santa Cecilia, where she studied with world-renowned soprano Renata Scotto, and Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia. Prior to her studies in Italy she was a choral scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, where she read Classics.

Projects this season include the release of a highly acclaimed recording of vocal works by Elisabeth Lutyens with organist Tom Winpenny for Toccata Classics; Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall; Verdi’s Requiem with the London Mozart Players at the Royal Festival Hall, and with East Anglia Chamber Orchestra in Ely Cathedral; Respighi’s Deità Silvane with Sinfonietta Cracovia under Lee Reynolds, a programme of music by Zbigniew Preisner with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Republic of North Macedonia under Nicholas Chalmers, and Elgar’s The Apostles with the Philharmonia under Adrian Partington in Gloucester Cathedral in the closing concert of the 2023 Three Choirs Festival.

Other concert highlights include Mahler Symphony no.2 “Resurrection” at Blackheath Halls London, Rossini Stabat Mater and Verdi Requiem at Winchester Cathedral, Handel Messiah with Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Tchaikovsky selections from Eugene Onegin and Queen of Spades with conductor Damian Iorio for Milton Keynes City Orchestra, Elgar’s The Apostles with the Nottingham Bach Choir and Players, and Dvořák’s Te Deum with the Nottingham Concert Orchestra in Nottingham Albert Hall. She has performed Verdi’s Requiem with conductor Franz-Peter Huber and the L’Arpa Festante München Orchestra in Fulda, Germany, with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Leeds Town Hall under conductor David Hill, with Cambridge University Music Society at King’s College, Cambridge, as well as at Southwell Minster, Southwark Cathedral and Norwich Cathedral.

Philippa also enjoys a busy career on the opera stage.  Recent engagements include Lady Macbeth for Paisley Opera, Senta (The Flying Dutchman) for OperaupClose, Agrippina (cover) for English Touring Opera; Leonora (La forza del destino)  Jenifer (Tippett A Midsummer Marriage) and Ortlinde (die Walküre) both for Regent’s Opera and for London Opera Company.  Other engagements include Mum (Mark-Anthony Turnage (Greek), Arcola Theatre; cover Angrboda (Gavin Higgins The Monstrous Child), ROH Linbury; Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Elisabetta de Valois (Verdi Don Carlo), Jenůfa and Kát’a Kabanová, Fulham Opera; Elizabeth (Donizetti Maria Stuarda), OperaUpClose, the title role in Puccini’s Tosca, King’s Head Theatre. She has also performed for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Nevill Holt Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.