Her recent successes on the opera stage include Ellen Orford Peter Grimes (Sydney); Blanche Dialogues des Carmélites (Bayerische Staatsoper); Countess Madeleine Capriccio (Grange Park); Micäela Carmen and Liù Turandot (Covent Garden); Governess The Turn of the Screw (Aldeburgh); Fiordiligi Così fan tutte (Bayerische Staatsoper & New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival); Donna Anna Don Giovanni (Bolshoi & Opéra de Montreal); Elettra Idomeneo (Netherlands Opera) and Konstanze Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Deutsche Staatsoper & Bayerische Staatsoper). Title roles include Theodora (Glyndebourne); Rodelinda (Bayerische Staatsoper); The Bartered Bride (Covent Garden) and The Cunning Little Vixen (ENO). She has also sung in innovative staged performances of Sibelius’ Luonnotar in London; Honegger’s Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher in Rome and Handel’s Messiah in Vienna.

Her future engagements include a return to the Bolshoi as Donna Anna; Tatyana Eugene Onegin (Grange Park) and Ellen Orford (La Scala & Tokyo).

Her work on the concert platform spans many periods and styles and includes Ravel’s Shéhérazade (RLPO/Mackerras); Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle); Berg’s Bruchstücke aus Wozzeck (Swedish Radio Orchestra/Harding) and Honegger’s Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano). Recent highlights include Messiah (ROH Orchestra/Pappano); The Kingdom (LSO/Elder); Shostakovich’s Blok Romances (Nash Ensemble); Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia at the Aldeburgh Festival (Knussen); Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri at the Edinburgh Festival (SCO/Norrington) and Britten’s Les Illuminations – including the world premiere of Britten’s three additional Rimbaud settings (BBCSSO/Brabbins). Engagements this season and beyond include Britten’s War Requiem (Brussels Philharmonic/Marriner) and A Spring Symphony (CBSO/Gardner); Ein Deutsches Requiem (Philharmonia/von Dohnànyi); Tatyana in concert performances of Eugene Onegin (Bamberger Symphoniker/Ticciati) and Das Paradies und die Peri (Vienna Philharmonic/Rattle).

Her recital appearances include the Wigmore Hall with Graham Johnson and the Lincoln Centre in New York with Eugene Asti. Her extensive discography also includes Ein Deutsches Requiem; Britten’s The Poet’s Echo, Les Illuminations, and Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente; Handel’s Saul, Solomon, Theodora (title role) and Messiah; Mozart’s Requiem and the roles of Mařenka (nominated for a Grammy Award); Elena Paride ed Elena; Hero Béatrice et Bénédict; Nannetta Falstaff; Tiny Paul Bunyan, Miss Wordsworth Albert Herring and Blanche Dialogues des Carmélites.

She lives in Surrey with her husband and two children.