“brightly eloquent soprano”
“Rowan Pierce especially dazzles”
“...gifted and always persuasive”
In demand on the opera stage and concert platform, Rowan Pierce has been a Britten Pears young artist, Samling artist, a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera.
Rowan made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 with the OAE and returned in 2019 for Handel Jephtha and 2023 for Mendelssohn Elijah, both with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Nominated for The Time Sky Arts Award for opera in 2020 her operatic roles have included Drusilla / L’incoronazione di Poppea, Theodora / Theodora, Galatea / Acis & Galatea, Iris / Semele, Dorinda / Orlando, Belinda / Dido and Aeneas, Elsie / Yeoman of the Guard, Tiny / Paul Bunyan, Papagena / The Magic Flute, Barbarina / The Marriage of Figaro, Miss Wordsworth / Albert Herring, Princess /L’enfant et les sortilèges. She performed the roles of Quivera and Orazia / The Indian Queen with Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Luxembourg, Opéra de Caen and Antwerp Opera under Emmanuelle Haïm. Rowan made her Glyndebourne Festival debut as Oberto / Alcina in 2022 and sung the same role for the Staatstheater Stuttgart in the same year. In 2022/23 she made her Covent Garden, Royal Opera House début singing Papagena and in 2024 played the role of Dede in Oliver Mears’ new production of Leonard Bernstein’s opera A Quiet Place at the Linbury Theatre, ROH.
In demand on the opera stage and concert platform, Rowan Pierce has been a Britten Pears young artist, Samling artist, a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera.
Rowan made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 with the OAE and returned in 2019 for Handel Jephtha and 2023 for Mendelssohn Elijah, both with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Nominated for The Time Sky Arts Award for opera in 2020 her operatic roles have included Drusilla / L’incoronazione di Poppea, Theodora / Theodora, Galatea / Acis & Galatea, Iris / Semele, Dorinda / Orlando, Belinda / Dido and Aeneas, Elsie / Yeoman of the Guard, Tiny / Paul Bunyan, Papagena / The Magic Flute, Barbarina / The Marriage of Figaro, Miss Wordsworth / Albert Herring, Princess /L’enfant et les sortilèges. She performed the roles of Quivera and Orazia / The Indian Queen with Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Luxembourg, Opéra de Caen and Antwerp Opera under Emmanuelle Haïm. Rowan made her Glyndebourne Festival debut as Oberto / Alcina in 2022 and sung the same role for the Staatstheater Stuttgart in the same year. In 2022/23 she made her Covent Garden, Royal Opera House début singing Papagena and in 2024 played the role of Dede in Oliver Mears’ new production of Leonard Bernstein’s opera A Quiet Place at the Linbury Theatre, ROH.
“Rowan Pierce especially dazzles”
“brightly eloquent soprano”
“...gifted and always persuasive Rowan Pierce”
