Rebecca Evans was born in South Wales and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, she has sung Mimi La bohème, Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Despina Così fan tutte and Johanna Sweeney Todd and at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, her roles have included Ginevra Ariodante, Ilia Idomeneo, Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, Sophie Der Rosenkavalier and Zdenka Arabella. Elsewhere she has sung Despina at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin; Ilia for the Netherlands Opera and for the Opera de Lausanne; the title role of The Cunning Little Vixen for Scottish Opera and Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Romilda Xerxes, Ginevra and Governess The Turn of the Screw for the English National Opera. A favourite at the Welsh National Opera, her roles there have included Mimi, Countess Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina, Ilia, Marzelline Fidelio, Norina Don Pasquale and Gretel Hänsel und Gretel.
She has also established a major operatic career in America where she has sung Susanna and Zerlina for the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Susanna for the Santa Fe Opera; Pamina and Adèle Die Fledermaus for the Lyric Opera of Chicago; and Zerlina, Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress and Adina L’Elisir d’Amore for San Francisco Opera.
Her forthcoming engagements include Liu Turandot at the Welsh National Opera, Countess Almaviva at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Donna Elvira at English National Opera.
In concert she has appeared at the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals and she is a regular guest at the BBC Proms. Her engagements include the San Francisco Symphony with Tilson Thomas, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Tate, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Mackerras, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra with Gardiner, the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra with Otaka and the Accademia Santa Cecilia with Pappano.
In recital, she has sung at the Wigmore Hall, London; and the Barcelona, Ravinia, Buxton, Belfast and Beaulieu-sur-Mer Festivals.
A Grammy Award winning artist, she has recorded prolifically including Marzelline, Pamina and Gretel with Sir Charles Mackerras, Ilia with David Parry and Laila with Brad Cohen (Chandos); Nanetta with Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Philips); a series of Gilbert and Sullivan recordings with Sir Charles Mackerras and a solo recording of Italian songs (EMI). On television she has appeared on the BBC in ‘Maestro’, as Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) and as host of her own series ‘A Touch of Classics’.