Lara Rebekah Harvey

ABOUT

Lara Rebekah Harvey was born in London and completed her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music where she held the Annie Ridyard Scholarship for Mezzo Sopranos.

Lara’s operatic roles include Cover Alcina La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (Longborough Festival Opera), Madrigalist Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park), Olga Eugene Onegin (Opera Loki), Maurya Riders to the Sea (Wexford Festival Opera) and Dritte Dame Die Zauberflöte, Sprite Cendrillon, and Lolo The Merry Widow (all for RNCM Opera).

Lara recently sang at Glyndebourne Festival Opera where operas performed included Mozart's Don Giovanni, Handel's Semele, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Lehar's The Merry Widow, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Bizet's Carmen, and Verdi's La Traviata.

Opera choruses include Semele (Opéra de Lille), La Rondine (If Opera), Carmen (Longborough Festival Opera), Un Ballo in Maschera, Manon Lescaut and Isabeau (all for Opera Holland Park), Candide (The Grange Festival), Vanessa and Herculanum (Wexford Festival Opera), Orfeo ed Euridice, L'Ivrogne Corrige, and Paradise Moscow (all for RNCM Opera). Roles in RNCM Opera Scenes include Stewardess Flight, Secretary The Consul, Lady Essex Gloriana, Serving Woman King Priam and Florence Pike Albert Herring.

As an oratorio soloist, performances include Bach’s Magnificat, St John Passion and Christmas Oratorio, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Maria Theresa Mass, Mozart’s Requiem and Solemn Vespers, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Rutter’s Feel the Spirit, Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man, Manchester Carols by Sasha Johnson Manning and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasie with the Vienna Tonkünstler-Orchester.

Lara has appeared as soloist at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Marines Massed Bands. She was also a finalist in the Emmy Destinn Czech Singing Competition, the Frederic Cox Award, and The Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss.

Lara also enjoys her outreach work. As well as teaching singing, Lara is a soloist for Lost Chord, a charity that brings professional musicians into care homes, giving interactive concerts to people suffering with dementia.

Lara has been generously supported by the Mario Lanza Educational Foundation, the Philip Bates Trust, The Kathleen Trust and the Shoresh Charitable Trust.

In summer 2025, Lara will be performing the role of Witch in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at Longborough Festival Opera.