Rachel Hynes Suggest updates
Born Newport, Gwent.
Welsh soprano.
Rachel Hynes studied music in Leeds at University College, Bretton Hall. She then trained at the RSAMD with Patricia Hay before joining the chorus of Scottish Opera in 1997, becoming a company Principal in 2000. Roles with them during that period included Giannetta (L'elisir d'amore), Fiordiligi, First Lady, and Mimï. Her Edinburgh Festival appearances include Anna in a concert performance of Maria Stuarda under Sir Charles Mackerras, as well as the Scottish Opera Edinburgh Festival Ring Cycles in which she appeared as Freia, Helmwige and Third Norn. She has sung Denise in The Knot Garden with Scottish Opera, at a concert performance in London, and in Tuscany at the Montepulciano Festival. Her Opera North debut was as Ellen Orford. In London she also created the role of Clara in PUSH! by David Bruce.
Roles in Scotland
- Arminda Don Anchise's wealthy niece
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Finta giardiniera 1996
- Atalanta Romilda's sister, also (though secretly) in love with Arsamene
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Xerxes 1997
- Lady in waiting
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Rigoletto 1997
- Masha Lisa's maid
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Queen of Spades 1998
- Dew Fairy
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Hansel and Gretel 1998
- Milliner
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Rosenkavalier 1999
- Priestess
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Aïda 1999
- Second Apparition
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Macbeth 1999
Macbeth 2000
- First Squire
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Parsifal 2000
- Freia sister of Fricka and goddess of love and spring
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Rheingold 2000
Rheingold 2003
- Giannetta a peasant girl
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Elisir d'amore 2000
- Helmwige a Valkyrie
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Valkyrie 2001
Valkyrie 2003
- Inez confidante of Leonora
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Trovatore 2001
- Fiordiligi a young lady from Ferrara, engaged to Guglielmo
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Così fan tutte 2001
- Anna Hannah Kennedy, Mary's companion
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Maria Stuarda 2002
- Euridice
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Orfeo ed Euridice 2002
Orfeo ed Euridice 2003
- First Lady in attendance on the Queen
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Zauberflöte 2003
Zauberflöte 2004
- Third Norn
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Götterdämmerung 2003
- Mimì a seamstress
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Bohème 2004
- Denise Thea's sister, a freedom fighter
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Knot Garden 2005
- Fourth Maid
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Elektra 2006
- Second Lady in attendance on the Queen
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Zauberflöte 2012