Charlotte Bowden Soprano

✨ Only just coming back down to earth after an incredible week singing at the 14th Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik Cesti Competition. ✨

It was an honour to be invited to sing with the festival orchestra and Angelo Michele Errico for the final round on Sunday and I’m so happy that the panel decided to award me Second Prize.

Congratulations to all the other finalists for a wonderful concert and to the other prize winners!

I want to say a special thanks to Eva-Maria, Marion, and all the team. We were so well looked after all week, it really felt that our comfort and needs were prioritised from the first day of check in to the post final reception!

I couldn’t recommend the Cesti Competition highly enough to other young singers and hope to have another excuse to visit this beautiful city again very soon!

Our penultimate show of Hansel and Gretel at Opera Holland Park is tomorrow!

There are still a few tickets left, grab one while you can!

Thank you to Laima at for these backstage photos of me flitting about as The Dew Fairy, and to Neil Irish for the most whimsical and glamorous costume!

From now on I’m having it written into all my contracts that I will only appear in Pom Pom headdresses and jewel encrusted tutus!

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Last week I had the huge privilege of covering Pretty Yende and standing in for the dress rehearsal of the coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Singing with Sir Antonio Pappano and the Coronation Orchestra at Westminster Abbey was such a special experience, particularly performing ‘Sacred Fire’ by Sarah Class - one of the pieces personally commissioned by the King.

Congratulations to all the musicians who performed throughout the service and celebrations, it was a masterclass in artistry and professionalism. I am so proud to have had a part to play in the preparations for such a triumphant display of musical talent and excellence!

Many thanks to Opera Holland Park for allowing me time off our rehearsals for Hänsel und Gretel and to the Royal College of Music for putting me forward to be a part of something so extraordinary!

✨ Still pinching myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming! ✨

📸 Helena Cooke Photography

✨ Public booking is now open for Opera Holland Park’s 2023 Season! ✨

I’m so happy to be returning to to play the Dew Fairy in John Wilkie’s new production of Hänsel und Gretel this summer!

I had the most wonderful time playing Susanna as part of the OHP Young Artist Programme in 2021 and can’t wait to work with this fantastic company again!

Performances 10-23 June, I’ll be singing in all of the dates except 16th June which is this year’s Young Artists cast show!

📸 Laima Arluskaité

I’m so excited to be returning to Glyndebourne in Autumn ‘23 to make my role debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni ✨

Playing Barbarina and covering Susanna as a 2022 Jerwood Young Artist was a truly life changing experience. I am so grateful to be back at to perform another Mozart role with this wonderful company!

‘An exciting young cast appears in our first new Don Giovanni in over a decade – transferring straight from the Festival.’

‘Smart, subversive and just a little bit playful, Mariame Clément’s new staging gets under the skin of this classic opera and its elusive anti-hero, uncovering its tensions and deftly shifting perspectives.’ - Glyndebourne website

Performances 12 Nov- 2nd Dec

Public booking for the Autumn Programme opens on 28th May!

📣 With our next concert now just 2 months away the countdown has begun! Bach’s towering masterpiece is regarded as one of the finest choral works in history. We can’t wait to perform it with the wonderful NOXWODE Baroque and a stellar line-up of soloists: Charlotte Bowden, Bethany Horak Hallett, Hugo Hymas, and Frederick Long. Get your tickets now: https://www.kingslynnfestivalchorus.co.uk/forthcoming-concerts https://www.kingslynnfestivalchorus.co.uk/forthcoming-concerts

Such an incredible work that holds some very special memories for me! So excited to be back with for Bach B Minor Mass on 22nd April! ☺️

It’s time to meet the soloists! For Bach’s monumental ‘Mass in B minor’ we are once again joined by a wonderful line up soloists. Charlotte Bowden makes a welcome return to King’s Lynn Festival Chorus as the soprano soloist. A graduate of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, her career on the operatic stage goes from strength to strength with acclaimed appearances at many notable opera houses to her name. We are delighted that Charlotte is joining us once again! SATURDAY 22 APRIL, 7pm, St Nicholas Chapel, King’s Lynn.

Get your tickets HERE: https://www.kingslynncornexchange.co.uk/theatre/whats-on/event/klfc-j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor/

I am hugely grateful to share that I have received the Miss Miriam Trevaux Award for my work at Glyndebourne as Barbarina and cover Susanna in 2022!

Working at Glyndebourne has been such an artistically fulfilling and enjoyable experience, I can’t wait to be back!

✨ More exciting Glyndebourne related news to follow very soon… ✨

Well that was fun! Congratulations to my Figaro family for a fantastic cover run yesterday!

It has been such a joy to rehearse with these wonderful people over the last month at Glyndebourne. I’m so pleased we were able to share it with an audience and I can’t wait to work with you in the future. You’re all absolute stars! ✨

Puccini’s Il Tabarro with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé/The Wreckers by Ethel Smyth with Glyndebourne and the London Philharmonic

Two BBC Proms in a week! Can you guess which costume I chose…? 😂

Both now available to listen back, the Puccini is also available to watch on BBC iPlayer!

📸 Chris Christodoulou

✨Many thanks to Poppy Shotts at Showcase Creative for my snazzy new website! All the photography for the design is by the uber talented Helena Cooke Photography.✨

www.charlottebowdensoprano.com