Kezia Bienek

mezzo-soprano

British born and of Mauritian and Lithuanian heritage, Kezia moved to London from Gloucestershire aged 16 to study musical theatre at the Brit School. During that time, she was drawn to opera and went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She completed her studies at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School of the Royal College of Music (RCM) in 2015. Kezia is a Solti Te Kanawa Academia di Bel Canto alumna, and worked with many wonderful singers in various masterclasses during her training years, notably Brigitte Fassbaender, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Richard Bonynge and Sir Thomas Allen.

Current and recent engagements include the title role in Carmen and Beppe in L’amico Fritz for Opera Holland Park, Suzuki in Madame Butterfly and Second Lady in The Magic Flute for Welsh National Opera and Silvia (The Messenger) in Orfeo at Opera North, as well as a return to Glyndebourne Festival in 2024.

She made her Glyndebourne Festival début as Cornelia in Giulio Cesare, and later that year as Dorothée in Cendrillon (directed by Fiona Shaw) in her début for Glyndebourne on Tour. In 2019 she appeared as Second Lady in The Magic Flute for her Welsh National Opera début , where she soon returned to sing Forester’s Wife (and cover Fox) in Cunning Little Vixen. Other opera engagements have included La frugola in Il tabarro and Gianetta in

Don Bucefalo (Wexford

Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw (Barnes Festival), Iside in Giove in Argo and Tauride in Arianna in Creta (London Handel Festival), Concepcion in L’heure espagnole and Doralicein in La gazzetta (RCM), Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro (British Youth Opera) and Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Glyndebourne Youth Opera).

Upcoming appearances include recitals with Opera Rara this summer in Cardiff and London. This is her debut with Opera Rara.