British-Irish-Turkish high soprano Nazan Fikret is “a silver-toned soprano whose growing reputation is built on the unaffected beauty of her voice and the intelligence with which she deploys it.” (Mark Valencia, Opera). Trained at the GSMD, she is former Britten-Pears Young Artist, Making Music AYCA Winner and recipient of an International Opera Awards Bursary. She has garnered critical acclaim across major international opera houses and festivals, as well as establishing herself in concert and song platforms, and as a passionate educator and advocate for arts in the community.

Nazan has been a principal for opera houses such as Royal Ballet and Opera, English National Opera, Teatro Real, Glyndebourne, Opera North, Welsh National Opera and Nederlandse Reisopera. This season she made her role debut as First Niece in Peter Grimes for Opera North and is shortly to create the role of Rukmini in the World Premiere of Taverner’s Krisha for Grange Park Opera. To conclude the season, she returns to the role of Queen of the Night for West Green House Opera. Recent engagements include her Buxton International Festival debut as Madame Herz in Mozart’s The Impresario, role debuts as Anne Trulove Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress and Clorinda Rossini Cenerentola, for English Touring Opera; Suor Genovieffe Puccini Suor Angelica for West Green House Opera. Notable baroque debuts include Teofane Handel Ottone for English Touring Opera, and Aristea Pergolesi L’Olimpiade for Vache Baroque.

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