British-Irish soprano Hazel Neighbour is a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music Opera Studio. She has performed with various UK companies such as Glyndebourne, Mid Wales Opera, and the Grimeborn Festival. Hazel is an alumna of British Youth Opera, the Franz Schubert Institute, and the Dartington International Festival.

Her upcoming engagements include a tour of Germany with Junge Oper Detmold, where she will perform the roles of Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Agathe in Der Freischütz, and the title role in Rusalka. Additionally, she will perform Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea at Théâtre Basse Passière.

Other roles she has performed include Mimì, La bohème; Micaëla, Carmen; Contessa Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro; Governess, The Turn of the Screw; Fox, The Cunning Little Vixen; and Erste Dame, Die Zauberflöte. As an advocate of contemporary music, Hazel created the role of Atalya in The Butt, adapted from the celebrated book by Will Self, at the contemporary music festival Musiktheatertage Wien in Austria.

Hazel is a keen interpreter of song and is an alumna of the prestigious Franz Schubert Institut Lied programme in Austria and the Academy Song Circle. Highlights of Hazel’s concert and oratorio experience include A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams at Dorking Halls, Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder and Mozart’s Vesperae solemnes de confessore at West Road Concert Hall.