Francesca Power

SOPRANO

Born in Italy, Francesca Power is a 25 year old British Soprano based in Milan. Francesca read Music at Lincoln College, University of Oxford where she was also awarded a choral scholarship to sing at St. Peter’s College and was invited to become a Lady of the Consort of Voices at Magdalen College. From 2016-18 she attended the Junior Royal Academy of Music, where she was a joint principal study singer and composer. There she studied Voice under John Lattimore and in her final year she won the Ann Lampard Singing competition competing against all other principal study singers. In 2013 she reached the National final of the Rotary Young Musician of the Year, and in 2017 she was the winner in the vocal category of the International Mozart Competition Composer Series. In 2018, Francesca reached the final of the University of Oxford’s Music competition, winning the vocal category throughout the University.

Francesca's stage performances include Phyllis in Iolanthe, Gilbert & Sullivan at the Royal Academy of Music and with the Oxford Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Britten. She has also covered the roles of Frasquita (Carmen) with Oxford University Opera Society, and 2nd Niece (Peter Grimes) at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2019 she made a special appearance in the production Amadeus at University College Oxford singing the lead female soprano role. as well as Dido (Dido and Aeneas) at Magdalen College, Oxford. In November 2021, Francesca performed the lead role, Eliza Doolittle, in My Fair Lady at Lincoln College, Oxford. In 2022 she was invited to sing the ‘Pie Jesu’ (Requiem, Andrew Lloyd Webber) to honour Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at ‘The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber’ concert that took place in the Teatru tal-Opra Aurora in Rabat, Malta. In 2023 she performed the role of Johanna (Sweeney Todd) in ‘A Taste of Sondheim’ at the Hurlingham Club, London. She recently performed arias by Verdi, Puccini, Lehàr and certain musical theatre numbers in the concert ‘Opera vs Pop Under the Stars’ put on in conjunction with the US Embassy to Malta and under the distinguished patronage of Ms Constance J. Milstein, US Ambassador to Malta. The concert took place at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Temples of Ggantija.

Francesca is taught by both John Lattimore and Samuel Queen of the London Singers Studio and has sung in masterclasses with Kim Lillian Strebel, Audrey Hyland, Roderick Williams OBE and Kate Paterson.

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