MONICAMCGHEE.CO.UK SOPRANO

MONICA MCGHEE

Scottish soprano Monica McGhee was a 20/21 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio and a graduate of the RSAMD (now RCS) and the RCM.

Recent operatic appearances include the Scottish Opera Highlights Tour 2022, cover Blumenmädchen Parsifal (Opera North), Belle Lurette Belle Lurette (New Sussex Opera), Princess Zara Utopia Limited (National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company), Donna Anna Don Giovanni (Dorset Opera Festival), Leila Les Pêcheurs de perles (Opera Bohemia), Mimì La Bohème with Kensington Symphony Orchestra and Opera D’Amore.

Monica made her Opera Rara recording debut last season as Francesco in Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde.

On the concert platform, Monica has performed as a soloist in some of the country’s greatest venues including The Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Bridgewater Hall, The Barbican, Glasgow City Halls and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

She was a competition finalist in the 2016 Susan Chilcott Award and the 2011 and 2014 Les Azuriales Opera Competition. She was a finalist in the international Tenor Viñas competition in January 2021.

Monica has sung internationally with The Royal Opera House for their 2019 tour to Japan and in Sweeney Todd with Bergen Nasjonale Opera.

This season Monica will return to Opera North as Leila (cover) and will sing the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta with If Opera. She will also sing Béatrice for Mid Wales Opera in their autumn production of Béatrice and Bénédict.

PRESS

“And there is a delightful character study from Monica McGhee... she has absorbed the Queen's English so much she sounds like the Queen herself.”

TheatreReviewsNorth
“Monica McGhee (a deliciously arch Princess Zara) with McGhee’s clear, chiming soprano flickering brightly at the top of the ensemble numbers.”

TheArtsDesk.com
“Soloist Monica McGhee found herself fully-exercised in the soprano role, her joyous and consolatory soprano soaring above the choir… but it was the Laudate Dominum which stood out, McGhee spellbinding…”

Sarah Urwin Jones, The Herald
“Another revelation in this production was the young Scottish Soprano Monica McGhee singing Donna Anna. It’s a hackneyed expression but, McGhee was born to perform this role! It will be her calling card to the world’s major opera houses.”

Martina Bet, Daily Express
“As Leila Monica McGhee, as the other point in that love triangle, was quite simply a stunning sensation, a sort of femme fatale with grace and elegance.”

Dundee Courier
“A lucid, limpid voice seems sure to take Monica McGhee (Mimi) far.”

George Hall, Opera Magazine
“Monica McGhee made a delightfully feisty Lurette… singing with great charm and moving between the sparkling and sentimental with great ease. She even gave us cart wheels and hand stands in the last act. Performing this sort of music requires the right combination of personality, musicality and style and McGhee has this in spades.”

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MONICAMCGHEE.CO.UK SOPRANO

MONICA MCGHEE

PRESS

“And there is a delightful character study from Monica McGhee... she has absorbed the Queen's English so much she sounds like the Queen herself.”

“Monica McGhee (a deliciously arch Princess Zara) with McGhee’s clear, chiming soprano flickering brightly at the top of the ensemble numbers.”

“Soloist Monica McGhee found herself fully-exercised in the soprano role, her joyous and consolatory soprano soaring above the choir… but it was the Laudate Dominum which stood out, McGhee spellbinding…”

“Another revelation in this production was the young Scottish Soprano Monica McGhee singing Donna Anna. It’s a hackneyed expression but, McGhee was born to perform this role! It will be her calling card to the world’s major opera houses.”

“As Leila Monica McGhee, as the other point in that love triangle, was quite simply a stunning sensation, a sort of femme fatale with grace and elegance.”

“A lucid, limpid voice seems sure to take Monica McGhee (Mimi) far.”

CHARITY MAPLETOFT

ANNA-LUISE WAGNER