Cressida Sharp

Competition repertoire

Preliminary

• Bach: Johannes-Passion - Zerfliesse, mein Herze  

Semi-Final 

• Massenet: Hérodiade - Il est doux, il est bon (Salomé)
• Mozart: Don Giovanni - Crudele? Ah, no mio bene … Non mi dir, bell' idol mio(Donna Anna)   

Final 

• Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci - Qual fiamma avea nel guardo ... Stridono lassù (Nedda)  
• Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - When I am laid (Dido)  

The English soprano graduates from the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music in 2008 and until 2011 she was a choral scholar at the University of Cambridge. She has been studying a wide range of opera roles, such as the Massanet’s Manon, Williams’s Cathleen from Riders to the Sea, Bernstein’s Cunigonde from Candide, Britten’s Juliet from The Little Sweep, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida, Händel’s Semelé and many others.

Cressida has been singing in various choirs, such as the Nederlands Kamerkoor (2015-2020), the Bach Choir of the Netherlands (2016-2018), the Capella Amsterdam, the Vox Luminis, or the NLse Bachvereinigung. Besides her English native language, she speaks Dutch, German, Latin, Ancient Greek and familiarizes herself with Korea, Hindi, Hebrew, and Spanish, but has also already sung in Czech, Norwegian, and Hungarian among others.

The following list shows her performances and the sung pieces of music:

Bach: Matthäus-Passion (South Korea; Cambridge) - Johannes-Passion (Cambridge) - Weihnachtsoratorium (Brussels; Leuven; Utrecht; Amsterdam) - Hohe Messe (Moscow; Cambridge) - Ciaconna (Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires)

Händel: Messiah (Freiburg im Breisgau; Yorkshire) - Dixit Dominus (BBC Radio 3; Aldeburgh Festival; Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay) - Ode for St Cecilia’s Day (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Fauré: Requiem (King’s College, Cambridge)

Mozart: Requiem (TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht)

Couperin: Leçons de ténèbres (King’s College, Cambridge; York Minster)

Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia (BBC Radio 3; Aldeburgh Festival) - ‘Rejoice in the Lamb’ (BBC Radio 3; Zürich; recorded 2011 on Harmonia Mundi)

Dvořák: Stabat Mater (Yorkshire)

Ravel: Trois Chansons (Schubertiade, Biel/Bienne)

Boulanger: ‘Soir sur la plaine’ (NPO Radio 4; TivoliVredenburg)

Allegri: ‘Miserere mei’ (NPO 4; Concertgebouw & Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam)

Tippett: ‘A Child of Our Time’ (Aldeburgh)

Auerbach: ‘72 Angels’ (Muziekgebouw; recorded 2019 on Alpha Classics)

Goodall: ‘Every Purpose Under the Heaven’ (Saltaire, Yorkshire)

Leighton: ‘Coventry Carol’ (BBC Radio 3)

O’Regan: ‘The Great Silence’ (world and UK premières)