INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler's Wells · Artist support

Meeta Raval Soprano

Recipient of INDEPENDENT OPERA Vocal Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music

Born in Wolverhampton, Meeta Raval was one of the first head girl choristers in the history of Wells Cathedral. In 2005 she graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with a First Class Honours Music degree. She currently studies on the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music with Janice Chapman and Jonathan Papp. She is the winner of the Dame Eva Turner Competition for ‘a Soprano with dramatic potential’, the 2006 Maidment Scholarship and the Sybill Tutton Award 2007. Meeta is also supported by the Royal Academy of Music, Josephine Baker Trust and Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust.

Meeta has participated in masterclasses led by Sally Burgess, Ian Burnside, Diane Forlano, Emma Kirkby, Graham Johnson, Dame Anne Murray, Sarah Walker and Edith Wiens. Opera scene roles include Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Cleopatra, Fedora, Giorgetta Nedda and Mimi.

Meeta was the soprano soloist in Janáček’s The diary of the one who disappeared at the 2005 City of London Festival broadcasted on BBC Radio 3. In July 2006 she sang Teresa (Das Wundertheater) at the Teatro Poliziano, Montepulciano, Italy. In August 2006 she took part in the Solti Accademia di Bel Canto held in Castiglione, Italy, where she participated in masterclasses by Mirella Freni and performed with the Orchestra Città di Grosseto at the Salone De Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

Oratorio performances include solo soprano in Bach’s Mass in b minor conducted by Trevor Pinnock, Countess (Marriage of Figaro) conducted by Sir Colin Davis, Jonathan Harvey’s Song Offerings conducted by Dominic Wheeler and, in association with the South Bank Centre, a BBC radio broadcast of Discovering Figaro. Operatic performances include Magda (La Rondine) for British Youth Opera.