PAULA SIDES

Paula was awarded the Tagor Gold Medal from the Royal College of Music and won the Karavoitis Prize in the Les Azureal International Competition. She will be performing Donizetti’s Lucrezia Spring 2023 for ETO, and returning to Scottish Opera for Dove’s Marx in London UK premier in 2024. She has performed on stages and concert platforms across the UK, the United States, and Europe. Paula was born in Tennessee and has since made the UK her home. She recently wrote a libretto for a children’s opera which was premiered for English Touring Opera in Spring 2021. She is also a passionate singing teacher who has experience working in the NHS Voice Clinic.

Operatic engagements include: Cunegonde Candide (Scottish Opera), Tsaritsa of Shemakha Golden Cockerel, Mimì La Bohème, Elettra Idomeneo with English Touring Opera. Recent roles include Donna Anna Don Giovanni (Longborough Festival Opera); Giulietta Un giorno di regno, title role Thaïs (Chelsea Opera Group); Cunegonde Candide (Iford Arts). As a concert soloist: Mahler 8th Symphony (Opera North Symphony Orchestra); Mahler 2nd Symphony, Strauss Four Last Songs, Rossini Stabat Mater, Mozart Requiem, Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Mass in C, Dvořák Te Deum, Britten War Requiem (Southampton Philharmonic and London Mozart Players).