Pamela Helen Stephen Death: Pamela Helen Stephen, 57-year-old, former British classical mezzo-soprano, died on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. She sang in operas and oratorios. She was a very talented soprano who performed with many of the world’s leading conductors, the likes of André Previn, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Eliot Gardiner, Antonio Pappano, and many more.
She was born in Solihull in 1964. She grew up in Scotland and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in musical performance in 1986. She later studied opera, lieder and oratorio singing, at the Opera Theater Center at Aspen, Colorado, with Herta Glaz, and at the University of Toronto, with Patricia Kern.
She sang and perform at festivals such as Edinburgh International Festival, the BBC Proms, the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, and Wexford Festivals, and more. She also notably performed as Caesar in Opera North’s 2012 production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, and Dido, in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, also with Opera North in 2013 and was nominated for the Robert Helpmann Award and won the Scottish Opera’s John Noble Award, the Caird Scholarship, the Countess of Munster Award and the Canadian/Scottish Philharmonic Society Award.
Pamela Helen Stephen’s obituary and memorial will be organized by the family