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Rose Rands

Soprano | Actor | Librettist

About Rose

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Hello! I’m Rose, a lyric coloratura soprano with a deep love for the operatic canon as well as a passion for creating and performing original theatre. I sing musical theatre and operatic repertoire, and have done acting and voiceover work. I committed to singing after studying Philosophy at Oxford and King’s College London, and working in a variety of fields. This academic and professional background informs the political and creative motivations of my art. I am a firm believer that opera is for everyone, and that it comes into its own in close collaboration with other art forms, performing and otherwise. I am therefore passionate about interdisciplinary and cross-genre work.

In September 2025, composer/pianist Marco Galvani and I premiered the recital version of our original piece, Winged Words, at the National Opera Studio in London. This piece will be developed into its staged chamber opera version for the 2026 season.

Please see below for details of my prizes and performances, past and future.

Original Projects

In 2023 I worked with a dancer and director to co-create a choreopera, and this spawned my passion for creating original pieces.

I have written the libretto for an opera, Winged Words, that composer Marco Galvani has written for my voice.This premiered as an unstaged recital performance at the National Opera Studio on 26th September 2025. We will develop it into a staged chamber opera for a festival in summer 2026.

I recently founded and ran two pilot schemes of an expenses fund for singers in collaboration with a business. My plan is, in the future, to found a charity that awards grants to singers to help them cover the costs of auditions and competitions.

Upcoming events

Prizes, titles and awards

Semi-finalist, Concorso Internazionale per Canti Lirici 2025

Funded Artist - Opera Greenwich Artist Development Programme 2024-5 season

Associate Artist - Oxford Opera Society

Semi-finalist, Lake Como International Opera Competition 2024

1st Prize - Paris International Music Competition 2024

1st Prize - London Classical Music Competition 2024

Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust grant recipient 2024

Special mention - Edith Poulsen Singing Prize Competition - North London Festival 2024

Help Musicians UK grant recipient 2024

Mario Lanza Educational Trust grant recipient 2024

Melofonetica scholar 2023

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama - MMus (distinction) 2022

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Past Events

September 2025

Soprano and librettist

Winged Words world premiere with composer/pianist Marco Galvani

National Opera Studio, London

June 2025

Papagena

The Magic Flute (Mozart) with Opera Greenwich

Greenwich Theatre

June 2025

Fisherwoman/ensemble

Peter Grimes (Britten) with New Palace Opera

St John’s Waterloo

April 2025

Soprano soloist

Gounod St Cecilia Mass and Schubert Mass in G Shoreham Oratorio Choir

Conducted by Lucia Švecovà

December 2024

Soprano soloist Messiah (Handel)
Christus (Mendelssohn)
Gloria (Vivaldi)

Shoreham Oratorio Choir cond. Lucia Švecovà

October 2024

Lover / Midinette in Il Tabarro (Puccini)

Instant Opera
Normansfield Theatre

cond. Lewis Gaston - dir. Valeria Perboni

October 2024

Actor in Rita (Donizetti)

Instant Opera - Normansfield Theatre

cond. Lewis Gaston - dir. Valeria Perboni

July 2024

Belinda (cover) - Dido & Aeneas, Purcell


Somerset Opera & Taunton Sinfonietta

March 2024

Stanislavski Workshop for Singers
Directed by Carmen Jakobi

with London Singers Collective

March 2024

Singer & Actor


Maomi Meindl Art Exhibition
Goldsmiths University

2023

Soprano soloist / dancer / actor

Letter to Man: A Nijinsky Project
Dir. William Byram

Laban Theatre

2023

Recital Concert
Collaboration with mezzo-soprano Arina Mkrtchian
and pianist Michelle Santiago

Loveday Abbey Road

2023

Fiordiligi - Cosi fan Tutte, Mozart
Arte Lirica Festival
Teatro Eleanora Duse Opera House
Veneto, Italy

2023

Annina La Traviata (Verdi)

Instant Opera
Normansfield Theatre

cond. Lewis Gaston - dir. Valeria Perboni

2022

Step-out solos & chorus
La Traviata, Faust, The Merry Widow

Opéra de Baugé Summer Festival

cond. Konstantinos Diminakis

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Teaching & Coaching

  • I have years of experience teaching singing, including time in one of London’s top private schools. I teach all ages and stages. Please be in touch below to inquire about a lesson.

  • I offer French repertoire language coaching for singers, as well as French language lessons. I have coached singers studying at the Royal College of Music, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

  • I teach philosophy and French at A-Level and Oxbridge entrance.

    I have philosophy degrees from University of Oxford (BA Philosophy & French) and King’s College London (MA Philosophy). My areas of special interest include feminist philosophy of language, social epistemology, and the metaphysics of gender. I have written about the dynamics and parameters of silencing practices, particularly surrounding accounts of gender-based violence. I have also written on metaphor in musicology as a bridge between analytic and continental philosophical schools, and translation theory pertaining specifically to opera libretti.

    See below for client testimonials:

    “I wanted to thank you for all your incredible support; I've really enjoyed our sessions and the intriguing rabbit holes we got ourselves into, and have found your advice invaluable during this application process. Thanks to you, I was super happy with my personal statement and the way my interviews went!” - student with offer for philosophy at Cambridge, 2025

    “Thank you so so so much for all your help - you are not just an amazing teacher but person as well…I’m so incredibly grateful for you and what you put in to help me achieve my dream” - student with offer for philosophy at Cambridge, 2024

    “Rose is an incredible teacher who is not only super thorough and hardworking but so committed to your success as an individual. She can certainly teach you for a test and general knowledge if that's what you would like (we got to the point where I was consistently scoring 20/20 on a 20min Cambridge admissions test in under 3 minutes) but she is most talented at bringing to you and discussing with you articles, ideas, scholars on stuff that really interests you, and you in particular. I have a folder on my laptop of articles that she has sent me - all of which I have read and annotated to death. She knew I would love them because she was genuinely interested in me as a student and fledgling academic. I ended up getting into Cambridge and she was the first person I emailed to say thank you!” 2024

    “I truly cannot thank you enough for all of the support you’ve given me over the past few months - I really can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. Thanks so much for everything, your excellent tuition and stellar emotional support” student with offer for philosophy & French at Oxford, 2023

Contact

Get in touch with Rose through the form below:

Find me on various platforms: https://linktr.ee/roserands

Location:
Based in London