Grace Maria Wain
Grace Maria Wain
Mezzosoprano
Upcoming engagements include:
2024-25
Grimgerde - Die Walküre (Wagner) - Regents Opera
Chorus - Parsifal (Wagner) - Temple Music Foundation/ Orpheus Sinfonia
Mezzo soloist - Symphony no. 9 (Beethoven) - Cambridge Philharmonic
Grace graduated with an MA in Opera Performance from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she studied with Suzanne Murphy. She also has a First Class BMus (Hons) degree from RWCMD.
She is currently studying privately with Christopher Turner-Pearce and is a Samling Artist.
Grace’s role highlights include: Waltraute Die Walküre (Wagner) with New Palace Opera, Wellgunde Götterdämmerung (Wagner) with Edinburgh Players Opera Group, Magdalene (Cover) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner) with Saffron Opera Group, Erika Vanessa (Barber) with Regents Opera (Orchestral Workshop), Flosshilde (Cover)/ Zweite Norn (Cover) Götterdämmerung (Wagner) with Longborough Festival Opera, Rose O'Riordan The Ballybruff Trilogy (Luke Byrne) with Opera Workshop Limerick (world premiere), Zia Principessa Suor Angelica (Puccini) with Wexford Festival Opera, Blumenmädchen Parsifal (Wagner) with New Palace Opera, Grimgerde Die Walküre (Wagner) with Regents Opera, Zweite Norn (Cover) Götterdämmerung (Wagner) with Longborough Festival Opera, Cercatrice 1 and Sorella Infermiera (Cover) Suor Angelica (Puccini) with Scottish Opera, 1st Lady The Spectre Knight (Cellier) with Wexford Festival Opera, Melissa La liberazione di Ruggiero (Caccini) with Longborough Festival Opera, Giulia The Gondoliers (Gilbert and Sullivan), Hippolyta (Cover) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten), Dorabella (Cover) Così fan tutte (Mozart), Zweite Dame Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Glaša (Cover) Katya Kabanova (Janaček), Dryade (Cover) Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss) all with Scottish Opera, Prince Charmant Cendrillon (Massenet) with Fife Opera, Zweite Dame/Zweite Knabe Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) with Escales Lyrique, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) with Les Azuriales
Grace is a recipient of the Bayreuther Stipendiaten supported by the London Wagner Society (2024), a semifinalist in the Elizabeth Connell Prize (2024), won the Carole Rees Wagner Bursary which is awarded by The Mastersingers' (2023), was a semifinalist for Grand Prix de la Voix with Centre D’Art Lyrique de La Méditaranée (2023), qualified as a Wagner Prize nominee for International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (2022), a finalist in International Concours de Chant Lyrique de Béziers a qualifier for The Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (2019), a finalist in the Ljuba Welitsch International Vocal Competition (2017), as well as in Les Azuriales competition (2016).
On the oratorio platform Grace has appeared as soloist in; Sangs from Hyme, Symphony for me Marras and Vox Clamantis (all Ben Lunn), Messiah( Händel) , Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Vaughn Williams) , Stabat Mater (Haydn) , Regina Coeli KV 267, Requiem , and Coronation Mass (all Mozart), Feel the Spirit (Rutter) and Ceremony of Carols (Britten) .
She has taken part in masterclasses with; Susan Bullock (Longborough Festival Opera), John Fulljames (International Vocal Competition’s-Hertogenbosch), Malcolm Martineau at Crear Space to Create with the generous support of a Dewar Award, Dame Felicity Palmer (Cardiff Singer of the World Masterclass), John Fisher, Anne Mason, Elin Manahan Thomas, Rebecca Evans, Teresa Cahill, Janice Chapman and Simon Lepper.