Rachel Abbott completed her time as a young artist on the ENO’s Opera Works programme in 2017 and prior to this she completed a PGDIP AS and associate studentship at the RNCM, a PGCE at Nottingham Trent, a Master’s Degree at Huddersfield University and her undergraduate degree at Sheffield University. She began singing at an early age, joining Bolsover Church choir age eight and starting signing lessons when she was at secondary school.

Rachel has performed numerous solo concerts and performs with choirs regularly. Her performances include soloist in Muldowney’s Fall of Jerusalem, Handel’s Judas Maccabeus and Messiah, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and The Creation, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Polencs Gloria. She played Praskovia in the RNCM production of The Merry Widow and took the roles of Violetta, Suor Angelica, Alice Ford, Lady Billows, Donna Anna, Mrs Grose and Elettra in opera scenes with the ENO and RNCM. Rachel performed the roles of Nurse Maid and Shirley Kaplan in the RNCMs production of Street Scene. She performed the role of Donna Anna at the Lyric Opera Studio in Weimar in 2017. Rachel performed as Eleonora in LunchBreak operas production of First the music then the words by Salieri. In 2018 Rachel performed the roles of Valencienne in The Merry Widow by Lehar, Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro the title role in Bellini’s Norma and the role of Sophie queen of Bohemia in Barry Webb’s new opera Nepomuk. Rachel recently sang the role of Lady Macbeth with Leeds Youth Opera as an alongside mentoring programme and reprised the role with Preston Opera. She sang the role of Joanie in Women of Steel in Sheffield and the role of Violetta in La Traviata with Opera On Location.