Elizabeth Findon (nee Skinner)

Soprano

Elizabeth Findon (nee Skinner) is an English Soprano and a graduate of the prestigious Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) and completed her undergraduate degree at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). She continues to study with John Evans.

She is currently working as part of the summer season in the chorus for Glyndebourne Festival Opera having finished the Autumn season in 2020 covering the role of First Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. She completed her first season in the 2019 Festival and was due to be singing there in the 2020 season which was cancelled. Chorus credits for Glyndebourne include; Káťa Kabanová (Janáček), Il Turco in Italia (Rossini), Luisa Miller (Verdi) 2021, La damnation de Faust (Berlioz), Rusalka (Dvořák) and Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) during the 2019 festival, L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti) and Rigoletto (Verdi) on tour 2019.

Elizabeth made her National Theatre debut in 2018 in Michael Longhurst's acclaimed production of Peter Shaffer's iconic play, Amadeus. She covered the role of Katerina Cavalieri and the ‘Opera Club’. Music by Mozart, Vivaldi and additional music by Simon Slater

Previous roles include Fiordiligi Così fan tutte (Mozart) and Countessa Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) for Clonter Opera. Micaëla Carmen (Bizet) for both RNCM and CCYO.

Roles whilst on the Opera Course at GSMD include Iolanta - title role (Tchkaiovsky), Fraarte - Radamisto (Handel) and she created the role of Proserpina in the world premier of The Tale of Januarie in collaboration with the Royal Opera House (Julian Phillips and Stephen Plaice). Opera Scenes include excerpts from Don Giovanni - Donna Anna, La Clemenza di Tito - Vitelia, Fidelio - Leonora, Eugene Onegin - Tatiana, Peter Grimes - Ellen Orford, Die Tote Stadt - Marietta and Arabella - title role.  

Elizabeth has recorded for the LSO with Sir Simon Rattle as a soloist in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with Hyperion Records and has sung extensively throughout the UK as a soloist.

During her studies and training she has been generously supported by The Dyers’ Company and The Drapers’ Company where she was a Baroness de Turckheim Scholar, and Help Musicians where was a Sybil Tutton Award Winner. 

She is married to the English tenor John Findon.