Naomi Rodgers

Naomi is a soprano from Suffolk with a Master of Music in Performance degree and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Royal Northern College of Music. She has worked with many of the UK's top opera platforms, such as Opera Holland Park, Clonter Opera, BBC1, Opera North, Buxton Opera, and Northern Opera Group.

Naomi made her debut with Opera Holland Park in the UK premiere of Adamo's Little Women and performed the roles of Papagena and Gretel at the Edinburgh International Festival. She regularly works with Clonter Opera House, where her performances include Queen Titania in Puck's Adventure and soprano soloist in their opera gala. She sang Papagena and First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Clonter Opera, fulfilling one of her dream roles. Naomi also collaborated with Opera Holland Park and English National Ballet in Stravinsky’s Les Noces at Sadler's Wells.

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Recently, Naomi premiered Gary Lloyd's contemporary opera Disunited Jukebox, which toured across Northern England and performed at Glasgow’s Armadillo Stadium. She regularly performs internationally as a guest singer on cruise liners with The Little Opera Company.

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Other past operatic performances include: lead role (Juno) in Oxfordshire Contemporary Opera's '@Emele' (Simmonds), Northern Opera's 'Thomas and Sally' (Dorcas) by Arne, and Pauline Viardot's 'Cinderella' (ugly step-sister Armelinde), which was the winner of the 'Classical Music Digital Awards 2020. She sang a role in Poulenc’s 'Dialogues des carmélites' (Soeur Martha), Vaughan William's 'The Pilgrim's Progress' (Madam Bubble), Puccini’s 'Suor Angelica' (Maestra della Novizie), Offenbach's 'La Vie Parisienne' (Clara), Kurt Weill's 'Street Scene' and Benjamin Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Peaseblossom). Furthermore, she performed at the Buxton's International Opera Festival in the operas 'Georgiana' (multiple composers), covering the role of Grey, and in the chorus of both Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' and Caldara's 'Lucio Papirio Dittatore'. Naomi also premiered the brand new opera 'Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes' by Gary Lloyd, singing the title role at the Dublin 2019 WorldCon, held in the Convention Centre Dublin.



As a regular concert performer, Naomi’s highlights are performing as guest opera singer on BBC1's 'I Can See Your Voice' 2021, as guest soloist at the International Opera Awards 2019, which took place at the Saddler’s Wells Theatre in London and singing Mozart repertoire with the Hallé Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall. In 2020, Naomi made her recording debut as a soloist in Sullivan Songs alongside Sir David Owen Norris and has also featured as an artist for La ScenaMusicale, Canada's most respected classical music, opera, jazz and world music magazine. In 2021 she won the Sir David Maddison Opera Prize and has since sung in a handful of masterclasses, most notably with Ermolena Jaho (on behalf of the International Opera Awards).