Biography

Victoria was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and brought up in Cheshire, where she began singing at an early age with the soprano Sandra Dugdale. Whilst at the Birmingham Conservatoire, her teachers included Sarah Pring, before continuing her studies in Florence at the Istituto Europeo with Valeria Frelli. She is currently under the tutelage of Louise Crane. 

She has enjoyed success in the Ashleyan Opera Prize, The Mario Lanza Prize and the Birmingham Conservatoire Singing Prize, and was awarded the Rae Woodland Scholarship for a Young Singer in 2007. In 2006, she toured Italy and France with the British Youth Opera production of La Boheme, and in September 2007 she was privileged to sing at the inauguration of the Second International Arts Festival in Treviso, Italy.
She performs regularly with Birmingham based companies Opera Delights and Operamus, and was recently delighted to take part in the first Hinckley Opera Festival, Leicestershire, before returning home to sing ‘Rule Britannia’ at the St Georges Day Event at Stockport Town Hall.

She has appeared as an English song, Melodie, Opera and Oratorio soloist with numerous ensembles performing in venues around Europe, and has taken part in various musical theatre concerts around the UK, aswell as being an active volunteer for the British Heart Foundation, raising money for a Gift Of Hope Fund in memory of her father.
She has recently performed selections from Puccini’s glorious opera Madame Butterfly and Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutti with Opera Delights, and in December of 2009, she took the role of professional Chorus and Chorus Mentor in Graham Vick’s ground breaking production of Othello with Birmingham Opera Company. This is to be featured in the BBC’s Verdi Festival in 2010.

Opera Magazine described her as ‘stunning’ for her performance as La Contessa in Birmingham Conservatoire’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro.