A former BBC New Generation Artist, she made her professional debut as Humperdinck's Hänsel for Scottish Opera, followed by her international debuts at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and at the Salzburg Festival as Carmi in an unstaged performance of Mozart's La Betulia Liberata;[1] a performance which was recorded and released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon.
She is particularly associated with the Bayerische Staatsoper and its distinguished musical director Kirill Petrenko, where her roles have included Second Norn, Roßweise, Floßhilde, Hedwige and La Ciesca.
She has appeared in opera at the Teatro alla Scala as Mrs Grose in The Turn of the Screw (Britten) and Gaia in Giorgio Battistelli's CO2, and additionally at the Salzburg Festival as Lady de Hautdesert in Gawain (Birtwistle), and as Leda in Die Liebe der Danae (Strauss).
She made her solo recital debut at the Wigmore Hall accompanied by Joseph Middleton and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Her extensive discography includes Anthony Payne's arrangement of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins for Albion Records, which she premiered at the BBC Proms (Vänska/BBCSO) and which was nominated for a Grammy Award.