British soprano Rosa Sparks is studying at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she is completing her Postgraduate Diploma under the tutelage of Elizabeth Ritchie. During her studies at the RNCM, Rosa won the prestigious Frederic Cox Award for Singing competition, and received the Dame Eva Turner Award.

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Rosa’s recent operatic engagements include: Emmie in Britten’s Albert Herring (Opera North) Aloès in Chabrier’s L’étoile (RNCM) and Lucilla in Rossini’s La Scala di Seta for (RNCM). Other opera roles include: Yum-Yum, The Mikado (Opera Anywhere), First Lady and Papagena, The Magic Flute (Opera Anywhere), Belinda, Dido and Aeneas (Opera Sparks), Miss Havisham, Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night (Light’s On Theatre), and Chorus in Cherry Town Moscow (Welsh National Opera Young Company).

Rosa has a particular interest in contemporary music, and has created the leading roles of ‘The Soprano’ in Interrupted (a modern comedic opera which premiered at the Cardiff Atmospheres Festival), and ‘The Journalist’ in Silverwood (Manchester Community Opera).

Rosa is also a member of RNCM Songsters and performed in the Street Chorus for the RNCM’s fiftieth Anniversary production of Bernstein’s Mass. In 2022 she won the John Ireland Song Prize, administered by the John Ireland Trust.

Recent solo oratorio work includes Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Ascension Oratorio, Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate, and Schubert’s Mass in Ab.