Liz Brice

Elizabeth Brice trained at the Royal Academy of Music, the National Opera Studio, with Titio Gobbi in Florence and Yvonne Rodd-Marling and Peter Harrison in London. Prizes include the Opera Prize, a Countess of Munster Scholarship and a Royal Overseas League Award, among many others.

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Early roles include: Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) for Aldeburgh Festival with Peter Pears, conducted by Rostropovich; Therese/Tiresias (Les Mamelles de Tiresias) for English National Opera and Elvira (Don Giovanni) for Edinburgh Festival. Other roles for, among many others, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne; Berlin Kammeroper and Covent Garden include: the Countess (Marriage of Figaro), Fiordiligi (Cost fan Tutte), Salome (Salome), Electra (Idomeneo) - conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), Tosca (Tosca), Emilia Marty (Markropoulos Case), Lady Billows (Albert Herring) and Euryanthe (Euryanthe). 

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Elizabeth also played Florinda, alongside Imelda Staunton, in the British premiere and cast recording of Sondheim's Into the Woods, directed by Richard Jones. She also created the role of Jacqueline in Neil Barlett's musical version of A Judgement in Stone for the Lyric Hammersmith, with Sheila Hancock.

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Beside her solo career Liz has been teaching for 30 years in London and at her home in Glynde, near Lewes. Believing that singing must be totally informed by the need to communicate above all else. The 'free voice' and body being the means by which this may be accomplished, both through singing and speaking. Liz works with professional singers, actors, dancers and increasingly with children and young singers.

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Teaching children from the age of 6 or so, many of whom are now taking leading roles at Glydebourne, Aldeburgh, Covent Garden and most recently La Scala! Four of the ten young people short-listed fir the new Gus Christie and Bill Weston awards at Glyndebourne were trained by Liz.