At William Christie’s invitation she made her début at the Opera Comique as Iris in Lully’s Atys, and performed Irene, Léontine and Flore in Robert Carsen’s production of Les Fetes Venitiennes at the Opera Comique, The Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and Brooklyn Academy of Music. She subsequently made her début at the Théâtre du Châtelet as Loena in La belle Hélène.
Rachel Redmond’s other operatic roles include the role of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro for English Touring Opera, Dalinda in Ariodante at the Göttingen International Handel Festival, Fortuna in L’incoronazione di Poppea at Opera du Rhin, Fairy Queen at Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, Dona Isabel in The Indian Queen at the Salzburg Festival with Utopia Orchestra, Belinda with Les Arts Florissants and, a return to Aix-en-Provence Festival, as Second Woman in Dido and Aeneas.
Recent highlights for Rachel Redmond include Myrtilla in Telemann’s opera Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon with Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Mozart Mass in C minor with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Galatea in Handel Acis and Galatea with the Dunedin Consort, Graun Der Tod Jesu with Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Calypso in Alessandro Scarlatti Telemaco with Concerto de’ Cavalieri, Papagena in Mozart Die Zauberflöte at the Edinburgh International Festival with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Scarlatti Stabat Mater with Ensemble Caravansérail, Esther in Handel’s Esther with Le Stagioni, Pergolesi Stabat Mater with le Poème Harmonique, and Bach Magnificat, Couperin Leçons de Ténèbres and Handel L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with Les Arts Florissants.
With William Christie and Les Arts Florissants Rachel Redmond has also performed Belinda Dido and Aeneas (USA tour), Caecilia in Charpentier’s Caecilia, Virgin and Martyr, Artebuse in Charpentier’s Actéon, Damon in Acis and Galatea, Bach Cantatas, Magnificat, B Minor mass and St John Passion, Grands Motets by Rameau and Mondonville, Charpentier’s Te Deum and works by Purcell and Boismortier at William Christie’s inaugural Festival at Thiré and Monteverdi Madrigals with Paul Agnew.
