Rosa Sparks
Rosa Sparks is a British soprano, and a recent graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, where she studied under the tutelage of Elizabeth Ritchie.
Whilst completing her Masters, Rosa won the prestigious Frederic Cox Award for Singing competition, received the Dame Eva Turner Award, and won the Betty Bannerman Award for French Song with Clonter Opera. Rosa’s most recent operatic engagements include: Kate Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly (Grange Park Opera), Zerlina, Don Giovanni (Flat Pack Opera) and Emmie, Albert Herring (Opera North). Other roles include: Aloès, L'étoile (RNCM), Lucilla, La Scala di Seta (RNCM), Mrs Coyle Owen Wingrave (RNCM), Yum-Yum, The Mikado (Opera Anywhere), and Papagena, The Magic Flute (Opera Anywhere). Working in contemporary music, Rosa has created the leading roles of ‘The Soprano’ in Interrupted and ‘The Journalist’ in Silverwood.