Biography

From Perthshire, Scotland, Alycia Fashae studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the Centre de Formation Lyrique de L'Opera National de Paris. While in Paris, she made her debut for the Opera National de Paris in Rigoletto, subsequently performing in Lulu and Bataclan while understudying the role of Servilia in La Clemenza Di Tito. Alycia toured extensively with the Centre and also France Opera, singing in many provincial Theatres, in such roles as Pamina, Servilia, Adina, Fiordiligi, Lucia, Clorinda, La Cenerentola; Juliette and Constance, Dialogue des Carmelites. 

 

Since returning from France, Alycia's roles have included: Musetta La Boheme English National Opera, Mid-Wales Opera; Leila, Les Pecheurs de Perles for English National Opera, Swansea City Opera, Frasquita Carmen, English National OperaDonna Anna, Don Giovanni, Diva Opera, Opera des Azuriales, Theatre de Neuchatel, Switzerland and the Festival de la Vezere, Mid-Wales Opera, Opera a la Carte and The Water Music Festival of Ireland; Violetta La Traviata,The European Chamber Opera, Mimi La Boheme Diva Opera, European Chamber Opera; Gilda Rigoletto for The European Chamber Opera, Pamina Die Zauberflote, Diva Opera; Antonia Les Contes D'Hoffmann, Diva Opera; Gianetta, The Gondoliers, Carl Rosa Opera; Adele, Die Fledermaus, Opera Box; Alice Ford, Falstaff  and Rosalinde, Die Fledermaus, Opera Project, and Norina, Don Pasquale, Opera a la Carte.

 

In the United States of America, Alycia toured 29 states in the title role of The Merry Widow for Columbia Artists and participated in the Bermuda Festival.

 

Alycia looks forward to starting 2009 with a 40 date European Tour of Strauss Gala Concerts.

 

Other Concert repertoire includes- Beethoven's Missa Solemnis; Rossini's Stabat Mater; Carl Orff's Carmina Burana; Handel's Messiah; Schubert's Mass in A flat; Brahms Requiem; Strauss' Four Last Songs and Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail.

 

 Film appearances include: Baron's wife- Il Cuor e La Strada (European Film Studios Collaboration) and Salome (Strauss), A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (Merchant Ivory)

Radio broadcasts: In Tune- BBC Radio3; St Antonio, Texas- Classical Hour; Pennsylvania State Radio, Radio France.