Radmilovic Opera
So why the two names? I began my career in Opera and Operetta under my Mothers Maiden family Croatian name Radmilovic, with my Great Grand Father being Paulo Radmilovic, Wales Olympian four gold medallist British Water Polo Captain ...despite training twice a day in swimming in my teens I decided to go into the Arts and studied Opera at the Royal Northern College of Music as a Peter Moores Scholar . In the penultimate summer of my training, a group of us were invited to be part of the Bayreuth Wagner Festival ensemble where I discovered the German Repertory House system with its flourishing eighty opera houses. Winning the Elizabeth Harwood Best Singer of the Year in 1994 I got a place at the International Zurich Opera Studio and and spent thirteen extraordinary years under contract at Osnabrück State Opera House. and later St Gallen Opera whilst guesting throughout Germany. I returned to the UK to be part of the Ring Cycle at the Longborough Festival as Freia in Das Rheingold.
Versatility seemed to be my calling card winning the Public Vote performance Prize at the Robert Stolz Operetta competition in Hamburg and in 2009 out of the blue I took a years contract as Carlotta in Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's, West End.
Operetta credits: Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and Lisa in Land des Lächeln, (Osnabrück Opernhaus), Sylva Varescu in Kalmanns Czardas Fürstin (St Gallen Opernhaus).
Opera credits; Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte (Eutin Festival/ St Gallen Theatre, Obberamagau Festival), Minette in The English Cat (Deutsche Radio/, Osnabrück State Opera), Lady Billows in Albert Herring (Dortmund Opera) Mimi and Musetta - La Boheme, Counters in Die Nozze di Figaro, Tatijana in Eugene Onegin, Vitellia in Mozart’s Titus, Agathe in Der Freischütz , Donna Elvira - Don Giovanni, Violetta in La Traviata, Madame Butterfly (Osnabrück and Heidelberg Opernhaus), Frau Fluth - Merry wives of Windsor (Weimer Opernhaus, Osnabrück), Antonia Tales of Hoffmann; Leila in Pearl Fishers; Hans Sachs, Kleider machen Leute. Soloist in Janacek Glagolitic Mass (staged)
Musical theatre credits; Myrtel Bagot in Emma Rice adaptation of Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter at the Watermill, Newbury 2021; Chief Wiesel/Elsbeth in Wind in the Willows and soloist at the Night at the Musicals and Opera at Pitlochry Summer Festival 2021; Wizard in the Wizard of Oz (Selladoor worldwide), Lottie Child - Crazy for you (No.1 National Tour Jamie Wilson Productions), Mrs Zero - Adding Machine ((Finborough), Mrs O'Brien & Parthy/ensemble- Showboat (Crucible Sheffield/New London Theatre), Madame Barbier - Braille Legacy (Charing Cross Theatre), Carlotta - Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's), Gemma - Jackie the Musical (Gardyne Theatre, Dundee), Mirele - Soviet Zion (concept Album - Aria Entertainment/stage kindly)
Currently playing Mrs Gloop and Grandma Josephine in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Playful Productions and Neal Productions Leeds Playhouse National Tour.