Yolanda Grant-Thompson

Yolanda Grant-Thompson trained at Royal Academy of Music and Royal Northern College of Music, receiving the Lord Pitt and Wingate Awards. She was awarded the Laura Monaghan Bursary by Opera Holland Park.

Yolanda’s operatic engagements include: Jenny Slade & Alida Slade (Cover) in ‘Roman Fever’ by Philip Hagemann (Pegasus Opera), The Innkeeper’s Wife in ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ (Opera Holland Park); Annie in the BBC TV film of ‘Porgy and Bess’ directed by Sir Trevor Nun (Royal Opera House), ‘Porgy and Bess’ with Sir Willard White directed by Sir Trevor Nunn; Charlotte in ‘Werther’ (RNCM); Dorabella in ‘Cosi fan tutte’ excerpts (Aix-en-Provence Music Festival); ‘Porgy and Bess’ (English National Opera & Dutch National Opera); ‘Pagliacci’, ’La Boheme’, ‘Le Villi’, ‘L’amico Fritz’, ‘Iolanta’ and ‘L’arlesiana’ (Opera Holland Park); Third Lady in ‘The Magic Flute’, Lola in ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’; a Witch in Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’ (Brent Opera);  ‘Nabucco’, ‘Madame Butterfly’, ‘La Boheme’ and ‘Don Giovanni’ (New Decade Opera). 

Yolanda’s solo recital engagements include: mezzo soloist in ‘Missa Pastoril’ by Garcia-Nunes (Hertford); Sally in ‘A Hand of Bridge’ by Samuel Barber (Opera Holland Park); Songs on the Steps (Opera Holland Park); Elizabeth in premier of ‘Consider the Lilies’ by John Barber with soprano Elin Manahan Thomas (St Martin-in-the-Fields); Paco Peña’s ‘Requiem for the Earth’ with Paco Peña (Royal Festival Hall); Shirley J Thompson’s ‘The Woman Who Refused to Dance’ from Spirit of the Middle Passage with Philharmonic Orchestra (Queen Elizabeth Hall); ‘Maya Angelou Tribute Concert’ (Royal Festival Hall), and mezzo soloist in Verdi’s ‘Requiem’ with Redbridge Symphony Orchestra.