- Dialogues des Carmélites – Mother Geraldine
Nina Bennet Mother Geraldine spent the first twenty years of her career performing around the world with choral groups such as the Academy of Ancient Music, Britten Sinfonia Voices, and the BBC Singers, before developing a much larger voice.
Her recent concert work includes Verdi’s Requiem in Eberbach Abbey, Germany, Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Romsey Abbey, Britten’s War Requiem in Haileybury College, Tippett’s Child of Our Time in Cadogan Hall, London, Britten’s Spring Symphony in Canterbury Cathedral, Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn in Staatstheater, Darmstadt and Howell’s Hymnus Paradisi in Bristol Beacon.
Equally at home in gospel and jazz, Nina has performed Will Todd’s Mass in Blue and Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts numerous times, including with the Will Todd Trio
In 2024, she made her Strauss Four Last Songs debut in Germany with the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, and returned two months later for three performances of Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 8.
Nina has made her first forays into the more dramatic opera works with the parts of Helmwige, Ortlinde and Gerhilde in Wagner’s Die Walküre for the London Opera Company, Lia in an adaptation of Debussy’s L’enfant Prodigue for the Grimeborn Festival, Kathy in Her Day for Coventry’s City of Culture Festival, and Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Surrey Opera at the Minack Theatre.