Rebecca de Pont Davies

Rebecca de Pont Davies is a British mezzo-soprano who has performed with English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, and at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, among others.

Davies was born and educated in Blackheath, and is the sister of the screenwriter William Davies and the television producer Michael Davies. She has been diagnosed with Graves' disease. Davies went straight from school to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she completed the four year Associate of the Guildhall School of Music (AGSM) course and the two year Opera Course for which she was awarded a full scholarship before becoming a Company Artist for English National Opera. Here her roles included Ottavia in The Coronation of Poppea, Ulrica in A Masked Ball, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff, Annina in Der Rosenkavalier, Theatre Dresser/Schoolboy/Groom/Girl’s Mother in Lulu, Mrs Sedley and Auntie in Peter Grimes, Bronka in The Passenger, Marya in War and Peace and Ruth in the Mike Leigh production of The Pirates of Penzance.