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Biography
Darwin was born and brought up in London. Her mother is an English teacher, and her father was a lawyer in the Foreign Office.
Darwin studied chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge. After briefly working as a teacher and a journalist she attended the Royal Northern College of Music where she received a Master of Music degree. She subsequently earned a scholarship to study at the Banff Centre for the Arts and is currently studying for a PhD at Sheffield University.
Performances
Darwin's opera performances include the Countess (The Marriage of Figaro), Berta (The Barber of Seville), Pat Nixon (Nixon in China), the Governess (The Turn of the Screw) and Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), as well as Mimi (La Bohème) Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), and Michaela (Carmen). In March 2007, she was the vocal soloist for Celebration for Elizabeth (a centenary tribute to the composer Elizabeth Maconchy) at the Purcell Room. Other concert experience includes Beethoven Mass in C, Mozart Requiem, Mahler Symphony No 4, Poulenc Stabat Mater and Fanshawe African Sanctus and recitals throughout Britain.
As well as classical opera and recital work she has performed her own multi-media creation "The Vienna Show: Music and Gender in the Viennese Fin-de-siècle", based on research for a PhD in Music that she is currently completing at the University of Sheffield.