Helen Massey

Helen Massey is an English soprano opera singer. She provided the vocals for Jemima (played by Veerle Casteleyn) in the 1998 Cats film.

Biography (2012)
Originally from Cheshire, Helen Massey moved to London in 1998 to study at the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music. While at the RCM Helen won the Peter Pears Duo and English Song prizes. She was also the soprano soloist in concerts at the RCM and Kings College, Cambridge for Sir David Wilcocks, and played the role of Emmie in Sir Thomas Allen's directorial debut production of Benjamin Britten's, Albert Herring. Helen went on to further study with Dennis O'Neill at his Cardiff International Academy of Voice, finishing in December last year.

Recent concert appearances include Haydn's St. Nicholas Mass and Beatus Vir by J. C. Bach in Glasgow Cathedral, Handel's Messiah in Truro Cathedral, Mozart's Exultate Jubilate in Grantham and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana at Eton College. She has also performed with CIAV in opera galas at Llandaff Cathedral, the National Assembly for Wales and in Barga, Italy, with the Academy.

Helen's operatic engagements have included Blonde in Die Entführung, Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, Flaminia in Haydn's Il Mondo della Luna, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Sofia in Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino, Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff, and most recently as Frasquita and Tytania in Bizet’s Carmen and Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Longborough Festival. She also played Adele in Opera della Luna's acclaimed production of Die Fledermaus.

Trivia

 * Helen won the BBC Radio 2 Choirgirl of the Year competition in 1996