British-Spanish mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons’s previous roles for The Royal Opera include Linda (Turnage’s Festen, world premiere) Siébel (Faust) and Hel (The Monstrous Child, world premiere). Engagements elsewhere have included Marta (Coll’s Enemigo del Pueblo) for Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía and Teatro Real, Madrid, Vlasta (The Passenger) in Madrid, Jennie Hildebrand (Street Scene) for Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Eurydice Woman (The Mask of Orpheus) for English National Opera, Amando (Le Grand Macabre) for the Elbphilharmonie, Marta (Anna, world premiere) for The Grange Festival, Matriosha (War and Peace) and First Maid (Elektra) for Grand Théâtre de Genève, Jacquet (The Wreckers), Second Lady (The Magic Flute) and Lapak (The Cunning Little Vixen) for the Glyndebourne Festival and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) for Garsington Opera and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Concert engagements include Verdi’s Requiem (Philharmonia), Gavin Higgins’s The Faerie Bride (world premiere, BBC NOW), Elgar’s Sea Pictures and Handel’s Messiah (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) and Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music (Last Night of the BBC Proms).