The concert career of the Canadian-bornsoprano Gillian Keith, winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2000, has taken her across Europe and North America in a repertoire ranging from Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Passions to Mahler’sSymphony No. 8 and Orff’s Carmina burana. In the opera house she has appeared as Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden and in Oviedo, Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) at Theater Basel and at the Boston Early Music Festival, Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at the Linbury Theatre of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden‚ Nannetta (Falstaff), Pretty Polly (Punch and Judy) and soprano solos in King Arthur and a staging of Bach’s St John Passion at English National Opera‚ King Arthur also at San Francisco Opera‚ Diana (Stuart MacRae’s The Assassin Tree) for the ROH2 programme and at the Edinburgh International Festival‚ Iole (Hercules) and Silvia (Ascanio in Alba) at the Buxton Festival‚ Woodbird (Siegfried), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice) at Scottish Opera‚ Diana (Calisto) with the Toronto Consort‚ Elmira (Croesus) at Opera North‚ Tiny (Paul Bunyan) at the Bregenz Festival‚ Ginevra (Ariodante) in Halle, Lucinda (Don Chisciotte) with De Nederlandse Opera, and in performances of the Florentiner Intermedien in Saarbrücken.