This season, Helen makes her debut at Dutch National Opera in the world premiere of Michel van der Aa’s Theory of Flames in the role of Marianne. On the concert platform she sings the title role in Solomon with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mozart Requiem at Casa da Musica under Andreas Spering and also the Czech Philharmonic under Giovanni Antonini, Bach B minor mass with De Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Richard Egarr, and Bach St Matthew Passion with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under Laurence Cummings. Helen returns to the BBC Proms for Haydn’s Nelson Mass, and also with the BBC Symphony Orchestra she performs their last ever live broadcast from Maida Vale Studios, conducted by Sakari Oramo. In recital she collaborates with the Consone Quartet at the Brighton Early Music Festival and also at Oxford Song, with Sholto Kynoch at the Wimbledon Festival and the National Centre for Early Music amongst other venues, with Roman Rabinovich in Canada, and she performs an ensemble programme at Fundación Juan March in Madrid.

Recent opera appearances have included her debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu as Sesto in Calixto Bieito’s production of Giulio Cesare conducted by William Christie, her debut at Versailles Royal Opera singing Dido in Purcell Dido & Aeneas, at Grange Festival singing Sorceress/Spirit in the same opera, and she covered the title role in Charpentier Médée at Opéra national de Paris. She has also toured two semi-staged productions with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie singing Dido and Rosmira in Handel Partenope across France and Canada.

 Further appearances on the concert platform include premieres of a new song cycle written for her as a companion piece to Schumann Dichterliebe by Héloïse Werner at the Oxford International Song Festival and Wigmore Hall, Bach B minor mass with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Richard Egarr, Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the BBC Proms with Maxim Emelyanychev, Britten’s Phaedra live in concert with BBC Philharmonic, Handel’s Messiah with the Warsaw Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, and The Academy of St Martin in the Fields at the Proms, Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus with the RIAS Kammerchor at the Berlin Philharmonie with Justin Doyle, and also Bach’s Magnificat in South Korea, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with WDR Köln under Simon Halsey, Elgar Sea Pictures and Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with BBC Symphony, and Irene in Handel Theodora with the Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco.