Shelley Everall Hoban - Soprano

Shelley’s operatic debut was as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Aldeburgh.

She sang Brünnhilde in Act 3 of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, conducted by Anthony Legge for the Mastersingers Opera Company.  The role of Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer for Cambridge University Opera Society. Other Wagner roles include Woglinde in Das Rheingold and Sieglinde in Die Walküre. She covered Freia in Das Rheingold and third Norn in  Götterdämmerung for Oper Frankfurt.

She performed the title role of Guenever for the premiere recording by BBC Radio 3 ‘Composer of the week’ of Parry’s Wagnerian style opera, orchestrated by Jeremy Dibble. Performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Barry Wordsworth. 

Shelley has been a professional chorister with Opera North, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Oper Frankfurt, and the Bayreuther Festspiele. She made her American debut with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra performing the Strauss Vier Lezte Lieder and the Wagner Wesendonck Lieder, conducted by the celebrated American conductor John Nelson.

Shelley’s oratorio engagements include Verdi Requiem from Scratch at the Royal Albert Hall London conducted by Sir David Willcocks, also at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Canterbury Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, Snape Maltings Concert Hall Aldeburgh. Cheltenham Town Hall, Edinburgh's Usher Hall et al. Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at St Paul’s Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Snape Maltings Concert Hall Aldeburgh. Ilkley and Otley Choral Society and the Cumbrian Rural choirs, conducted by Sir Philip Ledger, Sands Centre Carlisle.

Shelley performed the Janacek Mass in E flat and Puccini Salve Regina in St John’s Smith Square and on tour with the choir of Gonville and Ciaus College Cambridge, conducted by Geoffrey Webber, available on the ASV label as a world premiere recording. Mahler’s 8th Symphony in the Usher Hall with Edinburgh Bach choir and Edinburgh Choral Union, conducted by Neil Mantle.

Shelley’s wide repertoire includes Britten’s War Requiem at Canterbury Cathedral and the Snape Maltings Aldeburgh. Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Rossini Stabat Mater in Winchester Cathedral. Mendelssohn’s Elijah with George Badacsonyi at the Vigadó Concert Hall Budapest. Mozart Requiem in the  De Montfort Hall Leicester, with Leicester Philharmonic choir and the Manchester Camerata conducted by Laslo Heltay.  Symanowski Stabat Mater and Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Beethoven 9th Symphony for Watford Philharmonic Society. Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem and Handel’s Messiah at Romsey Abbey. 

In her early career Shelley worked as a professional consort singer. Choirs include the  Royal College of Music Chamber Choir and London Bach choir with Sir David Willcocks. The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, The Hilliard Ensemble; Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the English Concert with Sir Roger Norrington. BBC Singers ad hoc. 

She has also been a full time chorister in a number of London churches, these include The London Oratory, St George’s Hanover Square, St Etheldreda's Ely Place and The Royal Hospital Chelsea.