Since understudying I Fagiolini’s immersive theatre production Betrayal in 2015, Elspeth Piggott has been captured by and pursued the dual art forms of music and drama.She has played Sophie in the staged Bach St Matthew/ Sophie Scholl Passion, (Ross McGregor with the Deutscher Chor London, Southwark Cathedral 2022); Sirena in Francesca Caccini’s opera La Liberazione di Ruggiero,  (BREMF, 2021); Cupid in Marco da Gagliano’s Daphne, (BREMF) 2020; and understudying Charlie in Anna Appleby’s Drought with the BBC Philharmonic 2022. Most recently, she has been Second Woman to Mary Bevan’s Dido in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas  at Den Ny Opera Festival 2023. Elspeth is also a soloist in the baroque repertoire, having performed at  festivals and venues including  St John Passion, Cumbria Opera Group 2023; Bach Lutheran Mass in F, Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque 2022; Bach Cantata BWV51, The Hampstead Collective 2020;  The Messiah, Snape Maltings 2017; MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross, The Britten Sinfonia, The Barbican 2016. This year she will be appearing as a soloist in Mozart’s Great Mass with the University Choir at York Minster.