Nina Copperfield Professional, full-time opera singer available for your private event!

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The guide prices below are for events within 20 miles of Central London. Outside this area extra travel expenses will apply. Please get in touch for an accurate quote.
Wedding service:
Solo: from £225
Duo with piano: from £325
If the pianist will need to bring the keyboard, a £30 porterage charge is added
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About / Biography

Nina Copperfield is a London-based opera singer and recitalist. In the 2015-16 season, Nina has sung the roles of The Queen of the Night (Magic Flute), Olympia (Tales of Hoffmann), Fiordiligi (Cosi fan Tutte), Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring) and The Governess (The Turn of the Screw).

Roles in the 2016-17 season: Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), Fiordiligi (Cosi fan Tutte), The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos) Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Marianne (Der Rosenkavalier).

Nina has worked for many corporate events and weddings in both London and Scotland and can be booked either as a solo singer (if a pianist or string ensemble has been booked separately), with piano accompaniment or with string ensemble accompaniment (Trio or quartet).

For Corporate functions, Nina has a huge repertoire of opera and operetta to choose between - please contact her with your requirements and Nina would be happy to choose repertoire to suit.

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Location

Based in Central London

Will travel up to 100 miles
green circle = areas covered (up to 100 miles)
pink circle = free travel (up to 20 miles)
Please note that the circles shown on the map are calculated "as the crow flies". By road distances may vary, so please get in touch for an accurate quote.

Non religious arias: for civil and humanist weddings:

Chi il bel Sogno di Doretta Puccini

Con te partiro (Time to say goodbye)

Deh vieni, non tardar: Mozart

I dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls: Balfe

In Trutina (Carmina Burana) Orff

Nella Fantasia: Morricone

O mio babbino caro: Puccini

O, my love is like a red, red rose: Burns

Tornami a vagheggiar: Handel

Religious (classical)

Alleluia (Exsultate, Jubilate): Mozart

Alleluia (Nulla in Mundo pax sincera): Vivaldi

Ave Maria Bach/Gounod

Ave Maria: Michal Lorenc

Ave Maria (Intermezzo): Mascagni

Ave Maria: Schubert

Panis Angelicus: Cesar Franck

Salve Regina: Puccini

Benedictus (Kleine Orgelmesse) Haydn

I know that my redeemer liveth (Messiah): Handel

Laudate Dominum Mozart

Let the bright Seraphim: Handel

Rejoice Greatly (Messiah) Handel

Nina is also happy to sing any hymns that you may require.

Technical Info

What are your basic technical requirements?

If booked as soloist: for smaller venues: no technical requirements, but if booked to sing for a very large event in a huge, open space Nina may need amplification.
If booked together with her pianist, she needs a piano being available at the venue.
If booked as a soloist with backing tracks, Nina has a small speaker that she can bring, which is suitable for singing without a microphone, and sufficient for a small to medium sized room.


Do you provide sound and lighting equipment?

Only a small speaker for backing tracks (if booked to sing with tracks), suitable for singing with without a microphone for smaller gatherings.


What information do you require about a venue?

1) If booked to sing with my pianist, we need to know if there is a piano available at the venue.
2) the exact address and post code of the venue - I don't need parking as I always travel by public transport.


Can you provide a Spotify/DJ service before and between your sets?

No

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best gig you've ever done and the best venue you've ever played at?

Best Opera performance: Several! 1) a production of the Marriage of Figaro in a castle in Ireland, where each scene took place in a different room, finishing in the gardens for the finale of act 4; a UK tour of a 3 person opera, which took us to venues from pub theatres to large concert halls - each venue needed slight adaptations of the staging, I loved adapting the production to each venue.
Best corporate gig: Chivas Royal Salute, several product launches in fabulous venues throughout Scotland
Best recital: Private recitals in castles, a recital onboard Saga Sapphire, music societies around the UK.
Best Debut: my actual professional singing debut was in 2009 on tour in Bolivia with a chamber orchestra(as a viola player).I had to jump in as a singer as the soprano got ill last minute: I sang for several hundred people in a stunning church in the Bolivian Jungle, after not having sung as a teenager. This changed my life: I decided then to start taking lessons again, and here I am


Which artists have you been most influenced by, who is your favourite artist and what is the greatest song of all time?

The first opera I ever heard was the Magic Flute: first the Bergman production on TV and then a production that I was taken to as a choral scholar. I loved opera ever since, and especially the Magic Flute: I'm very lucky to now have the Queen of the Night as one of my most performed roles. As for artists I respect: Two sopranos who sang the Queen of the Night incredibly well are Diana Damrau and Edita Gruberova; for singers outside my voice type - Joyce di Donato is incredible as well.


What's your previous experience and how did you start gigging?

I've sung since I was tiny, I went to a specialist music school as a choral scholar, but I then became a viola player: I did my degrees as a viola player and freelanced for many years, until 2009, when I had my singing debut in the Bolivian jungle. After that, I started re-training as a singer, and I had my UK singing debut in 2011, and I sang my first operatic role in 2012 (Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro). Since then, I've steadily built up my singing career, and I'm now working as a recitalist, concert singer and opera singer, as well as singing for weddings, funerals and corporate events. I've performed throughout the UK, as well as in Italy, Germany, Ireland, Bolivia, Brazil and Sweden.


What's your favourite type of event to play at?

Aside from my concert work, I do love to sing for wedding ceremonies: every time I sing at a wedding, I always enjoy contributing to the day, singing beautiful music, especially chosen by the couple, for their special day.

Performance Info

What are your typical setup and performance times?

Set up: Solo: no setup, but 30 minutes available to rehearse with the organist, pianist or ensemble that she will be singing with; for a large event a soundcheck may be needed to check the levels: add 5 minutes
With pianist and there is a piano at the venue: 5 minutes setup time needed.
If the pianist needs to bring his digital piano: 20 minutes setup max.


Are you happy to perform outside?

It depends on the situation:
If it's in a walled garden for instance, I will still be heard without amplification as the sound can bounce off the walls: if so, that's absolutely fine.
However, if it's in a huge open space with no walls that the sound can bounce off, amplification ay be needed. If there is amplification already in place, then I'd be happy to; otherwise, I'm happy to try, but there is a risk that the sound may not reach everyone in the audience.


Do the clients have a say in what you play or is it a set repertoire list only?

The clients always have a say in what I sing: I always work closely with the clients to make sure that they get the songs that they would love to hear for their ceremony/event. I only ask the clients to keep in mind before booking that I'm a classical soprano, so, if there is anything far outside classical/crossover/legit MT that they have their heart set on including, it may not sound quite as expected if I sing it. I'm always happy to talk through repertoire choices before booking, so that they are happy with the selection before confirming.


How do previous clients most commonly describe your performances?

I've always been getting the feedback on my operatic performances and recitals, that I really tell the story of the piece well, that I convey the message of the words with the tone colours of my voice and my facial expressions.
I also usually get some "voice of an angel", "beautiful voice" comments. Outside the performing, I also usually get told that I'm a calm presence to have around on the day: I don't easily get stressed and am happy to work with everyone involved, to make sure that everything runs smoothly.


Are you happy to work with a church organist that comes with the venue, or a string quartet that is booked separately?

Yes of course! I'm happy to work with any ensemble that is booked for the event. If so, just book me as a soloist and let me know who I'm singing with.
All I'd need then, is the name of the contact person for the ensemble and their contact info, so that we can co-ordinate the repertoire, so that we can make sure that we are singing from the same hymn sheet, as it were!

Recent Clients

Nina Copperfield has performed for these clients:

(always through other organisers, but I have worked for, through others in 2024:

IKEA - yearly since 2016

Pret a Manger

Faber Publishing

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Pre lockdown highlight:

Chivas Royal Salute (Several venues)

Venues

Nina Copperfield has performed at these venues:

Harrow Summer Music Festival (regular, yearly since 2015)

Saga Sapphire

Schubert institute

St James, Piccadilly

Opera in the City Festival

Austrian Cultural Forum

Kenton theatre, Henley on Thames

Rose Playhouse, Southwark

Normansfield Theatre, Teddington

Summerhill Recital Series, Stanmore

St Mary the Virgin and All Saints, Potters Bar

St Mary's Watford

Moffat Music Society

Old Joint Stock, Birmingham

Albany Theatre, Coventry

St James, Islington,

St Mary's Putney

St Cuthbert's North Wembley

St Augustine's Hammersmith

St Andrews, Muswell Hill

Kentwell Hall, Sudbury

St Bee's Priory Church, Cumbria

West Lakes Hotel, Cumbria

Waldegrave Room, St Mary's Uni, Twickenham

St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow

Greenock Town Hall

St Nicholas Parish Church, Prestwick

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford

Holy Trinity, Isle of Sheppey

The Place, Bedford

Shelley Theatre, Bournemouth

Rosslea Hall Hotel, Helensburgh

Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh

St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh

Brig o'Doon Hotel, Ayrshire

Crossbasket House, Blantyre

Seamill Hydro, North Ayrshire

Piersland House Hotel, Troon

Lochside House Hotel

St Alberts Chaplaincy Edinburgh

Holy Family Church, Port Glasgow

Glenbervie House Hotel

St Andrews in the Square, Glasgow

Paisley Town Hall

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