Paula studied at the Royal College of Music, where she received the Tagor Gold Medal, presented to her by HRH King Charles III. In 2024 she recorded Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine & Fiançailles pour rire with pianist Sergey Rybin on the Voces8 Record Label, and Summer 2026 sees the release of their new album Of Love and Transience, songs by Viktor Ullmann, Berg, Korngold and Strauss.  

 

In 2025, Paula performed Hannah Glawari The Merry Widow with Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park. Other roles include Cunegonde Candide for Scottish Opera; Tsaritsa of Shemakha The Golden Cockerel, Lucrezia Lucrezia Borgia, Mimì La bohème, Tosca Tosca, Lauretta Gianni Schicchi, Elettra Idomeneo, Pamina The Magic Flute, Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, Despina Così fan tutte, Agrippina Agrippina, Calisto La Calisto, Poppea L’incoronazione di Poppea for English Touring Opera; Donna Anna Don Giovanni for Longborough Festival Opera; Eurydice Orphée et Eurydice for IN Series Opera, Washington D.C.; Norina Don Pasquale, Gilda Rigoletto, Musetta La bohème for Preggio Opera Festival, Italy; Giulietta Un giorno di regno & Thaïs Thaïs for Chelsea Opera Group; Emilia Flavio, Atalanta Serse, Clizia Teseo, Atalanta Atalanta for the London Handel Festival; and Eleonora L’assedio di Calais in the Armel Opera Festival, Budapest.

 

Concert highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 7 Antarctica with the Stavanger Symfonikor in Finland & with the Opera North Orchestra in the UK with Richard Farnes, Mahler 8 with David Hill and the Opera North Symphony Orchestra, Mahler 2, Strauss Four Last Songs, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Mass in C, Dvořák Te Deum, and Britten’s War Requiem with the Southampton Philharmonic and London Mozart Players.

 

2026 sees Paula singing Nedda Pagliacci for English Touring Opera and a revival of Hannah Glawari The Merry Widow for the Buxton International Festival in Summer 2026.

 

Paula was born in Tennessee, and has long since made the UK her home. As well as being a performer on the stage, she is a passionate singing teacher, with experience working for the NHS Voice Clinic, teaching both professional singers and the girl choristers at St Albans Cathedral. Paula also wrote an opera libretto for a children’s opera, Handel’s ‘Aidan’ which was premiered for ETO in Spring 2021.