HAZEL NEIGHBOUR

HAZEL NEIGHBOUR

British-Irish soprano Hazel Neighbour joins the soloist ensemble of the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck for the 2025/26 season. Hazel is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. She has performed with companies such as Glyndebourne, Mid Wales Opera, and Grimeborn Festival, and is an alumna of British Youth Opera, Dartington International Festival, and the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien.

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  • "Hazel Neighbour’s sinuous sound added complexity to L’Ensoleillad, the glamorous ballerina who also falls for Chérubin’s charms."

    Opera Magazine - Yehuda Shapiro

  • "Hazel Neighbour’s L’Ensoleillad also had the vocal allure and colour to really make something of this role – particularly in the upper-reaches of the role where she was bewitching and beguiling in equal measure."

    Classical Source - Alexander Campbell

  • "Hazel Neighbour spun a graphically defined line as a cheeky Cupid"

    Opera Magazine - Yehuda Shapiro

  • "The British-Irish soprano Hazel Neighbour gives a fiery performance as the Empress Ottavia who, even when she sees the writing on the wall, fights hard to retain her position."

    Broadway World - Franco Milazzo

  • "Hazel Neighbour (Malinka) sfoggia voce potente e drammatica."

    Hazel Neighbour shows off a powerful and dramatic voice

    OperaTeatro - Raffaello Malesci

  • „Hazel Neighbour (Malinka, Etherea, Kunka) glänzt mit nuancenreichem, dramatisch geführtem Sopran.“

    Hazel Neighbour shines with a nuanced, dramatically-led soprano

    Schoepfblog - Thomas Nußbaumer

  • „Ebenso begeistern Hazel Neighbour mit ihrem wunderschönen Sopran.“

    Hazel Neighbour also enchants with her beautiful soprano

    Tiroler Tageszeitung - Wolfgang Otter

  • „Auch die gesanglichen Leistungen waren überzeugend, allen voran die von Florian Stern als Brouček. Ebensolches ließ sich auch etwa über Hazel Neighbour sagen, die sowohl die Malinka in der Prager Realität überzeugend auf die Bühne brachte als auch die verhuschte Etherea am Mond gut in Szene setzte„

    "The vocal performances were also convincing, especially that of Florian Stern as Brouček. The same could be said of Hazel Neighbour, who convincingly portrayed Malinka in the Prague reality on stage and also staged the flighty Etherea on the moon well."

    Salzburger Nachrichten - Markus Stegmayr