Helen Astrid's sultry tones of steel and silk make her one of the UK's most versatile and original sopranos of today.

She was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where she began her musical training. While studying at the Academy she was presented to Diana, Princess of Wales to receive awards for her achievements in singing and musicianship.

Helen went on to make her debut with English National Opera in the role of Lila in Fennimore and Gerda conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. Various roles have included engagements with Contemporary Opera Studio and Baylis Programme (in collaboration with ENO), Batignano Festival, Opera Factory, Garsington and several appearances with Chelsea Opera group at the QEH including Daphne conducted by Normal del Mar.

She appeared in Phantom of the Opera, L’enfant et les Sortileges, and in the British premiere of Strauss’s Die Aegyptische Helene at Garsington, for which she received outstanding international reviews.

On the contemporary cicuit, she's worked on Turnage’s The Silver Tassie at English National Opera, appearances at Theatre National in Rubaix with London City Opera and Soprano soloist with Opera Lab where she returned for the 2000 Season.

Other performances include the world premiere of The Murder of Charlotte Dymond by Russel Pascoe, Postcards from Andalucia at BAC, Theodora in The Judgement of Theodora at ENO Studio and Society Lady in Mary Seacole at The Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House Covent Garden & Drill Hall Manchester. Recently she sang soprano solo in ‘Gloria’ by Paul Rhys at Reading University.

She was chosen to represent the UK in International Contemporary Opera Singers Competition New York, for which she received private sponsorship.