Originally from West Wales, Beca is a mezzo-soprano and creative collaborator whose work spans opera, new music theatre and storytelling.
She is particularly passionate about bringing new work to life, having created roles for numerous world premieres, including Inevitable by Carmel Smickersgill and Josh Overton for Buxton International Festival, Bwci Be?! by Claire Victoria Roberts and Gwyneth Glyn/Patrick Young, Cyfrinach y Brenin by Mared Emlyn for Opra Cymru, the title role in Helena by Marco Galvani at London’s Cockpit Theatre, and The Ghost Train for St Magnus International Festival.
A former Associate Artist with Welsh National Opera (2023–24), Beca made her company debut in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar and has since appeared as the Beggar Woman in Death in Venice and Conversa Seconda in Suor Angelica. Her work with WNO has also included performances as mezzo-soprano soloist in its Viennese Concerts, touring Schools Concerts, and Carmen: Come and Sing workshops at the Hay Festival. During her Associate Artist year, she curated and performed recital programmes featuring her own arrangements of Welsh folk songs. This year, she returns to WNO as Captain Meredith in Play Opera LIVE: Shipwrecked and as cover Branwen in Blaze of Glory.
Alongside her performing career, Beca is an enthusiastic collaborator in the development of new music-theatre projects. As a writer and librettist, she recently worked with composer Sarah Lianne Lewis on G - - - - - -, a new micro-opera created through Ty Cerdd’s CoDi 24/25 scheme in association with Music Theatre Wales. She also wrote the script for The Secret City, a family concert piece for Brixton Chamber Orchestra at the Brixton Windmill & Education Centre that combined orchestral music with live narration and storytelling.
Beca studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Mandy McCormack and King’s College London, where she graduated with First Class Honours in Music.