Rosina Gill-Wagner

Rosina is 16 years old, and a pupil at Downe House School, where she is currently studying for thirteen GCSEs. She is an enthusiastic performer with passions for ballet, jazz singing and musical theatre, and has recently joined the Musical Youth Company, Oxford where they are preparing for an upcoming performance of Chitty, chitty bang bang at the Oxford Playhouse. Rosi has participated in many productions of musicals, ballets and operas in the past. Highlights have included Little Shop of Horrors, Matilda, Joseph, Calamity Jane, Bugsy Malone, and the role of Alice in The Addams Family. This year she is to play the role of the Lilac Fairy Queen in the South Oxford Dance Academy Christmas production of Sleeping Beauty.

Rosi has also appeared in several opera productions, and this is a return visit to Opera Anywhere where she has previously appeared as Gracey Truelove in Hansel and Gretel and The Child in Suor Angelica. She played Sorrow in Madama Butterfly with Heritage Opera at the Buxton Opera House and has been in the ensemble for Carmen, La Boheme and Tosca with Oxford Opera where she is a member of the youth chorus.

Alongside performing, Rosina has a keen interest in art history and takes part in a wide range of academic and co-curricular clubs at school. She is currently President of the Junior Phoenix Society and holds the Modern Foreign Languages Prize at Downe House.