Deborah Miles-Johnson has worked with leading conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, performing Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles, Sir Georg Solti in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Sir Antonio Pappano in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger at Covent Garden. Her commercial recordings include The Beggars Opera, Puccini’s Suor Angelica and the rôle of Carmen with Gerald Finley on his recital disc. She performed Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the English Concert in Europe, Istanbul and Japan, and broadcasts regularly for the BBC, including works by Joubert and Crosse, as well as Handel’s Il Parnasso in Festa. In contemporary repertoire she sang Carolina in Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers, the première of Brian Elias’s Laments with the BBCSO, Barraqué’s …au-delà du hasard with Klangforum in Vienna, Satyagraha by Philip Glass at the Festival Hall and one of the secretaries in the first London performance of Nixon in China by Adams with the London Symphony Orchestra.