“the superb Victoria Simmonds” 

  Richard Morrison, The Times

Victoria is delighted to have just been (belatedly) awarded the 2008 Dame Hilda Brackett Award (for a comedy performance in an opera at Sadlers Wells) for her role as Pinocchio in Jonathan Dove's "The Adventures of Pinocchio" for Opera North. 

She is looking forward to starting work on Sevastopol: an OperaShot for ROH2 in a few weeks time, written by Neil Hannon, the man behind the band "The Divine Comedy".

During 2012/13 Victoria will be touring a self-devised homage to Kathleen Ferrier, entitled "With much love, the music and letters of Kathleen Ferrier"

She has also just been asked to sing Phoebe in "The Yeomen of the Guard" at the Proms on 19th August this year.

Meanwhile, she will begin rehearsals soon on the long awaited world premiere of "Written on Skin" by George Benjamin, which kicks off its european tour at the Aix Festival in July this year.  Over the following 18 months there will be subsequent performances at the Netherlands Opera, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera Comique Paris, the Wiener Festwochen, the Bavarian State Opera Munich, Toulouse and Florence's Maggio Musicale.

“Victoria Simmonds is a voluptuously feisty Rosina” 

Tim Ashley – The Guardian