Meet our Creative Team
Bronwen Harding
Founder, Director and Scriptwriter
Mezzo-soprano
At the age of eight, Bronwen declared her wish to be an opera singer. After a varied career, combining corporate marketing with busking, choral singing, opera performance and singing studies, she is now pursuing her dream full-time. After achieving a Diploma in Opera & Performance from Associated Studios in London and working in the UK and Europe, Bronwen founded Rogue Opera in 2018 with a vision of bringing opera to new audiences and unconventional spaces. As well as singing the title role in Rogue Opera’s inaugural season of Bizet’s Carmen, Bronwen directed the production and saw it performed in a variety of venues.
Working with a dedicated troupe of musicians and seeing her concepts come to life on the stage have been a high point in her musical career, which continued with the company’s second season, presenting a vibrant, contemporary reimagining of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in 2019, which Bronwen directed. In the second revival tour she also performed the role of Donna Elvira. The challenges presented by Covid-19 in 2020 have taken Bronwen and Rogue Opera into new ventures, broadcasting over 45 livestream performances and building an archive over 100 video performances of arias and ensembles, providing creative work for Rogue Opera artists and introducing new audiences to opera.
Delighted to be back to in-person events in 2021, Bronwen created, wrote the English libretto and directed a new production 'A Modern Opera Love Story' for Fuller’s Opera in the Garden. The association with Fuller's has continued with two further very successful summer tours, presenting an exciting and engaging gala program in a wide variety of pub gardens.
For the 2024 summer tour of Carmen Re-imagined, Bronwen wrote the English dialogue, directed and sang the title role of Carmen.
2025 sees the debut of Bronwen’s second Re-imagined work, in which she has set Mozart’s Così fan tutte in modern New York, where a desire for celebrity, status and money provides the background for the opera’s convoluted story of love, deceit and betrayal. In this production, Bronwen sings the role of Dorabella.
Blanca Graciá Rodríguez
Music Director 2026
Pianist
Spanish pianist Blanca Graciá Rodríguez has always been passionate about vocal repertoire, graduating with honours in Collaborative Piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerpen under the tutelage of Jeanne-Minette Cilliers. She was part of the 2023/24 Young Artist Programme at the National Opera Studio in London.
She is currently a Trainee Répétiteur for the English National Opera for the 2024/25 season and also part of the Young Artists scheme at Song Easel in London, further deepening her commitment to art song.
She has worked on numerous opera productions, including Ernani and Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, under the batons of Julia Jones and Marie Jacquot, respectively, as well as English National Opera’s Suor Angelica. She has collaborated with artists and conductors such as Julia Mintzer, Keith Warner, Karen Kamensek, Christopher Moulds, and Rory Macdonald.
Her passion for chamber music and art song has led her to perform at festivals including the Oxford Lieder Festival's Young Artist Programme and the Hidalgo Street Art Festival. She was a finalist in the II Certamen Internacional de Lied y Canción (Spain, 2018) and the Galantes Talanti Competition (Latvia, 2022), and received 3rd prize at the International Music Competition in France in 2022.
Bobbie-Jean Henning
Music Director 2026
Bobbie-Jean Henning(She/Her) is a writer/director working across stage and screen. Directing credits include staff director on Riders To The Sea (Opera UpClose - UK Tour), associate director for Carmen Reimagined (Rogue Opera - UK Tour) and assistant director on musicals Assassins (WAAPA) and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Watch This). She's directed new work including Unbelievable (Edinburgh Fringe), Schrodingers Lesbians (The Glitch), Udderly Fabulous (Adelaide Fringe), MidLife (Sydney Fringe) and Beyond The Break (Belvoir St Theatre).
She was the 2022 recipient of WAAPA's Professional Mentorship for Directing and directed the short film, You, Me & Him which has been shown at film festivals internationally.
As a writer her solo shows have toured Australia and her online comedy series The Power of The Dream was nominated for an AWGIE. She was a recipient of ABC's Fresh Start Fund, a Martin Lysicrates Playwright Finalist and shortlisted for Red Stitch's Fresh Ink Award.