About

Scottish soprano, Davidona Pittock is a graduate from The Royal College of Music with a Masters in Vocal Performance and holds a Bachelor of Music from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Davidona currently resides in Vienna, engaged as a First Soprano with The Wiener Staatsoper Opera Chorus.

In May 2023, Davidona will make her solo debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as Soeur Felicité in the premiere of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites; continuing on from the Staatsoper’s April production of Wagner’s Parsifal, where Davidona covered the role of 2. Blumenmädchen/1. Gruppe. In autumn 2023, she will continue her solo engagements at the Staatsoper in the roles of Soeur Osmina and Una Novizia in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.

Upon graduating in 2018, Davidona made her professional debut as Annina in Westminster Opera Company's 10th Anniversary production of Verdi's La Traviata where she also had the opportunity to step in at the last minute to cover the role of Violetta. In July 2019, Davidona returned for a second year as an Emerging Artist with Westminster Opera Company in the role of Musetta La Bohème; a role which she reprised in March 2020 with Oxford Opera Company alongside Huw Montague-Rendall. Other solo engagements in London include Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro with St. Paul’s Opera and performances of Scottish traditional music as part of Robert Burns’ birthday festivities most notably at Claridges in January 2023. She is a London Festival Opera Artist and was a competitor in The 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition. As part of the Erasmus+ scheme, Davidona was awarded a grant to study for a year at The Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland; where she debuted in the world premiere of Kalevi Aho’s opera Frida y Diego and recorded her debut album of Scottish traditional song: A Handful of Scots Song alongside Michael Ferrie.

Her repertoire coaches have included Roger Vignoles, Rosa Mannion and Simon Lepper. Davidona was a Sir Gordon Palmer Scholar, a Josephine Baker Scholar, and her studies were supported by The Simon Fletcher Trust and The Caird Trust.