Recent reviews of Helen as Dido in 'Dido and Aeneas' with Hampstead Garden Opera:

"there were good performances...above all, from Helen Bailey as a warm and secure Dido who delivered her lament in an interesting way - not as grand tragedy but as the pale, exhausted monologue of someone numbed by grief."
Michael White, Hamstead and Highgate Express / Catholic Herald, Dec 2009
“(filling the vacuum) was a wonderfully hysterical and ultimately touching villainess Vitellia, Helen Bailey"
The Clemency of Titus, Michael White, ‘The Ham and High’, 20th May 2010
'' HGO's cast was held up by the superb soprano Helen Bailey, who applied full, gritty lower range and wide-eyed dramatic sincerity to the salt-of-the-earth teenage Susannah'' 


Kate Molleson, Opera, July 2009 


'' the musical tour-de-force in the piece is Susannah's aria,'The Trees on the Mountains' which was sung with stunning grace and power by Helen Bailey...Bailey's performance took my breath away: she gave out the clarity of diction and conversational feel of a folk singer, while hitting the high notes and runs with plenty of operatically- trained power''.
David Karlin, Bachtrack, May 2009
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''a lovely young, clear-voiced but warm soprano, Helen Bailey, in the lead''.
Michael White, The Hamstead and Highgate Express (The Ham and High), May 2009
''Helen drew her audience into a diverse range of moods and feelings as exemplified during the aria 'Dove Sono'...Oliver Messiaen's 'Trois Melodies' was exquisitely executed...I could have listened to Helen singing all night. It is not often that such individual talent enters the doors of churches on Teesside''.
John Rhodes, review of recital given in St Mary Magdalene Church, Yarm on 23rd May 2009

''[the choir] continued to accompany Helen in her solo, her clear sound and diction easily heard over the choir's harmonies...Helen Bailey sang the 'Kyrie' most beautifully...'Now the guns have stopped' was sung by the soprano, her pure tone and clear diction expressing the grave meaning and giving pleasure to the listeners''
Review of Rutter's 'Mass of the Children' and Jenkins' 'The Armed Man' - The Lymington Times, 30th May 2009  

Article about Helen Bailey in the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette - click here to read full article

Archive - Article from Evening Gazette, 2004 - Music festival - click here to read full article