Pamela Helen Stephen was a mezzo-soprano who by 2000 had established a national career in opera houses of her native Britain.
She attended college at Aberdeen, Scotland, and then earned her bachelor's degree in musical performance in 1986 from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She pursued post-graduate studies, obtaining certificates in opera and in the field of Lieder and oratorio singing.
At the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama she appeared in the roles of Ziti in Gianni Schicchi, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Madam Knorr and Mrs. Fischer in t...