Educated at McGill University, Montreal, and at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Stephanie has most recently gained international critical acclaim for her portrayal of Offred in Poul Ruder's The Handmaid's Tale, the opera based on Margaret Atwood's award winning novel.

Her operatic roles include the title role in the ENO production of The Handmaid's Tale, Wellgunde, (The Rhinegold), Sonya (War and Peace). She sang L'Enfant (L'Enfant et les sortilèges) in Maastricht, Meg Page (Falstaff) and Xerxes with BYO, and Nancy (Albert Herring) for Opera McGill. Stephanie has also understudied Cherubino, Xerxes, and Ariodante for ENO.

As a concert soloist Stephanie's work has included El amor brujo in De Falla's The Three Cornered Hat with the Hallé Orchestra, Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the English Chamber Orchestra, a series of performances of Handel arias with the Britten Sinfonia , and for the BBC Turnage's Twice Through the Heart, with the BCMG. As a recitalist she recently recorded for the CBC a programme of duets with Gillian Keith. She made her Wigmore Hall debut last September.

A prizewinner on several occasions at the RAM, she was the recipient of the Dip.RAM and The Queen's Commendation for Excellence in her final year. She was also the winner of the 2001 Kathleen Ferrier Award.

Stephanie is an ENO Young Artist and will be singing in next season's productions of War and Peace, Thaïs, The Twilight of the Gods, The Rhinegold and Carmen.

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"..a potent account of Turnage's keen melodrama Twice Through the Heart. Stephanie Marshall, a Canadian mezzo at the Academy, has a voice of individual and poignant timbre.

......her sound flowed freely, strongly, passionately, and purely. Her conception and embodiment of Turnage's dramatic sequence - eyes expressive, moves and stations eloquent while she sang the words - was stirring.

She's a singer who stirred me, one I look forward to hearing again."

Andrew Porter - Opera