MARGARET PREECE trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and is now an internationally known, opera and musical theatre singer and actor, with a vast and versatile portfolio, having performed leading roles for all the major opera companies in the UK as well as various international companies. These roles range from Wagner to Mozart, Donizetti to Lehar, Verdi to Kurt Weill and Monteverdi to George Gershwin, working with conductors and directors of international acclaim.

She starred in London’s West End - as the diva, Carlotta, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning The Phantom of the Opera, at Her Majesty’s Theatre and was then asked to return to Carlotta to sing the entire role for Minnie Driver in Joel Schumacher’s film version of the musical, in which she also played and sang the role of The Confidante. Margaret performed The Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music at The London Palladium over nearly two years, followed by the national tour, and has since reprised the role in various other productions, in Cairo, Jordan and Dubai. She made her straight acting debut as Jean in the UK tour of Victoria Wood’s Dinner Ladies – Second Helpings for Comedy Productions Ltd. and was chosen by the legendary Sir Peter Hall to be in the cast of his exciting production at The Royal National Theatre and Epidaurus in his production of Bacchai.

In recent years, she has performed in several seasons with Pitlochry Festival Theatre playing a variety of diverse roles, including the glorious Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs Flint in Noel Coward’s This Happy Breed, (also in Guildford), Marion in Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular, and Archdeacon June in Alan Bennett’s People. She then played Eleanor Roosevelt in a wonderfully witty new musical play, Melania, by Brooks and King, in Glasgow, and the flirtatious Mrs McGee in Gerald Moon’s comedy thriller, Corpse for Vienna’s English Theatre. She toured China with an American production of My Fair Lady playing Mrs Higgins, with Big League Productions and made her pantomime debut as The Empress in Aladdin in Tewkesbury. Margaret then donned her habit again, this time in Germany with English Theatre Frankfurt, where she played Mother Superior in a new production of the Alan Menken musical, Sister Act!

Margaret is also an experienced cabaret, concert and recording artist and released an album called Isn’t It Romantic? celebrating the music of Richard Rodgers, which was first performed as a cabaret at the Metropolitan Room, New York.