Ellen Pearson

mezzo-soprano
Biography
British mezzo-soprano Ellen Pearson will join the Jette Parker Artists Programme at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from the start of the 2025 /2026 season. 

A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music (First-Class Honours), and the Royal College of Music (Master’s of Music with Distinction), she is an Opera Prelude Artist, an artist on the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange programme, an Oxford International Song Young Artist 2024/2026, a Samling Artist, a Shipston Song Rising Star and a Britten Pears Young Artist.

Her Awards include the Loveday Song Prize at the 2025 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, The Nigel Beale First Prize and Anthony Lowrey Audience Prize at the 2024 Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year and First Prize and Best Duo Prize with Archie Bonham at the 2024 Ashburnham English Song Competition.

She is a former 2023/24 Opera Holland Park Young Artist, where she sang Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia, and joins the 2025 Verbier Festival to sing La Ciesca Gianni Schicchi.

During her first season at The Royal Opera House, she will sing Second Lady Die Zauberflöte and Flora Bervoix La traviata on the Main Stage, as well as Irina in Elena Langer’s Four Sisters and Julia in Elizabeth Maconchy’s The Departure in The Linbury Theatre.


Programme
18 July 2025 10:00
masterclass
GARNON / MASTERCLASS SONG - TEXT & INTERPRETATION
19 July 2025 10:00
masterclass
GARNON / MASTERCLASS SONG - TEXT & INTERPRETATION
20 July 2025 14:30
masterclass
APPL / MASTERCLASS LIED
24 July 2025 18:30
opera
PUCCINI - Gianni Schicchi / MASCAGNI - Cavalleria Rusticana

Verbier Festival
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