Supported by donors to our Sustaining Success Appeal and by Karen and Lee McLernon
British mezzo-soprano Laura Fleur is a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio.
Laura is a 2019 Leeds Lieder Festival Young Artist and a 2022 Garsington Alvarez Young Artist. Operatic roles include Speranza (Orfeo - Garsington Opera), Ernestina (L’occasione fa il ladro - British Youth Opera at Opera Holland Park), Donna and Lady Fortune in Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune, Armelinde Viardot’s Cendrillon and Véronique (Le Docteur Miracle), Pompea (The Little Green Swallow - Guildhall Opera), Ruggiero Alcina (Ensemble Orquesta at Grimeborn Festival), Mrs Kneebone (A Dinner Engagement - RCM Opera Studio), Melanto (Il Ritorno D’Ulisse - Suffolk Villages Festival), and Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea - The New Renaissance Collective).
At the Drottningholm Slottsteater, Stockholm, she performed in Handel Opera Scenes as Serse and Sesto. Laura’s recent concert highlights have included making her Barbican Hall debut singing Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Roberto González-Monjas, being the alto ensemble member with Classical Opera and the Mozartist’s concert tour of Così fan tutte, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra, and Bach cantatas with the London Handel Orchestra.
She recently completed her studies on the Opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She previously graduated with a first class honours undergraduate degree and a Master of Performance degree with distinction from the Royal College of Music. She studies with Susan Waters.
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Updated January 2023. This biography should not be reproduced without asking permission from the National Opera Studio.