Georgia Melville

Bio

Australian soprano Georgia Melville recently graduated from the Royal College of Music (RCM) Opera Studio under the guidance of Janis Kelly, where she was the inaugural winner of the Alastair Jackson International Opera Award. For the 2025/26 season, Georgia will be a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio and then join the Wiener Staatsoper as the recipient of the Michael Byrne Vienna State Opera Award.

Georgia’s operatic roles include Countess Le nozze di Figaro, Hanna The Merry Widow, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni Tenorio (all at RCM), Gretel Hänsel und Gretel (Westminster Opera Company), Arminda La finta giardiniera (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), Pamina Die Zauberflöte and Rosalinde Die Fledermaus (both with Lyric Opera Studio Weimar). She also portrayed Mistinguett in a staged production of Britten’s song cycle Les Illuminations at the RCM. Georgia made her Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut as Soeur Claire in Dialogues des Carmélites and in the Chorus of L’elisir d’amore in 2023.

Concert highlights include a Young Singers Recital with The Mozartists, Berlioz’s Les nuits d’éte with the RCM Symphony Orchestra, and Song Plus concerts at the RCM.

An alumna of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Georgia won the Demant Dreikurs Scholarship for best undergraduate Lieder performance and holds a Bachelor of Music (Performance) and a Graduate Diploma in Opera.

Georgia’s time at the Studio is generously supported by Philip Carne MBE.