Lily Mo Browne

Bio

Described as having ‘a richly hued, deep voice,’ which ‘generated expressive, emotional and dramatic power’ mezzo-soprano Lily Mo Browne is the most recent winner of the Kathleen Ferrier award.  She is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, and currently studies under Ben Johnson as a Young Artist of the National Opera Studio, London. She made her international debut as Filipyevna in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with Verbier Festival’s Atelier Lyrique Academy. Other roles include Dido Dido and Aeneas, Second Witch Dido and Aeneas, Old Lady Candide, Zweite and Dreite Dame Die Zauberflöte, La Regina La bella dormente nel bosco and Marie Airtime with the RCM International Opera Studio.  She has performed solos in Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem, and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time.  As an avid recitalist, Lily has performed with pianists Roger Vignoles, James Baillieu and Simon Lepper.  More competition success includes 1st prize in the Somerset Song Prize, where she also received the Audience Prize, 1st prize in the AESS’s Patricia Routledge Senior Song Prize, and the Sarah Harrison Prize in Hurn Court Opera’s Singer of the Year competition. Lily was awarded with the Laurus Florentiae in Florence in 2025, where she also won the award for the Best Performance of an Italian Aria.  Her studies are generously supported by the Drake Calleja Trust and Lionel and Marylynn Anthony.

Lily’s time at the Studio is generously supported by Lionel and Marylynn Anthony.