Ellen Pearson

British mezzo-soprano Ellen Pearson is a Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Opera House (2025/27). She is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music (First-Class Honours), and the Royal College of Music (Master’s of Music with Distinction). Pearson is an Opera Prelude Artist, an artist on the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange Programme, an Oxford International Song Young Artist 2024/2025, A Samling Artist, a Shipston Song Rising Star and a Britten Pears Young Artist. She is a former 2023/24 Opera Holland Park Young Artist where she sang the role of Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia).

Other roles include La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi) at the Verbier Festival, Isabella (L’Italiana in Algeri) at Longhope Opera, Donna Ximena (Don Giovanni), Anna Swann (Barnum’s Bird by Libby Larsen) and cover Il Cucolo (La bella dormente nel bosco) at the Royal College of Music and Uno di Due Donne (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Royal Northern College of Music.

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

2025/26 Royal Opera House roles include Second Lady (The Magic Flute), Flora Bervoix (La traviata) and Julia and Irina in the JPAP chamber productions of The Departure by Elizabeth Maconchy and Four Sisters by Elena Langer. Cover roles include Hotel Maid (The Makropulos Case), Giovanna (Rigoletto) and Enrichetta di Francia (I puritani).

Updated 2025