Georgia Mae Ellis

Georgia Mae Ellis is a British Mezzo Soprano from a small village in East Sussex, who studied for her undergraduate and Master’s degrees at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of Mary Plazas. She has just finished on the Global Talent Programme as a young artist at the National Opera Studio 23/24. She is honoured to say that her time at NOS was supported by the Glyndebourne New Generation Young Artists Development Award. Following her time at NOS she secured a principle role at Glyndebourne for their autumn season of 2024 singing the role of Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata.

In April 2023 she covered the role of Ramise in The Jette Parker Artists production of Arminio at The Linbury Theatre at The Royal Opera House. Previous to National Opera Studio she attended the Opera School at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Yvonne Howard and Ingrid Surgenor. At the start of her first year at the Academy she joined the Glyndebourne Chorus for their tour and was subsequently asked to perform Carmen’s Habanera at Glyndebourne’s annual Christmas concert in 2021.

For Royal Academy Opera, she has sung the roles of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Clomiri in Handel’s Imeneo, Der Komponist in the prologue to Ariadne auf Naxos, Jane in the world premiere of Freya Wayley-Cohen’s opera WITCH and Mother Goose in The Rake’s Progress. At the RNCM she performed the roles of La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, Suor Zelatrice in Suor Angelica, Mère Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites, the Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen and Fanny Price in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park. Recital works include Sieben Frühe Lieder by Alban Berg at The Wigmore Hall as part of The Royal Academy song circle concert in January 2023.

Her recent engagements have included singing the role of Mrs Grose in Benjamin Britten’s’ The Turn of The Screw with Waterperry Opera Festival. She was selected to perform alongside 11 gifted singers for the ‘Exploring Rossini’ with James Baillieu at Edinburgh Festival 2024. At National Opera Studio she performed in many different performances and concerts across the year, including the fantastic residency's that take place with Glyndebourne, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera and lastly English National Opera. Future engagements include returning to Waterperry Opera Festival for their mainstage production of Don Giovanni in August 2025 as Donne Elvira. She also debuts her role as Miss Jessel in Turn of The Screw for Cumbria Opera Group in August 2025.

Updated: May 2025