Nancy Holt

British mezzo-soprano Nancy Holt recently completed the National Opera Studio, having previously graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Opera Course. She is a 2024/25 Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist, a Britten Pears Young Artist 2025/26 and an Edinburgh International Festival Rising Star of Voice 2025. Nancy is the recipient of the 2024/25 Musicans’ Company Salomon Seelig Award, made her debut recital at the Wigmore Hall in April and won second prize at The Ashburnham English Song Awards 2025.

This coming season, Nancy will cover the role of Guest Singer in Like Water for Chocolate at The Royal Ballet and Opera, and Hebe in HMS Pinafore at English National Opera. Other recent highlights including being awarded the Simon Sandbach Award for her time at Garsington Opera 2024 as an Alvarez Young Artist, where she covered Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and performed as Maenad 2 in Rameau’s Platée. She also joined IF Opera in 2024, covering Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and was an Associate Artist with Nevill Holt Opera in 2023 playing Tisbe in La Cenerentola. In 2022, she won the Basil A. Turner Award at British Youth Opera.

Nancy is supported by the Help Musicians Sybil Tutton Opera Award and the Countess of Munster Trust. She studies with John Evans. Nancy is also a trained dancer, having studied ballet, modern, and tap dance for over ten years.

Updated September 2025