Australian soprano Georgia Melville is a current Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London. She recently joined the Wiener Staatsoper for the remainder of the 2025/26 season to cover roles as the recipient of the Michael Byrne Vienna State Opera Award. Georgia completed her Artist Diploma and Master’s degree at the Royal College of Music under the guidance of Janis Kelly, where she was the inaugural winner of the Alastair Jackson International Opera Award. 

In her last performance at the RCM, Georgia performed Monteverdi’s Lamento della ninfa in a project directed by Sir Thomas Allen. Georgia made her role debut as Countess Almaviva last spring in a production of Le nozze di Figaro directed by Jeremy Sams, also at the RCM. Of Georgia's performance as French cabaret singer Mistinguett in a staged production of Britten’s Les Illuminations, the Guardian remarked that she "held the stage with beguiling magnetism". In 2023, Georgia made her Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut as Soeur Claire in Barrie Kosky's  critically acclaimed production of Dialogues des Carmélites and in the Chorus of L’elisir d’amore. Other operatic credits include Hanna The Merry Widow, Donna Elvira in Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni Tenorio, The Nightingale in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco (all at RCM); Gretel Hänsel und Gretel (Westminster Opera); Arminda La finta giardiniera (Sydney Conservatorium of Music); and Pamina Die Zauberflöte and Rosalinde Die Fledermaus with Lyric Opera Studio Weimar. In scenes, she has sung Leïla Les pêcheurs de perles, Anne Truelove The Rake’s Progress, Bess Breaking the Waves, Blanche Dubois A Streetcar Named Desire, Vitellia La clemenza di Tito and First Lady Die Zauberflöte (all at NOS) Fiordiligi Così fan tutte and Governess The Turn of the Screw (both at RCM) as well as Juliette Roméo et Juliette and Donna Anna Don Giovanni with Melba Opera Trust.

Equally at home with song repertoire as with opera, Georgia won the Demant Dreikurs Scholarship for best undergraduate Lieder performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Georgia has participated in masterclasses with Kate Lindsay, Malcolm Martineau, Angela Gheorghiu, Louise Alder, Sir Thomas Allen, Sumi Jo, and Nelly Miricioiu. Highlights at the RCM include performing selections from Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été with the RCM Symphony Orchestra and performing in Song Plus concerts curated by Audrey Hyland, with notable repertoire including Brahm’s Liebeslieder Walzer and Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel. On the concert platform, she has performed as a soprano soloist in Bach’s Magnificat (Highgate Choral Society), Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, Handel’s Messiah (all with Manly-Warringah Choral Society) and Adams’ Grand Pianola Music (Sydney Conservatorium of Music). Other concert highlights include a Young Singers Recital with The Mozartists and 'Melba: Her Legacy in Concert' with Melba Opera Trust and the Australian Digital Concert Hall at the Athanaeum Theatre.

Before moving to London, Georgia was a 2020/21 Melba Opera Trust Artist, supported by the Amelia Joscelyne Memorial Scholarship. She was awarded the Megan Evans OAM Encouragement Award from the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation in 2021. An alumna of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Georgia holds a Bachelor of Music (Performance) and a Graduate Diploma in Opera.

Georgia acknowledges the support of the Tait Memorial Trust, the Melba Opera Trust, the Josephine Baker Trust and the Ian Smith of Stornaway Legacy during her studies in London.