Winner of the Alastair Jackson International Opera Award, Australian lyric soprano Georgia Melville is a member of the Royal College of Music’s Opera Studio studying with Professor Janis Kelly.
 
This March, Georgia makes her role debut as the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal College of Music. Her roles at the Royal College of Music include Mistinguett in a staged performance of Britten's Les Illuminations, Hanna in The Merry Widow, Donna Elvira in Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni Tenorio and The Nightingale in Respighi's La bella dormenta nel bosco in the Opera Studio's productions, as well as scenes as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Governess in The Turn of the Screw and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. Georgia performed at the 2023 Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Soeur Claire in the ensemble of nuns in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Dialogues des Carmélites and also in the Chorus of L’elisir d’amore. Her other roles include Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel with Westminster Opera Company,  Marie in Three Penelopes, a new opera by Richie Johnsen, co-produced by the RCM and pathfinding opera company Tête-à-Tête, Arminda in La finta giardiniera at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Coridon in Acis and Galatea at the Peninsula Summer Music Festival.

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. Highlights at the RCM include masterclasses with Sumi Jo, Sir Thomas Allen, Louise Alder, and Angela Gheorghiu and performing selections from Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été with the RCM Symphony Orchestra. On the concert platform, she has performed as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, Handel’s Messiah and Adams’ Grand Pianola Music. As a Melba Opera Trust Artist, Georgia performed in 'Melba: Her Legacy in Concert' with Melba Opera Trust and the Australian Digital Concert Hall.

Before moving to London, Georgia was a 2020-2021 Artist with Melba Opera Trust as a recipient of the Amelia Joscelyne Memorial Scholarship. A Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumna, Georgia graduated with high distinction in her Bachelor of Music (Performance). Here she was recognised on the Dean’s List of Excellence in Academic Performance and received many awards, including the Henderson Scholarship and ESTIVO Scholarship for study in Italy. 

Georgia was awarded the Megan Evans OAM Encouragement Award in the Finals of the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation’s 2021 Bel Canto Award. She was also an Encouragement Grant winner and finalist in the 2021 German-Australian Opera Grant and a semi-finalist in the 2018 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition. 

Georgia Melville is the Alastair Jackson International Opera Award Holder supported by Melba Opera Trust and the Tait Memorial Trust. She is also kindly supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and The Ian Smith of Stornoway Legacy.

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