Australian soprano Georgia Melville recently completed her Artist Diploma and Master’s studies at the Royal College of Music (RCM) under the tutelage of Janis Kelly, where she was the inaugural winner of the Alastair Jackson International Opera Award. For the 2025/26 season, Georgia will join the National Opera Studio as a Young Artist and then the Wiener Staatsoper as the recipient of the Michael Byrne Vienna State Opera Award.

Last spring, Georgia made her role debut as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the RCM. She portrayed Mistinguett in a staged production of Britten’s song cycle Les Illuminations, also at the RCM. In 2023, Georgia made her Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut as Soeur Claire in the festival’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 Fiordiligi Così fan tutte, Governess The Turn of the Screw and Donna Elvira Don Giovanni in Opera Scenes at RCM, as well as Juliette Roméo et Juliette and Donna Anna Don Giovanni in scenes 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 featured 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, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, Handel’s Messiah and Adams’ Grand Pianola 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.

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.