Praised for her ‘unaffected simplicity’ (Classical Source) and ‘velvety mezzo’ timbres (The Telegraph), British mezzo-soprano, Camilla Seale, made her operatic debut at Buxton International Festival as Prince Charming in Viardot’s Cendrillon before joining the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus the following season. In 2023-2024 she was a Young Artist on the Global Talent Programme at the National Opera Studio, London and also a Britten-Pears Artist. She looks forward to performing Orlofsky in a UK Tour of Die Fledermaus in early 2025, as well as covering Angelina in La Cenerentola for Hurn Court Opera.
For NOS, she has performed scenes as Medée in Charpentier’s Medée and Hel in Higgins’ The Monstrous Child; Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Raphaël (La Princesse de Trébizonde) - WNO; Idamante (Idomeneo), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) and Angelina (La Cenerentola) - Opera North; Orfeo (Orfeo ed Eurydice), Nancy (Albert Herring)
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and La Marquise (La Fille du Régiment) - Scottish Opera / ENO; Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) - Glyndebourne.
Her other operatic roles include Orlofsky Die Fledermaus (Merry Opera Tour), creating Bella in Tom Smail’s Blue Electric (Tête à Tête; Playground Theatre); Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro (RNCM); Mrs. Nolan in Menotti’s The Medium (RNCM); Mary in John Tavener’s Mary of Egypt (King’s College Chapel, Cambridge); Madam By-Ends and Madam Bubble The Pilgrim’s Progress (BYO) and scenes as Olga Eugene Onegin (Opera North / RNCM); Fox The Cunning Little Vixen (Morley Opera); Don Ettore La Canterina (RNCM); Dorabella Così fan tutte (RNCM).
As a collaborative performer, she ran the devising ensemble, the New Renaissance Collective from 2018-2021 and co-created and performed in productions including Beaten Gold and an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis.
Alongside oratorio repertoire, recent concert highlights include Emily Howard’s Threnos at the Wigmore Hall, Schumann’s Liederkreis Op.39 at the Manchester Song Festival and French mélodie at the Salle Cortot, Paris with Jong Sun Woo. She is a member of the 2024 Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange run by Felicity Lott, and performs baroque repertoire regularly with Musica Antica Rotherhithe in London and across the UK. She is also a guest artist with the Edvard Grieg Kor, Bergen National Opera, and RIAS Kammerchor Berlin.
She graduated with Distinction from her Masters and Diploma at RNCM, where she studied with Jane Irwin and Michael Harper, with the continued support of Help Musicians. There, she was the First Prize recipient of the Betty Bannerman Award for French Song, the Brigitte Fassbaender Award for Lieder and the Creative Innovator Award. Most recently, she was awarded First Prize at the Sir John Maddison Opera Award, Third Prize at the Concours international de chant baroque de Froville and was a semi-finalist at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards.
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Camilla came to music at an early age, signing with the cross-over group, Angelis, under Sony BMG. She studied English at Girton College, Cambridge and then Social Inequality at LSE where she published articles for Classical Music magazine on freelance music making (here and here). She is also a keen aerial artist and was a member of the Salon Collective, where she trained in Meisner’s acting method.
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'her attractively unforced voice and gentle vibrato' - Early Music Reviews
'winningly sung' - The Spectator
NRC R&D, Lyme Regis