Mezzo-soprano
Aebh Kelly
La traviataBiography
Mezzo-soprano Aebh Kelly was born in Dublin, where she graduated with first class honours from the Royal Irish Academy of Music under Virginia Kerr and Dearbhla Collins. In 2019, whilst still an undergraduate, Aebh qualified to compete in the final round of the Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition.
Aebh joined INO Studio in 2020, becoming their youngest ever studio artist. Here she featured in a variety of productions including 20 Shots of Opera, Puccini’s La bohème and Amanda Feery’s A Thing I Cannot Name.
In 2021, Aebh moved to Florence as a Mascarade Emerging Artist, where she has performed numerous roles including extracts from Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Popova in Walton’s The Bear at the Lerici Music Festival, and also made her German debut as Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at Theater und Orchester Heidelberg. It was also during her studies in Italy that Aebh was awarded second prize at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition as well as the Dublin Song Series Prize and the Dermot Troy Prize. Aebh made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jonathan Bloxham at the National Concert Hall as part of the summer lunchtime concert series 2022.
This summer Aebh will attend the world-renowned Georg Solti Accademia and also make her debut as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Kammeroper Festival, Berlin, in collaboration with Opera Collective Ireland. From September 2024 Aebh will be based in Hamburg as a member of the International Opera Studio at Staatsoper Hamburg
April 2024