Biography
Chloe Harris is an Australian mezzo soprano, and a graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) and the Royal Academy of Music (RAM). She received a DipRAM for an outstanding performance in her final Master’s recital, and completed a graduate diploma at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music Opera Studio (RAO). She is currently an Emerging Artist with Scottish Opera for 2024/26.
Chloe has performed the roles of Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Clarina (Il matrimonio di cambiale), Nancy (Albert Herring) with RAO. She was at Garsington Opera for the 2024 season as an Alvarez Young Artist, performing in the chorus of Le nozze di Figaro and covering the roles of Marcellina, 2nd Bridesmaid and Moon Queen for the opera A Trip to the Moon. Her 2024/2025 season with Scottish Opera included the role of Council in Trial by Jury and Cherry Penistone in A Matter of Misconduct (world premiere); a Double Bill in collaboration with D’Oyly Carte Opera and Opera Holland Park. She also sang the role of Nancy (Albert Herring), and performed in the national Opera Highlights Tour. Other roles in operas and scenes include Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Idamante (Idomeneo), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Charlotte (Werther), Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).
In Australia, Chloe started as an Emerging Artist of Melbourne Opera’s Richard Divall Emerging Artists Programme, and is now an Associate Artist with Melbourne Opera. Chloe was a Melba Opera Trust Artist for 2020 and 2021, and was the recipient of the Ryman Healthcare Opera Scholarship and Eleanor Blakemore Opera Society Scholarship. Chloe also joined Young Songmakers Development Program with Songmakers Australia in 2020. In 2019, Chloe Harris was a finalist in Australia’s national operatic competition Herald Sun Aria, where she was a winner of the Richard Divall Prize. She debuted the role of The Second Fairy in the world premiere of The Selfish Giant with Victorian Opera.
She was supported by the Anson Charitable Trust, and was a 2022 awardee of the Tait Memorial Trust, Ian Potter Cultural Trust and Australian Music Foundation, and a 2023 awardee of Help Musicians UK and Opera Awards Foundation. In her short time at the Academy, Chloe became a member of the Academy’s prestigious Song Circle, and is an approved singer for the Josephine Baker Trust. Chloe has won The Opera Foundation for young Australians 2023 Lady Galleghan London Award, which included the opportunity to perform with Opera Holland Park for their 2023 season.
Chloe is looking forward to performing the roles of Yelena Ivanovna Popova (The Bear), Koto (The Great Wave - world premiere), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro), and performing in the national Opera Highlights Autumn Tour for Scottish Opera’s 2025/26 season.
“Chloe Harris was a delightful Marcellina, attractive, lively and witty.”
— Claire Seymour, Opera Today
“As Nancy, Chloe Harris has a mezzo as juicy as one of Albert’s peaches.”
— The Spectator
“Chloe Harris was a ‘chav with a heart of gold’ as Nancy, he singing nuanced as well as secure.”
— Music OMH
