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 was awarded a DipRAM for an outstanding final Master’s recital and completed a Graduate Diploma at the Royal Academy Opera (RAO). She is currently an Emerging Artist with Scottish Opera (2024–26).
Her 2024/25 season with Scottish Opera included Council in Trial by Jury and Cherry Penistone in A Matter of Misconduct (world premiere), presented as a Double Bill in collaboration with D’Oyly Carte Opera and Opera Holland Park. She also sang Nancy (Albert Herring) and performed in the company’s national Opera Highlights Tour.
While at RAO, Chloe performed the roles of Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Clarina (Il matrimonio di cambiale), and Nancy (Albert Herring). In 2024, she joined Garsington Opera as an Álvarez Young Artist, performing in the chorus of Le nozze di Figaro and covering Marcellina, Second Bridesmaid, and the Moon Queen in A Trip to the Moon. Other operatic roles and scenes include Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Idamante (Idomeneo), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Charlotte (Werther), and Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).
In Australia, Chloe began her career as an Emerging Artist with Melbourne Opera’s Richard Divall Emerging Artists Programme and is now an Associate Artist with Melbourne Opera. She was a Melba Opera Trust Artist in 2020 and 2021 and a recipient of the Ryman Healthcare Opera Scholarship and Eleanor Blakemore Opera Society Scholarship. She joined the Songmakers Australia Young Songmakers Development Program in 2020 and was a finalist in the 2019 Herald Sun Aria, where she won the Richard Divall Prize. She also debuted The Second Fairy in the world premiere of The Selfish Giant with Victorian Opera.
Chloe has been 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 the Opera Awards Foundation. During her time at RAM, she became a member of the Academy’s prestigious Song Circle and is an approved singer for the Josephine Baker Trust. She is also the recipient of The Opera Foundation for young Australians’ 2023 Lady Galleghan London Award, which included the opportunity to perform with Opera Holland Park during their 2023 season.
Chloe has already performed the role of Yelena Ivanovna Popova (The Bear) and appeared in Scottish Opera’s national Opera Highlights Tour. She looks forward to performing the role of Koto in The Great Wave (world premiere) and Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro for Scottish Opera’s 2025/26 season.
‘Chloe Harris as Counsel for the Plaintiff, her gorgeous mezzo a highlight in ‘May it please you, my lud!’’
—Bachtrack
“As Cherry, his hapless influencer wife, Chloe Harris delivers moments of unexpected pathos, giving the production emotional ballast.”
—The Quinntessential Review
“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
