OLIVIA
CARRELL
Olivia Carrell is a lyric soprano from Hertfordshire, now based in London. Her recent engagements include the role of Tamiri in Mozart's Il Re Pastore (Buxton Opera Festival), Iris (cover) in Handel's Semele (Opéra de Lille), Spirit (cover) The Indian Queen (Le Concert D'Astree), Sybil Seligman -The Butterfly House (Clonter Opera). In 2025, she is rejoining Emmanuel Haïm's company Le Concert D'Astreé in Paris 2025 in their production of Semele at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées directed by Oliver Mears.
Her past roles include Blanche de la Force - Poulenc's Dialogue des Carmelites, Helena - Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Maria Bertram - Dove's Mansfield Park, First Witch - Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Second Donna -Donezetti's Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali and Rutilia - Cavalli's L'Egisto.
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She recently reached the semi-final of the 2024 International Handel Competition and the 2024 Hurn Court Opera Competition. Olivia is a member of the Philharmonia chorus.
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Coming up...
Hurn Court Opera Singing Competition
Semi-final
Winchester, 2nd November 2024
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​​Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
St John's Smith Square, Westminster
3rd November 2024
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Rutter Requiem
St Gile's Church, Camberwell
10th November 2024
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​​​​Haydn's Creation
Lytham St Annes Choral Society
16th November 2024
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Semele - Handel (chorus)
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris
ROH Production
Janurary - Feburary 2025
"Her silvery soprano fit the music like the glove"​ - Bachtrack, July 2023 Il Re Pastore, Buxton Opera Festival
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​"Olivia is a vivid actress as well an extremely capable lyric soprano" - Theatre Reviews North, July 2024, The Butterfly House, Clonter Opera
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Olivia Carrell [...] got laughs from the start, and both are very accomplished singers (in the best roles in the piece, actually)" - Theatre Reviews North, March 2023, Cendrillon, Buxton Opera
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"The final word must go to Carrell as Blanche [...]. Her skill as a singer and talent as an actor was astounding" - Northern Soul Review, December 2019 Dialogues des Carmelites, RNCM
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"Olivia Carrell in the role of Blanche de la Force presented a lovable and powerful character, with stunning vocals" - North West End, December 2019 Dialogues des Carmelites, RNCM
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