Biography

Olivia Carrell is a lyric soprano from Hertfordshire, now based in London studying under the tutelage of Marie McLaughlin.  She graduated with a Masters in Performance from the Royal Northern College of Music. ​Her 2025/26 season includes a solo debut with the BBC Concert Orchestra recording Dyson’s Hierusalem and a European tour with Jonathan Cohen’s Arcangelo Ensemble. In Summer 2026, Olivia will make her Opera Holland Park role debut as Ida in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus and will also perform the role of Evie in Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor at Wilton’s Music Hall.

Her recent performances have seen her at the Buxton Opera Festival as Tamiri in Mozart’s Il Re Pastore, praised by Bachtrack for her “silvery soprano,” and at Wexford Festival Opera, where she made her role debut in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg as Zweit Zofe. She has also performed with Opera Holland Park and rejoined Le Concert d’Astrée for a new Royal Opera House production of Semele at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris. She will rejoin the company in 2026 performing Massiah with the LA Philharmonic. Recently she's also been seen covering the role of Iris in Handel’s Semele (Opéra de Lille) and Spirit in Purcell’s The Indian Queen (Le Concert d’Astrée). She has also performed as Sybil Seligman in The Butterfly House (Clonter Opera), Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Maria Bertram in Dove’s Mansfield Park, First Witch in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Second Donna in Donizetti’s Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, and Rutilia in Cavalli’s L’Egisto.

Olivia is a semi-finalist of the 2024 International Handel Competition and the 2024 Hurn Court Opera Competition. She is also a member of the Philharmonia chorus.​