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About

Amelia is an Australian/Polish soprano enthralled by the beauty, drama and emotion of opera, art song and musical theatre. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music London, completing a Master of Arts (Performance) in 2023. She graduated from her Master of Music (Opera Performance) degree at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music with First Class Honours at the age of 22, where she also completed her BMus (Performance).

Amelia was a member of Melbourne Opera’s Richard Divall Emerging Artists Programme (2021/22), the winner of the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Prize in the 98th Herald Sun Aria Competition, a major prize recipient in the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award in 2021 and the winner of the 2022 Ringwood Aria and Bettine McCaughan Memorial Scholarship.

She has performed leading operatic roles of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), Soeur Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc), Cupidon and Juno in Orphée aux enfers (Offenbach) Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring (Britten) and has studied the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro.

Amelia performed the role of the Good Witch of the North in Victorian Opera’s 2022 production of Il Mago di Oz (The Wizard of Oz, Valtinoni). She was an ensemble member of Victorian Opera’s Alice Through the Opera Glass (2019) and Melbourne Opera’s production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2022).

At the Royal Academy of Music London, she performed fully-staged scenes as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata and Adina in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore in the Opera Scenes Concerts. She was also in the ensemble for the Academy’s full production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.

A true concert-lover, Amelia was a soloist with the Melbourne Opera Orchestra in the Bel Canto Spectacular, Christmas with Silvie Paladino and Mozart by Moonlight concerts. Other highlights include performing with the Melbourne Welsh Male Choir, on classical radio station 3MBS Fine Music, the QANTAS “I Still Call Australia Home” ad campaign, Hugh Jackman’s Arena Tour, Channel 9’s Carols by Candlelight and singing as a soloist at the MCG Boxing Day Test.