Melissa Gregory
Mezzo-soprano
Australian mezzo-soprano Melissa Gregory is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Queensland Conservatorium. She is now based in the UK and was a Welsh National Opera Associate Artist for the 2023/24 season.
Melissa opened her 2025-6 season as Dorabella Cosi fan tutte for Tobacco Factory Theatre/Opera Project and at the start of 2026 sang her first Angelina La Cenerentola for Diva Opera in South Africa and the UK.
She returned to Glyndebourne in summer 2026, also appearing as a finalist in the prestigious Elizabeth Connell Prize, and begins her 26-7 season with her role debut as Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, returning to Tobacco Factory Theatre/Opera Project. In 2027, she makes her debut at Scottish Opera as Hansel Hansel & Gretel as part of the company’s early spring tour, and returns to Glyndebourne as Mercedes Carmen for the 2027 summer Festival.
In 2024, Melissa was awarded the prestigious Lady Fairfax La Scala Opera Award and spent part of her 2024/25 season in Milan, where she covered both Meg Page Falstaff and Olga Eugene Onegin. She returned to Glyndebourne Festival Opera for a further season in summer 2025, to include the cover of Varvara Kát’ya Kabanová. For her work at the 2024 Festival, Melissa was awarded the Miss Myriam Trevaux Award, having sung the role of Praskowia The Merry Widow, also covering Zaida Il turco in Italia for the autumn 2024 tour.
In competition, 2024 also saw Melissa awarded 3rd Prize in the 2024 Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Awards; she was also the winner of the 2023 Bampton Classical Opera Young Singer of the Year and the inaugural London Choral Sinfonia Leach Award for Singing. Melissa is also a Samling Artist.
For the 2023/24 season, Melissa was an Associate Artist at WNO, where she covered both Margarita Xirgu Ainadamar and Dorabella Cosi fan tutte. She was also a soloist for Play Opera Live!, Opera Favourites and gave an Associate Artist recital with Malcolm Martineau.
For Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Tour, Melissa has also sung the role of Soeur St Charles Dialogues des Carmélites, with other operatic engagements including Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro (RNCM), Der Komponist and Dryade Ariadne auf Naxos (RNCM/LGNOS), Fox The Cunning Little Vixen (RNCM), Orlofsky Die Fledermaus (Lyric Opera Studio, Weimar), Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel, Dritte Dame Die Zauberflöte and Florence Pike Albert Herring (Queensland Conservatorium), and Dido Dido and Aeneas (Musica Antiqua Collegii).
On the concert platform, Melissa recently performed in a London Handel Festival Finalists Recital at the Charterhouse in the Barbican. She has also performed the mezzo-soprano solos in the Verdi Requiem, broadcast on radio in Australia and overseas. Other highlights include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (QCGU), J.S Bach Magnificat, Schubert Magnificat in C, Beethoven Mass in C and Mozart Requiem (Queensland Choir).
La mezzo-soprano australienne Melissa Gregory, artiste associée du Welsh National Opera pour la saison 23/24, est diplômée du Royal Northern College of Music et du Queensland Conservatorium Elle vit à présent au Royaume-Uni.
Elle a reçu l'année dernière le prestigieux Lady Fairfax La Scala Opera Award, qui lui a permis de passer une partie de la saison 24/25 à la Scala de Milan, où elle a doublé Meg Page Falstaff et Olga Eugene Onegin. Elle retournera au Festival de Glyndebourne à l'été 2025, avec entre autres la doublure de Varvara Katia Kabanova, après y avoir chanté Praskovia La Veuve Joyeuse à l'été 2024 et doublé Zaida Il turco in Italia pour leur tournée d'automne.
Après s'être ouverte avec Dorabella Così fan tutte pour l'Opera Project à la Tobacco Factory (Bristol), la saison 2025-2026 de Melissa Gregory se poursuivra avec sa première Angelina La Cenerentola pour Diva Opera en Afrique du Sud et au Royaume-Uni, avant son retour à Glyndebourne à l'été 2026.
Elle a été lauréate du Bampton Classical Opera Young Singer of the Year 2023 et du premier London Choral Sinfonia Leach Award for Singing, finaliste au Concours international de chant Haendel 2022, et a remporté le 3ème prix au concours Joan Sutherland et Richard Bonynge Bel Canto 2024.
Au cours de la saison 23/24, Melissa a doublé pour le Welsh National Opera Margarita Xirgu Ainadamar et de Dorabella Cosi fan tutte. Elle a également été soliste pour Play Opera Live! et Opera Favorites et pour un récital avec Malcom Martineau.
Dans le cadre du Festival de et de sa tournée, elle a chanté Sœur Saint-Charles dans les Dialogues des Carmélites de Poulenc ; et entre autres, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro, le Komponist et Dryade Ariadne auf Naxos, le Renardeau La Petite Renarde Rusée pour le Royal Northern College of Music, Orlofsky Die Fledermaus (Lyric Opera Studio Weimar), Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel, la Troisième Dame Die Zauberflöte et Florence Pike Albert Herring (Queensland Conservatorium) ainsi que Dido Dido and Æneas (Musica Antiqua Collegii).
En concert, Melissa a participé au récital des finalistes du London Handel Festival au Barbican de Londres. Elle a aussi chanté la mezzo-soprano solo du Requiem de Verdi pour la radio australienne, la 9e Symphonie de Beethoven, le Magnificat de Bach, le Magnificat de Schubert, la Messe en ut de Beethoven et le Requiem de Mozart avec le Chœur du Queensland.
Reviews | Le nozze di Figaro | Seen and Heard International | RNCM
“Another outstanding performance was given by Melissa Gregory as the cocky young page Cherubino... Gregory excelled as the page displaying both her splendid voice and natural acting skills”