Canadian soprano Avery Lafrentz is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Opera Course and was the recipient of the Rosemary Thayer Award, Beris Hudson Award, and the Timothy Brennan KC Scholarship. She holds a Master of Music in Voice and Opera Performance from McGill University (Montréal) and a Bachelor of Arts & Science in Psychology and Biological Anthropology from the University of Toronto, Canada.
Operatic roles include Iolanthe Der Wald, Witch Strings of Rebellion, Miss Wingrave Owen Wingrave, and in scenes as Vitellia La Clemenza di Tito, Lady Billows Albert Herring, Title role La Gioconda, Der Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier (Guildhall School); Title role Suor Angelica (Greve in Chianti, Tuscany); Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Anna Maurrant Street Scene, Vitellia Clemenza di Tito, Governess Turn of the Screw, and Older Sister Come Closer (Opera McGill, Montréal); and Robin Northern Lights Dream (Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, Toronto).
In concert she has appeared as a soloist with the London School Symphony Orchestra, UBU contemporary Ensemble (Guildhall School), the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Canada), and Paul Carr’s Requiem for an Angel (Regina Philharmonic Choir). She has also been a recitalist with Dylan Perez and Nicky Spence OBE, participated as a professional fellow at Song Fest in Los Angeles, California as a grant winner from the Art Song Foundation of Canada.
She will appear as a soloist as part of the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland performing Britten’s symphonic cycle Our Hunting Fathers. Avery joins the Scottish Opera as an Emerging Artist for the 2026/27 season.