Irish soprano Kelli-Ann Masterson is an alumna of both the ABL Irish National Opera Studio and Northern Ireland Opera Studio. She is also a current Cara O’ Sullivan Associate Artist with Cork Opera House.
Her recent engagements include Norina/Don Pasquale and Marzelline/ Fidelio (Irish National Opera), the title role/ Semele (Opera Collective Ireland), Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel (Cork Opera House), Yum-Yum/The Mikado (Opera Della Luna), Belinda/Dido & Aeneas and Amor/Orfeo ed Euridice (Blackwater Valley Opera Festival) and Phyllis/Iolanthe (National G&S Company/Buxton), as well as Frasquita/Carmen and Yum-Yum/The Mikado in concert both in Ireland and the UK. Other roles include La Fée in Viardot’s Cendrillon (Wexford Festival Opera), Pamina/Die Zauberflöte and Micaëla in Peter Brook’s La tragédie de Carmen at Cork Opera House. She also regularly appears on the concert platform, with recent performances including Handel Messiah (Ulster Orchestra/Christian Curnyn) and Mozart Mass in C Minor (RTE Concert Orchestra).
Kelli-Ann’s current and future plans include Casilda/The Gondoliers (her debut for English Touring Opera), and a return to Wexford Festival Opera as Rosalia in Rossini’s L’equivoco stravagante.