Laure Meloy is a dramatic soprano specialising in challenging 20th and 21st century opera. Recent engagements include making her debut as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre at the Grimeborn Festival in London, singing the Duchess in the world premiere of Edward Lambert’s Masque of Vengeance, performing the title role in Zaïde for her debut in Germany, joining the roster of the Metropolitan Opera New York, and winning the Hawai’i Public Radio International Art Song Contest. She has sung leading roles with the Royal Opera House, Hungarian State Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, as well as with English Touring Opera during its Olivier Award-winning season.
Her voice is featured on the soundtrack of the documentary film Rocketmen. Meloy has sung concerts, oratorios and song recitals at venues including Canterbury Cathedral, Rochester Cathedral, and in the Canterbury Festival. She co-wrote and produced a monodrama about poet Elizabeth Bishop, which featured at the 2019 Tête à Tête Opera Festival, and was later reimagined as a radio drama. Her essays about life in the performing arts have featured in both online and print journals, and in 2020 she completed a memoir, From Aïda to Zaïde: scribblings of a mad soprano.