Kelly Sharp - Mezzo Soprano
“Surrey’s chief delight on offer was Kelly Sharp’s Rosina: here was the deftness, lightness and cheekiness needed to carry off Rossini.”
Opera Now – Mar/Apr 10
(The Barber of Seville, Surrey Opera, Sep '09)
Kelly Sharp studied music and theatre at the University of Huddersfield before training at Trinity College of Music, London. She then took part on The Knack, an English National Opera performance course.
Since graduating, Kelly has toured extensively with various opera companies. Roles have included Louhi in Jonathan Dove's new opera Swanhunter (Opera North, 2009); Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville (Surrey Opera, 2009); Beggar Women in Britten’s Death in Venice (Aldeburgh/Bregenz, 2007); Allure in Mason’s Playing Away (Bregenz, 2007) and the cover of Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Grange Park Opera, 2006).
On the concert and oratorio platform, Kelly has been the mezzo-soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah (Lymington Choral Society), Mendelssohn's Elijah (Theydon Bois Singers) and a concert performance of Sullivan's Iolanthe (Theydon Bois Singers). She was the vocal soloist for the song-cycle Women in Love by Tansy Davis (Aldeburgh Festival 2007, Faster than Sound).
Kelly is a leading soloist for The Bold Balladiers, a company that specialises in Victorian and Edwardian repertoire, and regularly performs in their Second World War touring show. Kelly also sings regularly in concert as a soloist for Opera North.
"....among the other parts.......Kelly Sharp was good as the Beggerwoman" Opera Magazine - Aug 07
(Death in Venice, Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings, June 2007)
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