Biography
Chloe Harris is an Australian mezzo soprano, and a graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) and the Royal Academy of Music (RAM). Chloe has performed the roles of Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Clarina (Il matrimonio di cambiale), Nancy (Albert Herring), Public Opinion (Orphée aux enfers), as well as debuting the role of The Second Fairy in the world premiere of The Selfish Giant with Victorian Opera. Other roles in operas and scenes include Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Idamante (Idomeneo), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Charlotte (Werther), Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).
Chloe started as an Emerging Artist of Melbourne Opera’s Richard Divall Emerging Artists Programme, and is now an Associate Artist with Melbourne Opera. Chloe was a Melba Opera Trust Artist for 2020 and 2021, and was the recipient of the Ryman Healthcare Opera Scholarship and Eleanor Blakemore Opera Society Scholarship. Chloe also joined Young Songmakers Development Program with Songmakers Australia in 2020. In 2019, Chloe Harris was a finalist in Australia’s national operatic competition Herald Sun Aria, where she was a winner of the Richard Divall Prize.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music Opera School, Chloe also received a DipRAM for an outstanding performance in her final Master’s recital, studying with Susan Waters and Jonathan Papp. She was supported by the Anson Charitable Trust, and was a 2022 awardee of the Tait Memorial Trust, Ian Potter Cultural Trust and Australian Music Foundation, and a 2023 awardee of Help Musicians UK and Opera Awards Foundation. In her short time at the Academy, Chloe became a member of the Academy’s prestigious Song Circle, and is an approved singer for the Josephine Baker Trust.
Chloe has won The Opera Foundation for young Australians 2023 Lady Galleghan London Award, which included the opportunity to perform with Opera Holland Park for their 2023 season. She was at Garsington Opera for the 2024 season as an Alvarez Young Artist, performing in the chorus of Le nozze di Figaro and covering the roles of Marcellina, 2nd Bridesmaid and Moon Queen for the opera A Trip to the Moon.
Chloe is an Emerging Artist with Scottish Opera for their 2024/2025 season, which includes Nancy in Britten’s Albert Herring, national Opera Highlights Tour, Council in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, and Cherry Penistone in the premiere of Toby Hession’s A Matter of Misconduct, a double bill with Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park.
“Chloe Harris was a delightful Marcellina, attractive, lively and witty.”
— Claire Seymour, Opera Today
“As Nancy, Chloe Harris has a mezzo as juicy as one of Albert’s peaches.”
— The Spectator
“Chloe Harris was a ‘chav with a heart of gold’ as Nancy, he singing nuanced as well as secure.”
— Music OMH
