Ellen Pearson

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  • Mezzo-Soprano
  • Fellow

About Ellen

British mezzo-soprano Ellen Pearson is a Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Ballet & Opera (2025-2027).

She is a graduate of both the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal College of Music and was awarded the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize at the 2025 Kathleen Ferrier Awards.

Her roles this season for the Royal Ballet & Opera include include Zweite Dame Die Zauberflöte, Flora Bervoix La traviata, Julia in a chamber production of Elizabeth Maconchy's The Departure and Irina in Elena Langer's Four Sisters.

Ellen is based in London

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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Season Highlights

Oct 2025 - Nov 2025
Royal Ballet & Opera
Die Zauberflöte (Zweite Dame)
Oct 2025 - Oct 2025
Oxford
Recital with Francesca Lauri Oxford Song Festival
Jan 2026 - Feb 2026
Royal Ballet & Opera
La traviata (Flora)
May 2026 - May 2026
Barcelona
Recital with Francesca Lauri LIFE Victoria, Barcelona

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Selected Repertoire

Mozart

Cosi fan tutte (Dorabella)   •   Die Zauberflote (Second Lady)

Puccini

Gianni Schicchi (La Ciesca)

Rossini

Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina)   •   L’Italiana in Algeri (Isabella)

Verdi

La traviata (Flora)

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Press

  • Die Zauberflote (Zweite Dame)

    Royal Opera House
    Oct 2025 - Nov 2025

    • He and Tamino had a great time with the Three Ladies, Hannah Edmunds, Ellen Pearson (both Jette Parker Artists) and Emma Carrington. Their well-blended voices were sharp enough to slay the monster but they nearly forgot themselves in fawning over Tamino.

    • In a similar vein, during ‘O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn’ and ‘Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen’ the Ladies (Hannah Edmunds, Ellen Pearson and Emma Carrington on good form) are joined by three further veiled figures who help to accentuate the Queen of the Night’s presence by moving or swaying around her.

    • Les Trois Dames, bien que non caractérisées individuellement, ont une place centrale dans l’ouvrage, qui est ici parfaitement occupée par Hannah Edmunds, Ellen Pearson et Emma Carrington. Leur ensemble, très énergique, est homogène et aligné jusqu’aux consonnes finales, toujours bien sonnantes.

  • Gianni Schicchi (La Ciesca)

    Verbier Festival
    Jul 2025 - Jul 2025

    • Die jungen Sängerinnen und Sänger, darunter Katrīna Paula Felsberga (Nella), Maryam Wocial (Gherardino), Maksim Andreekov (Betto de Signa), Ossian Huskinson (Simone), Ellen Pearson (La Ciesca), Felix Gygli (Spinelloccio, Ser Amantio di Nicolao) Edward Birchinall (Guccio) und Anton Beliaev (Pinello) brachten mit viel Spielfreude grossen Ensemblegeist auf die Bühne, wie man ihn sich bei diesem Stück wünscht – chaotisch, komisch, aber musikalisch glasklar, einfach herrlich!

  • La traviata (Flora)

    Royal Opera House
    Jan 2026 - Jan 2026

    • Current Jette Parker Artists made up much of the remaining cast who did well with what little Verdi gives them: Ellen Pearson, sang Flora and Sam Hird (Baron Douphol), Giorgi Guliashvili (Gaston) and Ossian Huskinson (Marquis d’Obigny) were all solidly sung vignettes; as were Barnaby Rea as Doctor Grenvil and Veena Akama-Makia (a former Jette Parker Artist) as Annina. Despite some undoubtably reliable performances – and not forgetting the always dependable chorus – overall this La traviata revival lacked a compelling frisson which could have elevated it from just an okay one to something more memorable.

    • There is splendid support from Veena Akama-Makia as Annina, Barnaby Rea as Doctor Grenvil, Ellen Pearson as Flora Bervoix, Sam Hird as the Baron Douphol, Giorgi Guliashvili as Gastone de Letorières and Ossian Huskinson as the Marchese d’Obigny.