Most recent winner of the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier awards, British mezzo-soprano Lily Mo Browne studies under Ben Johnson and is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, London.  She is supported by the Drake Calleja Trust and joins the National Opera Studio, London (NOS) and the Verbier Festival Academy’s Atelier Lyrique as a Young Artist in 2025. She recently debuted the roles of Dido in Dido and Aeneas with the Northern Chords Festival, and Flippyevna in Eugene Onegin with the Verbier Festival earlier this season.  Other roles include Second Witch Dido and Aeneas (Hurn Court Opera), Old Lady Candide (Southgate Youth Opera), Zweite and Dreite Dame Die Zauberflöte, La Regina La bella dormente nel bosco and Marie Airtime with the RCM International Opera Studio. Oratorio works include Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem, and Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time.