About Lily Mo Browne
‘‘A mezzo-soprano with a richly hued, deep voice, she generated expressive, emotional and dramatic power.’
Rebecca Franks, The Sunday Times 2025
Described as having ‘a richly hued, deep voice,’ which ‘generated expressive, emotional and dramatic power’ mezzo-soprano Lily Mo Browne is the most recent winner of the Kathleen Ferrier award. She is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, London, and is a 2025/2026 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio, London studying under Ben Johnson. She is generously supported by the Drake Calleja Trust and Lionel and Marylynn Anthony.
Lily recently debuted the roles of Dido in Dido and Aeneas,and made her international debut as Flippyevna in Eugene Onegin at the Verbier Festival as an Academie Lyrique Young Artist, where she also covered Mama Lucia in the main-stage production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. In 2026, she will join soprano Sonja Yoncheva and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for their concert performance and recording of Dvořák’s Rusalka as the Third Wood Nymph, and will sing Mama Lucia at the Lake District Music Festival.
Operatic roles also include Second Witch Dido and Aeneas (Hurn Court Opera) and Old Lady Candide (Southgate Youth Opera), Dritte and Zweite Damen Die Zauberflöte and La Regina La bella dormente nel bosco with the RCM Opera Studio. Opera Scenes include Bradamante Alcina, Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress, Thurza The Wreckers, Isabella L’italiana in Algeri, Mistress Quickly Falstaff, Popova The Bear, Madame de la Haltière Cendrillon La Principessa Adriana Lecouvreur, Orfeo Orfeo ed Euridice and Tancredi Tancredi. Lily debuted the role of Marie in Ed Driver’s Airtime, in collaboration with Tete-A-Tete Opera. As a soloist, she has performed Handel’s Messiah, Duruflé’s Requiem, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time.
An avid recitalist, Lily has performed recitals with the London Song Festival, RCM’s SongPlus concert series, Hurn Court Opera, Luton Music Club and Somerset Song, alongside pianists Roger Vignoles, James Baillieu, Jo Ramadan, and Simon Lepper, and will join Iain Burnside and Iain Tindale this year for two recitals. She made her Cadogan Hall, London debut performing Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra in March 2026. She has taken part in masterclasses with Dame Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams OBE, Barbara Frittoli, Kate Lyndsey and Thomas Hampson. More notable competition success includes 3rd prize at the Junior Ferrier competition in 2019, 1st prize at the Somerset Song Prize, where she also received the Audience Prize, 1st prize in the AESS’s Patricia Routledge Senior Song Prize, and the Sarah Harrison Prize in Hurn Court Opera’s Singer of the Year competition. Lily was awarded with the Laurus Florentiae in Florence in 2025, where she also won the award for the Best Performance of an Italian Aria.
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About Lily Mo Browne
‘A mezzo-soprano with a richly hued, deep voice, she generated expressive, emotional and dramatic power.’
Rebecca Franks, The Sunday Times 2025
Described as having‘a richly hued, deep voice,’ which ‘generated expressive, emotional and dramatic power’ mezzo-soprano Lily Mo Browne is the most recent winner of the Kathleen Ferrier award. She is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, London, and is a 2025/2026 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio, London studying under Ben Johnson. She is generously supported by the Drake Calleja Trust and Lionel and Marylynn Anthony.
Lily recently debuted the roles of Dido in Dido and Aeneas,and made her international debut as Flippyevna in Eugene Onegin at the Verbier Festival as an Academie Lyrique Young Artist, where she also covered Mama Lucia in the main-stage production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. In 2026, she will join soprano Sonja Yoncheva and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for their concert performance and recording of Dvořák’s Rusalka as the Third Wood Nymph, and will sing Mama Lucia at the Lake District Music Festival.
Operatic roles also include Second Witch Dido and Aeneas (Hurn Court Opera) and Old Lady Candide (Southgate Youth Opera), Dritte and Zweite Damen Die Zauberflöte and La Regina La bella dormente nel bosco with the RCM Opera Studio. Opera Scenes include Bradamante Alcina, Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress, Thurza The Wreckers, Isabella L’italiana in Algeri, Mistress Quickly Falstaff, Popova The Bear, Madame de la Haltière Cendrillon La Principessa Adriana Lecouvreur, Orfeo Orfeo ed Euridice and Tancredi Tancredi. Lily debuted the role of Marie in Ed Driver’s Airtime, in collaboration with Tete-A-Tete Opera. As a soloist, she has performed Handel’s Messiah, Duruflé’s Requiem, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time.
An avid recitalist, Lily has performed recitals with the London Song Festival, RCM’s SongPlus concert series, Hurn Court Opera, Luton Music Club and Somerset Song, alongside pianists Roger Vignoles, James Baillieu, Jo Ramadan, and Simon Lepper, and will join Iain Burnside and Iain Tindale this year for two recitals. She made her Cadogan Hall, London debut performing Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra in March 2026. She has taken part in masterclasses with Dame Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams OBE, Barbara Frittoli, Kate Lyndsey and Thomas Hampson. More notable competition success includes 3rd prize at the Junior Ferrier competition in 2019, 1st prize at the Somerset Song Prize, where she also received the Audience Prize, 1st prize in the AESS’s Patricia Routledge Senior Song Prize, and the Sarah Harrison Prize in Hurn Court Opera’s Singer of the Year competition. Lily was awarded with the Laurus Florentiae in Florence in 2025, where she also won the award for the Best Performance of an Italian Aria.