Komische Oper Berlin.
* Born in Barbados.
In May 2019, Georgina Melville made her debut at Semperoper Dresden, singing Juliette in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt under the baton of Dmitri Jurowski. At Komische Oper Berlin, coloratura soprano will make her debuts as Iris in Handel‘s Semele and Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni during the 2019/2020 season. Additionally, she will create the part of Jim Knopf in Kats-Chernin‘s world premiere of Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer.
Georgina Melville’s operatic repertoire includes Asteria in Handel‘s Tamerlano, Flaminia in Haydn‘s Il mondo della luna, Juliette in Korngold‘s Die tote Stadt, La Fée in Massenet‘s Cendrillon, Euridice in Monteverdi‘s L’Orfeo, the Mozart parts Mme Silberklang in Der Schauspieldirektor, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, as well as Héloïse in Offenbach‘s Blaubart, Princesse Nicolette in Prokofiev‘s L’amour des trois oranges, La Princesse, Le Feu and Le Rossignol in Ravel‘s L’enfant et les sortilèges, Modistin in Strauss‘ Der Rosenkavalier.
As concert soloist, the soprano performed Bach’s St. John’s Passion, Barber’s Four Songs, Delibes‘ Les filles de Cadix, Fauré‘s Requiem, Handel’s The Messiah, Haydn’s The Battle of the Nile, Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate and Laudate Dominum, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Plenivshis’ rozoy, solovey, Strauß’ Frühlingsstimmen-Walzer, Wagenseil’s La redenzione, Zemlinsky’s Walzer-Gesänge.
Georgina Melville performed under the baton of conductors including Gabriel Feltz, Dmitri Jurowski, Ainārs Rubiķis, Johannes Wildner and worked with directors including Robert Carsen, Stefan Herheim and Leonard Prinsloo.
