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Sky Ingram is an international soprano who made her debut at The Royal Opera House as Lea in the world premiere of Glare to huge critical acclaim, returning twice more to sing the goddess Venus in Rossi’s Orpheus and Female Chorus for The Rape of Lucretia.

Other career highlights to date include Sky’s American debut as Avis/The Wreckers for Bard SummerScape in New York, the title role in Fedora for If Opera, La Contessa/Le nozze di Figaro in Kristiansand Norway, Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni with Garsington Opera and again in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées., the title role in Rusalka in Valladolid Spain, and Helena/A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Opera North.

Sky Ingram is an Australian soprano of English, Scottish and Norwegian descent, who trained at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Later she moved to London where she studied on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio (sponsored by Opera North).

Sky has performed oratorio, concert and recital repertoire around Australia, in New York, Norway, France, Germany and the UK, and has sung on ABC and BBC radio. She is a regular guest artist with Raymond Gubbay Ltd. and with them has been the soloist in concerts such as Last Night of the Proms, Classical Spectacular, Carols by Candlelight and Spectacular Classics. She has performed, in concert, in various venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Paris Auditorium St Germain, Rouen Opera House, St John’s Smiths Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Barbican Concert Hall, Australia House UK, Wigmore Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham and the SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Centre in New York.

Since the age of 11 with a music scholarship to Woodlands Girls Grammar School in Australia, Sky has won several music awards, scholarships and competitions in both Australia and the UK including; Opera Awards Foundation Bursary, GSMD Harold Rosenthal Prize, Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust Bursary, Australian Music Foundation Scholarship, Wingate Scholarship, and the 2011 ROSL Overseas Trophy for the most outstanding musician from overseas, after which she was among a few Australians to be invited by the Queen to attend a reception at Buckingham Palace.

Other significant awards include Winner of The Australian 5MBS Young Performer of the Year, George Boland Scholarship, Friends of State Opera South Australia Travelling Scholarship, Tait Memorial Scholarship, Finalist in The Australian Singing Competition Marianne Mathy Awards, and SA Young Achiever of the Year (Arts section).

Other recent operatic roles include Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte, Alcina/Alcina, Musetta/La Bohème, Katya/Katya Kabanova, Micaëla/Carmen, Dido/Dido and Aeneas, Frau Fluth/Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Madame Lidoine/Dialogues des Carmelites, Abigail/The Crucible.

Recent & Future engagements include concerts with the Hallé Orchestra and Manchester Concert Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the London Mozart Players, Foreign Princess/Rusalka for Garsington Opera and the Edinburgh International Festival, the title role in Fedora for IF Opera, Helmwige/Die Walküre for London Opera Company, all women in Brunnhilde (by Wagner & arr.Kram), Woglinde cvr./Rheingold and Götterdämmerung for Longborough Festival Opera, Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte for State Opera South Australia and Sieglinde/Die Walküre for Saffron Opera Group.

Fedora (If Opera)
(c) Laima Arlauskaite - Tiny Window Studio — Fedora (If Opera) (c) Laima Arlauskaite - Tiny Window Studio

(c) Laima Arlauskaite - Tiny Window Studio

PRESS

“And who could not be persuaded by the soprano Sky Ingram, who dazzled in the title role? She was a striking presence both physically and vocally. Tall, young, with a shock of red hair, as much Hollywood goddess as Russian Princess, she projected powerfully the vicissitudes of the character - by turnes passionate, vengeful and suicidal. Hers is a sumptuous voice that can soar one moment to the top of its range and over the orchestra, the next drop instantly to a beautifully controlled pianissimo. She is rapidly maturing into one of the finest singer-actors of her generation.”

Fedora, If Opera 2023. Jonathan Cross, Opera Magazine, 2023
"Ingram excels in the intensity of the soprano demands as she veers from haughtiness and amour to distress turning into a vengeful rage."

Fedora, If Opera 2023. Mike Smith, Opera Scene
"Sky Ingram was a revelation. Better known as a fine singer of Mozartean repertoire, the soprano appeared to have installed an upgrade to her vocal cords that suggests a shift into heavier roles. On this showing, bring it on."

Rusalka (Garsington Opera)
Mark Valencia, Musical America
"Sky Ingram was brilliantly self-centred, flirty, and elegant as the Foreign Princess, and Ingram brought a lovely sense of amused puzzlement to her treatment of Romaniw’s Rusalka. Ingram was in good voice and made this small role count"

Rusalka (Garsington Opera)
Robert Hugill, Opera Today & Planet Hugill
"A real highlight of the night was Ingram who.. stepped up and seized her moment with a strong vocal performance filled with passion and anger in equal measure."

Title role in Alcina (Opera North)
Mark Davoren, “North West End UK”
"As for Australian soprano, Sky Ingram, who stepped into the role of Alcina.. tackles passion, poise, power and vulnerability, each with equal aptitude: Brava!"

Title role in Alcina (Opera North)
Martin Thomasson “Quays Life”
"Alcina played by Sky Ingram wonderfully portrayed her character with impressive vocals"

Title role in Alcina (Opera North)
Chloe O’Malley “Yeah Lifestyle“
"The cast performs to a uniformly high standard, headed by the dazzling Sky Ingram as Fiordiligi, who has all the vocal attributes needed for this testing soprano role."

Fiordiligi/Cosi fan tutte (English Touring Operc
Scottish Daily Mail
"… soprano Sky Ingram, as Avis, appeared perfectly cast and able to inhabit her role with equal dramatic and vocal persuasion. "

Avis/The Wreckers - Bard SummerScape, New York, USA
Corinna da Fonseca-Wolheim, The New York Times
"The London-based Australian soprano, Sky Ingram, as Avis, above all, created a character who was hotter and more intense than life, an unforgettable star turn…striking with her flowing red hair. Her bright voice filled the hall, always agile enough to negotiate her often athletic lines. "

Avis/The Wreckers - Bard SummerScape New York, USA
Michael Miller, New York Arts
Sky Ingram, in a flawless performance, copes with long, stratospheric lines of vocal writing

Glare/Lea, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Mark Pullinger - Bachtrack

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PRESS

"Ingram excels in the intensity of the soprano demands as she veers from haughtiness and amour to distress turning into a vengeful rage."

"Sky Ingram was a revelation. Better known as a fine singer of Mozartean repertoire, the soprano appeared to have installed an upgrade to her vocal cords that suggests a shift into heavier roles. On this showing, bring it on."

"Sky Ingram was brilliantly self-centred, flirty, and elegant as the Foreign Princess, and Ingram brought a lovely sense of amused puzzlement to her treatment of Romaniw’s Rusalka. Ingram was in good voice and made this small role count"

"A real highlight of the night was Ingram who.. stepped up and seized her moment with a strong vocal performance filled with passion and anger in equal measure."

"As for Australian soprano, Sky Ingram, who stepped into the role of Alcina.. tackles passion, poise, power and vulnerability, each with equal aptitude: Brava!"

"Alcina played by Sky Ingram wonderfully portrayed her character with impressive vocals"

"The cast performs to a uniformly high standard, headed by the dazzling Sky Ingram as Fiordiligi, who has all the vocal attributes needed for this testing soprano role."

"… soprano Sky Ingram, as Avis, appeared perfectly cast and able to inhabit her role with equal dramatic and vocal persuasion. "

"The London-based Australian soprano, Sky Ingram, as Avis, above all, created a character who was hotter and more intense than life, an unforgettable star turn…striking with her flowing red hair. Her bright voice filled the hall, always agile enough to negotiate her often athletic lines. "

Sky Ingram, in a flawless performance, copes with long, stratospheric lines of vocal writing

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