About

Rebecca Hart is a French-Australian Mezzo-Soprano from Sydney. She is currently based in London, where she is a member of Royal Academy Opera studying under Susan Waters and Jonathan Papp. Her studies are generously supported by the Mills Williams Foundation Award, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust, and Help Musicians’ Sybil Tutton Award.

In 2021, she completed an Artist Master’s at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, her studies were kindly supported by Marianne Falk and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. 

She was the 2020 recipient of the Dame Nellie Melba Scholarship, the Annie McFarling Opera Scholarship and the Patrick and Vivian Award with Melba Opera Trust and a 2018/2019 Young Artist with Pacific Opera.

Rebecca’s operatic roles include Polinesso in Handel’s Ariodante, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Baba the Turk in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Clarina in La Cambiale di Matrimonio (all with Royal Academy Opera), the title role in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (Pacific Opera), and Handel’s Radamisto (The Apollo Opera Collective). She has appeared as Prince Orlofsky in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and as Ramiro in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera with Operantics. She performed Endimione in Cavalli’s La Calisto and Third Spirit in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the Sydney Conservatorium Opera Studio. Other operatic engagements include La Voix in Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffman (Pacific Opera), The Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (The Other Theatre)  and Lady Jane in G&S’s Patience (G&S Opera Society Sydney). Rebecca’s repertoire also encompasses a wide and varied selection of art song and standard choral works. A keen educator, she has been teaching both singing and piano for over 9 years in her studio and various schools. 

She was a finalist in the 2019 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition and was the recipient of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Award, Pasqualina Lipari Prize, Nelly Apt Scholarship, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Prize and Audience Prize.