Abigail Kelly

Abigail Kelly is an English soprano opera and concert singer.

Kelly was raised in Birmingham, England. She had an interest in the performing arts from a very young age, and cites her experiences at a dance school in Birmingham as having had a formative impact on her life. She completed her undergraduate studies at Birmingham Conservatoire with a first class honours degree studying under Maureen Brathwaite. Whilst at the Conservatoire she was awarded "a First Class Bachelor of Music degree, the Robert Gahan Award for achievement by a first-year singer; and the highest marks in her year". Kelly has also won the Leamington Spa Festival's Rae Woodland opera competition, and received additional financial assistance to further her operatic training from the Peter Moores Foundation, English Touring Opera and Chris Ball. Following her undergraduate studies, Kelly completed her Post Graduate Diploma course in operatic studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow under the tuition of Helen Lawson.

Kelly's oratorio performances include Mozart's Vespers and Mass in C minor, Haydn's The Creation, John Rutter's Mass of the Children and Handel's Messiah. Her operatic roles include Amour in Rameau's Pygmalion, Helena and Juno in Purcell's The Fairy Queen, and Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Kelly has toured with British Youth Opera in Italy, France and London, performing in the choruses of La bohème, Don Giovanni and Eugene Onegin.