Sky Ingram

Biography

  • 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

    She is rapidly maturing into one of the finest singer-actors of her generation.

    Jonathan Cross, Opera Magazine

    Fedora (title role), if Opera 2023

    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, 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, Woglinde cvr./Rheingold and Götterdämmerung for Longborough Festival Opera, Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte for State Opera South Australia, Dritte Norn & Gutrune cvr./Götterdämmerung for the Edinburgh Players Opera Group, Sieglinde/Die Walküre and the title role in Salome.

     

  • Sky Ingram ist eine international tätige Sopranistin, die unter großem Beifall der Kritiker am Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, als Lea in der Uraufführung von Glare debütierte und dort noch zweimal auftrat, nämlich als die Göttin Venus in Orfeo von Rossi und als Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia

    Zu weiteren Höhepunkten in Skys bisherigen Karriere zählen u. a. ihr amerikanisches Debut als Avis in The Wreckers bei Bard SummerScape in New York, die Titelrolle in Fedora bei If Opera, die Gräfin in Le nozze di Figaro in Kristiansand (Norwegen), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni bei Garsington Opera und nochmals in Paris im Théâtre des Champs Élysée, die Titelrolle in Rusalka in Valladolid (Spanien) und Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream bei Opera North.

    Sky Ingram ist eine australische Sopranistin englischer, schottischer, und norwegischer Abstammung, die ihre Gesangsstudien und -ausbildung am Elder Conservatorium, an der University of Australia University und and der Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts absolvierte. Später zog sie nach London, wo sie den Opera Course an der Guildhall School of Music & Drama abschloss und ihre Ausbildung dank dem Sponsor Opera North beim National Opera Studio erweitern konnte.

    Sky ist überdies in Oratorien, Konzerten und Liederabenden in ganz Australien, in New York, Norwegen, Frankreich, Deutschland und im Vereinigten Königreich aufgetreten und hat im ABC and BBC Radio gesungen. Sie singt auch regelmäßig bei Veranstaltungen von Raymond Gubbay Ltd. als Gastsängerin und war die Solistin in Vorstellungen wie Last Night of the Proms, Classical Spectacular, Carols by Candlelight and Spectacular Classics. Überdies hat sie in Konzerten an verschiedenen Veranstaltungsorten gesungen; dazu zählen: Royal Albert Hall, im Sydney Opera House, Paris Auditorium St Germain, Rouen Opera House, in St John’s Smiths Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, in der Barbican Concert Hall, im Australia House UK, in der Wigmore Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham und im SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Centre in New York.

    Ihr erstes Musikschulstipendium erhielt Sky mit 11 Jahren an der Woodlands Girls Grammar School in Australien. Seitdem gewann sie in Australien sowohl als auch in England mehrere Musikpreise, Stipendien und Gesangswettbewerbe. Dazu zählen: Opera Awards Foundation Bursary, GSMD Harold Rosenthal Prize, Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust Bursary, Australian Music Foundation Scholarship, Wingate Scholarship. 2011 wurde Sky mit der ROSL Overseas Trophy für die hervorragendste Musikerin aus überseeischen Ländern ausgezeichnet, woraufhin sie und einige andere Australier von Königin Elizabeth II zu einem Empfang im Buckingham Palace eingeladen wurde.
     
    Weitere Preise von Bedeutung waren: Winner of The Australian 5MBS Young Performer of the Year, George Boland Scholarship, Friends of State Opera South Australia Travelling Scholarship, Tait Memorial Scholarship, Finalistin in The Australian Singing Competition Marianne Mathy Awards, und SA Young Achiever of the Year (Arts section).

    Zu ihren letzten Opernrollen gehören u. a. Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Alcina (Titelrolle), Musetta in La Bohème, Katya in Katya Kabanova, Micaëla in Carmen, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Frau Fluth in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmelites, Abigail in The Crucible.

    Jüngste und zukünftige Engagements umfassen Konzerte mit dem Hallé Orchestra und dem Manchester Concert Orchestra, Die fremde Fürstin in Rusalka bei Garsington Opera und im Edinburgh International Festival, die Titelrolle in Fedora bei If Opera, Helmwige in Die Walküre bei London Opera Company, Woglinde cover in Das Rheingold und Götterdämmerung bei Longborough Festival Opera, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte bei State Opera South AustraliaDritte Norn & Gutrune cvr./Götterdämmerung bei Edinburgh Players Opera Group, Sieglinde in Die Walküre und die Titelrolle in Salome.

     

Awards, scholarships and prizes

  • Study Grant, Mastersingers UK, 2023
  • Opera Awards Foundation bursary, 2013
  • Opera North sponsorship, National Opera Studio, 2012-2013
  • Winner, GSMD Harold Rosenthal Prize, 2012
  • Winner, Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust bursary, 2012
  • Winner, Australian Music Foundation Scholarship, 2011
  • Friends of State Opera South Australia Travelling Scholarship, S.A. 2011
  • Winner, Walford Alumni Award 2011
  • Guildhall School of Music and Drama Scholarship, 2011 - 2012
    • The City Livery Club
    • The George and Charlotte Balfour Award
    • The Worshipful Company of Barbers
    • The Leverhulme Trust
  • Winner, Lorna Viol Memorial Prize and Royal Over-Seas League Trophy for the most outstanding musician from overseas, 2011
  • Winner, Tait Memorial Scholarship for an Australian Musician, ROSL Overseas Awards, 2011
  • Finalist, ROSL - vocal section, 2011
  • Wingate Scholarship, 2010-2012
  • Guildhall School of Music and Drama Scholarship, 2010-2011
    • The Worshipful Company of Barbers
    • The City Livery Club
    • The Vandervell Foundation
  • George Boland Scholarship, Elder Conservatorium, 2009
  • Friends of State Opera South Australia Travelling Scholarship, S.A. 2009
  • Winner, Kevin Sullivan Memorial Award; Open Aria Section, Fremantle Eisteddfods, 2009
  • Finalist, The Australian Singing Competition; Marianne Mathy Scholarship, 2008
    • Guildhall School of Music & Drama Award with support from - The Elizabeth Sweeting Award - The Hazell Scholarship Fund
    • Phoebe Patrick Award
    • Nell Pascall Award
    • Universal Music Australia Prize
    • Goethe-Institute Prize
    • Running Bare Prize
    • Haas Award
    • Opera Australia Prize
    • West Australian Symphony Orchestra Award
    • Filipa Ferreira Prize
  • Winner, Kevin Sullivan Memorial Award; Open Aria Section, Fremantle Eisteddfods, 2009
  • Winner, The Coffee Club Arts Award; Channel Nine Young Achiever Awards, S.A., 2008
  • Finalist - Opera Foundation Australia - New York Scholarship, 2008
  • Finalist - The Coffee Club Arts Award; Channel Nine Young Achiever Awards, S.A 2007
  • Winner, Australian 5MBS Young Performer of the Year, 2006
  • Finalist - The Allans Classical Music Awards, 2006
  • Recitals Australia Scholarship, 2005
  • Christ Church Scholarship, South Australia, 2005
  • Winner, Clement Q Williams Lied Competition, 2005
  • Winner, National 5MBS Young Performer of the Year, S.A. Vocal section, 2005
  • National 5MBS Young Performer of the Year, S.A. Vocal section, 2005
  • Mentorship Award; The Helpmann Academy, 2005
  • Music Scholarship to Woodlands Girls Grammar School, 1996-98
  • Music Bursary to Walford College, 1999-2001
  • Winner of various sections in Adelaide Eisteddfods, 2003-06
  • Publications: Who's Who of Australian Women - upcoming young artist, 2007-2013
  • Publication: Who's Who in South Australia - upcoming young artist, 2007 & 2008

Recent opera roles

  • Helmwige Die Walküre (London Opera Company)
  • Fedora Fedora (If Opera)
  • Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia (Royal Opera, Covent Garden)
  • Foreign Princess Rusalka (Garsington Opera)
  • Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Paris, France)
  • Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Garsington Opera, UK)
  • Rusalka Rusalka (Valladolid Opera Project, Spain)
  • Contessa Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro (Kilden Theatre, Kristiansand, Norway)
  • Lea Glare (Royal Opera House)
  • Venus Orpheus (Royal Opera House)
  • Fiordiligi Così fan tutte (English Touring Opera, UK)
  • Alcina Alcina cover (Opera North, UK)
  • Iolanta Iolanta cover (If Opera)
  • Katya Kabanova Katya Kabanova cover (Opera North, UK)
  • Avis The Wreckers (Bard SummerScape, USA)
  • Musetta La bohème (Opera North, UK)
  • Musetta La bohème (English Touring Opera)
  • Helena A Midsummer Night's Dream (Opera North, GSMD, WAAPA)
  • Dido Dido and Aeneas (English Touring Opera)
  • Frau Fluth Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (GSMD)
  • Madame Lidoine Dialogues des Carmelites (GSMD)
  • Emily Our Town (GSMD - UK & European Premiere)
  • Female Chorus (cover) The Rape of Lucretia (BYO)
  • Micaëla Carmen (Alexander Productons)
  • Pamina The Magic Flute (Elder Con.)
  • Clorinda/La Cenerentola (Opera North)
  • Abigail Williams The Crucible (WAAPA - Australian Premiere)
Photo: Tim Dunk Photography
Photo: Tim Dunk Photography

In the comic scenes, Sky Ingram as Venus was the clear winner. With a mane of red hair and long legs, she was the visual image of a screen goddess and vamped it up something rotten.

Robert Hugill, Planet Hugill

Orpheus (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)

Sky Ingram

The star of the show was undoubtedly Sky Ingram in her role of Musetta, Marcello’s flirtatious and temperamental love interest, who was the very definition of bohemian passion.

Anastasia Kennedy, The State of the Arts

La bohème (Opera North)

Sky Ingram