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LIVIA BRASH

SOPRANO

BIOGRAPHY

Livia Brash is an Emerging Artist with Melbourne Opera as part of the 2024-25 Richard Divall Program. In 2025 she covered the role of Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) with the company in their historic performance at the Royal Exhibition Building under the baton of Anthony Negus, and made her debut in the title role of Rusalka for Boroondara Art's Opera in the Park.

In 2024, she covered Musetta (La Boheme) for Melbourne Opera, and was praised for her "full, rich rounded soprano" (Classic Melbourne) singing the role of La Zelatrice in Suor Angelica, a production that won the 2024 Opera Chaser Award for Outstanding Opera in Concert. That year, Livia was also featured as a "Young Star of Australian Opera" at the Sydney Carols in the Domain for an audience of 50 000 people and broadcast live on national television. She was previously based in Germany for five years, where she was a member with Düsseldorf Lyric Opera, appeared as Sieglinde in Dramatic Voices Berlin's film of Die Walküre and was sponsored by the Wagner Society NSW.

"Australian soprano Livia Brash has a richly upholstered and luxuriantly coloured soprano and she exhibited range, strength and nuance, rising with considerable power in the ensembles and showing stamina in arias whose tessitura is frequently high…

Brash’s was an impressive performance of considerable commitment and accomplishment,

and one from which she clearly derived enormous pleasure and fulfillment."

- Opera Today, London

Livia attended the prestigious Georg Solti Accademia in Italy, where she was under the tutelage of mentors such as Maestro Richard Bonynge AC CBE. During her time in Europe, she performed the title role of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda as part of the London Bel Canto Festival with the London City Philharmonic Orchestra and appeared in recital in London. She was set to make her debut in title role of Verdi's Aida at the WIN Entertainment Centre Stadium in Australia (cancelled)

In the year before she relocated to Germany, Livia made five role debuts, appearing in the title roles Alcina and Tosca, Mimi (La Bohème), and toured Australia as Rosina/Bertha swing (Il Barbiere di Siviglia). The same year, she also made solo appearances with the Canberra Symphony, Lake Macquarie Philharmonic, Willoughby Symphony and Central Coast Philharmonic orchestras.

She has performed as a soloist with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and orchestra at City Recital Hall Sydney, the Canberra Choral Society and Canberra Wind Symphony for their Last Night at the Proms event at Albert Hall, and the Christmas Eve service at Sydney Town Hall. During her time as a Young Artist with Pacific Opera, she performed at the Sydney Opera House and the Chatswood Concourse.

In addition to her significant stage experience, Livia has also won several awards from Australia's most prestigious singing competitions. She won the Opera Foundation for young Australians Dalwood-Wylie AIMS Award, and the AIMS Sundell Award, which allowed her to receive tuition at the Vienna State Opera. She was also a finalist in the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Competition two years in a row, coming third and second place respectively, as well as being named a finalist in the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition.

Livia holds a Masters of Music Studies (Opera) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she was the recipient of the Geoffrey Rothwell Scholarship and the Joan Bonamy Scholarship. She completed a Bachelor of Music (Classical Voice) from the Australian National University.