Operatic mezzo soprano

Grace Lovelass is an operatic mezzo soprano whose roles include Adalgisa (Norma), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), the Sorceress (Dido & Aeneas) and Flora (La Traviata). She appears regularly as a soloist with choral societies and as part of festival programmes, most notably Purbeck Art Weeks in her home county of Dorset. During the coronavirus pandemic, Grace joined the cast for the Virtual Opera Project's online production of L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. She also began vlogging about life as a singer, triathlete and yogi under the banner Operacise. Earlier this year, she performed under the direction of Pamela Howard OBE in singspiel scenario The Ballad of the Cosmo Café. Grace studied opera at the Associated Studios, spent three summers in the Dorset Opera Festival chorus and has won cups for opera, oratorio and Lieder at the Bournemouth Music Competitions Festival. She has a degree in Classics from King's College London, is a trained ballroom dancer and is preparing for her first Ironman in 2021.