Camilla Harris
Soprano
Biography
British soprano Camilla Harris is fast establishing herself as an exciting new interpreter of Mozart roles.
She has sung Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte and Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Garsington Opera, reprising Helena at the BBC Proms and for her Opera North début; a Flower Maiden in Parsifal at Glyndebourne and Arminda La Finta Giardiniera in concert with The Mozartists. Other roles include Contessa Le nozze di Figaro for Hampstead Garden Opera, Donna Elvira (cover) – Don Giovanni for Glyndebourne on Tour as well as Aspasia (cover) in Mozart Mitridate for Garsington. She sings Musetta La bohème for the Glyndebourne Autumn Season.
On the concert platform she has sung Beethoven Choral Fantasia with the Philharmonia Orchestra / Long Yu, Stravinsky’s Mass with the London Symphony Orchestra / Simon Halsey, Israelite Woman Esther with The London Handel Orchestra / Adrian Butterfield and First Witch and Spirit Dido & Aeneas with The English Concert / Harry Bicket. Camilla has sung widely as a chorus member and soloist with groups such as The Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner, The Sixteen / Harry Christophers and Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh.
With her duo partner, Natalie Burch, Camilla has appeared at the Oxford Lieder and St Endellion Festivals. Together they recorded Songs of Love and Longing, a recital of Liszt, Rachmaninov and Grieg, for Linn Records.
A former Salisbury Cathedral Girl Chorister Camilla read Music at Durham University and trained at the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy Opera with Raymond Connell and Jonathan Papp. She is a Britten Pears Young Artist and a multiple-award winner.
Camilla Harris is represented for General Management. For all enquiries please contact Caroline Phillips cphillips@caroline-phillips.co.uk
Reviews
Puccini - La Bohème (Musetta) - Glyndebourne
Camilla Harris delivered a remarkably mature Musetta for a soprano so young; confident, feisty and convincingly spirited. Her ‘Quando m’en vo’ was wonderfully coquettish, whilst her lines in the final act were delivered with suitable solemnity. She has a beautifully nuanced soprano voice, and I would love to hear her when she has further enriched her palette with more colours.
OperaWire, 18 October 2025
Britten – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Garsington Opera
The four young lovers are enthusiastically interpreted and very well sung by Caspar Singh, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Camilla Harris and James Newby.
MusicOMH, 17 June 2024
Britten – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Garsington Opera
The quartet of lovers — Caspar Singh’s Lysander, Camilla Harris’s Helena, James Newby’s Demetrius and Stephanie Wake-Edwards’s Hermia — are superb.
The Times, 17 June 2024
Mozart – Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) – Garsington Opera
…the women [sang] radiantly… Leech’s Dorabella will have made her friends, as will the Fiordiligi of Camilla Harris, a young soprano who stepped up from the chorus to assume a role she had been booked only to cover. Harris, too, is a talent to be reckoned with… a singer fully deserving of her place in the sun. Together their voices blended with rapt euphony, while their big individual moments, from Leech’s ‘È amore un Ladroncello’ to Harris’s ‘Come Scoglio’, were thrilling and full of import.
Opera Magazine, August 2022
Mozart – Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) – Garsington Opera
Camilla Harris is an impressively steadfast Fiordiligi, only rarely breaking into smiles. Her ‘Come scoglio’ really sounded as if ‘this lady’s not for turning’, confidently dispatching the aria’s demanding leaps and rising admirably to the challenge of ‘Per pietà’.
Opera Today, June 2022
Mozart – Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) – Garsington Opera
Camilla Harris’s commandingly sung Fiordiligi — remarkably, her stage debut with a major company.
The Times ★★★★, 13 June 2022
Mozart – Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) – Garsington Opera
Singing Fiordiligi with infinite grace, the soprano Camilla Harris becomes the beating heart of this sparkling production…
iNews ★★★★★, 9 June 2022
Mozart – Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) – Garsington Opera
Camilla Harris sings Fiordiligi’s “Come scoglio” with a secure command of its perilous leaps of register, and crucially without putting on airs of eternal chastity.
The Arts Desk ★★★★, 3 June 2022
Mozart – Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) – Garsington Opera
…the ladies were a triumphant trio. Camilla Harris had been the understudy for Fiordiligi … she took over with sensational results. Dignified in manner, elegant in presence and scrupulously musical in interpretation, her arias were high points, fearlessly negotiating the challenges yet producing beautifully soft tone when required.
Music OMH ★★★★, 3 June 2022
Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro (Countess) – Hampstead Garden Opera
…the superb lyricism of Camilla Harris’s Countess, her two big numbers the epitome of Mozartean charm and emotional depth. Obviously a young Countess, her voice has real command; and she was able to bring a light touch to the role at times, too.
Seen and Heard International, 7 November 2021