"Cleopatra gets the dazzle. And at Buxton there was plenty of it from a captivating young soprano, Ellie Neate, who shone dramatically and vocally... she’s an artist with a future.” Opera Now 2022

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For the 24/25 season, Ellie will make her debut with Scottish Opera (role tba) and Opera North, where she will perform Papagena in The Magic Flute Lite. She will also sing the role of Ellie in The Man in the Moon for the Family Sunday programme at the Royal Opera House, give a ‘Donizetti and Friends’ salon recital with Opera Rara, cover Tytania and Papagena with Opera North, and return to the English National Opera to cover the role of Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance.

In 2023/24 Ellie performed as Celia in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe for the ENO, premiered the role of Beatrice, Duchess of Padua in The Duchess of Padua, worked with Garsington Opera for their 2024 OperaFirst A Midsummer Night’s Dream programme, and performed as Aline in Charles Court Opera’s The Sorcerer and Gianetta in The Gondoliers for the National G&S Company. In 2022/23 Ellie sang Daughter 1 in Philip Glass’ Akhnaten at ENO, Elisa in Mozart’s Il Re Pastore and Lisa in Bellini’s La Sonnambula for Buxton International Festival, Galatea in Handel’s Acis and Galatea and second woman in Dido and Aeneas for Waterperry Opera Festival, Cunegonde in Candide for Blackheath Halls Community Opera, and covered the role of Elsie Maynard in The Yeomen of the Guard for ENO.

For the 2021/22 season she played Cleopatra Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra for Buxton International Festival, and Milica Svadba and Maria Bertram Mansfield Park for Waterperry Opera Festival. Other opera experience includes Gretel Hansel and Gretel for British Youth Opera/ Silent Opera, for which she won the Basil A Turner Award, and Lucy The Telephone, La Fée Cendrillon (Viardot), and Laurette Le docteur Miracle (Bizet) at the Guildhall School.

In concert Ellie has sung Adès’ Five Eliot Landscapes at Oxford Lieder Festival, with Nicky Spence and Julius Drake in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast from Wigmore Hall, Carmina Burana with the London Symphony Chorus in Barbican Hall, for the album launch of Folded Landscapes by composer Erland Cooper, and with the ENO for ENO does Eurovision.

Her studies on the Guildhall opera course were generously supported by The Fishmongers’ Company and Help Musicians UK.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Repertoire

  • Purcell Dido and Aeneas Second Woman

    Handel Acis and Galatea Galatea

    Hasse Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra Cleopatra

    Mozart Il Re Pastore Elisa

    Le nozze di Figaro Susanna*

    Die Zauberflöte Papagena (+ english)

    Bellini La Sonnambula Lisa

    Donizetti Rita Rita

    Bizet Le docteur Miracle Laurette

    Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance Mabel

    Iolanthe Celia

    The Yeomen of the Guard Elsie

    The Gondoliers Gianetta

    The Sorcerer Aline

    Humperdinck Hansel und Gretel Gretel (English, German*)

    Viardot Cendrillon La Fée

    Puccini La Rondine Lisette *

    MenottiThe Telephone Lucy

    Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tytania

    The Turn of the Screw Flora

    Bernstein Candide Cunegonde

    Glass Akhnaten First Daughter

    Dove Mansfield Park Maria Bertram

    Sokolović Svadba Milica

    Pease Concrete Music Aisling Bronstow

    Bascom TEXT Denise

    Lambert The Duchess of Padua Duchess

    * role in preparation

  • Adams El Niño*

    Grand Pianola Music (soprano I)

    Andriessen De Staat

    Bach Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV 51

    Magnificat (soprano I and II)

    St John Passion

    St Matthew Passion

    Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten BWV 202

    Gloria in excelsis deo BWV 191

    Barber Knoxville

    Beethoven Symphony No. 9

    Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem

    Handel Theodora*

    Messiah

    Laudate pueri

    Haydn The Creation

    Missa in Angustiis (Nelson)

    Missa Sancti Nicolai

    Mahler Symphony No. 4

    Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 (Vespro della Beata Vergine)

    Mozart Coronation Mass

    Exsultate, jubilate

    Great Mass in C minor (soprano I)

    Requiem in D minor

    Orff Carmina Burana

    Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music

    Symphony No. 3

    Vivaldi Gloria (soprano I)