Described in the Guardian as having ‘a voice of tempered steel, wrapped in a warm velvet cloak’ Ella Taylor is a soprano with a passion for performing contemporary music and works by women and gender non-conforming artists. Winner of the Second Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier awards, they are a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio.

Highlights in 2024/2025 include Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Staatsoper Hamburg and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte for Nevill Holt Festival/Opera North. Concert work the Studio Ghibli Concert Tour Final with Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Tokyo Dome and the Classic FM Hall of Fame with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, as well as recitals at the Oxford International Song Festival, SongEasel and the recital series ‘Song at Wolfson’.

Recent engagements have included The Activist in the première of Ellen Reid’s The Shell Trial for Dutch National Opera, as well as a return to The Royal Opera, London, as Fourth Maid Elektra. As a regular collaborator with Joe Hisaishi, they have performed Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki in arenas around Europe, as well as making their Tokyo debut last year performing Hisaishi’s The End of the World with Future Orchestra Classics at Suntory Hall. They have performed both Mahler Symphony No. 2 and Symphony No. 4 with the Philharmonia Orchestra (Bold Tendencies Festival) and Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra respectively. For the Bold Tendencies Festival they have also performed Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

Ella Taylor is a keen collaborator and recitalist, making a dedicated effort to work with and perform works by people underrepresented in classical music, as well as working with composers and librettists in the creation of new, LGBT+ focused work. They have given talks about navigating a career as a trans opera singer for various companies and magazines including the Royal Opera House Engender Festival, Place and Space: a TECHNE student-led conference, and Opera Now. A film with Trans Voices Choir (part of London Contemporary Voices) has been released on Guardian Films, which Ella is a founding member of. They were also a soloist at the inaugural Classical Pride at the Barbican.

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