Abigail Kelly

Abigail Kelly gained a postgraduate diploma in operatic studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and completed her undergraduate studies at Birmingham Conservatoire with a first class honours degree. She has won a series of Awards and in 2008 was nominated in the music category at the International Women of Excellence Awards. With English Touring Opera she has performed as Despina (Cosi fan tutte), Fido (Paul Bunyan), Naiad (Rusalka), Cobweb (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Bridesmaid (The Marriage of Figaro). Internationally,  Abigail has performed as a featured artist with Opera South Africa and the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and has given recitals in Kingston – Jamaica, Hungary, Montserrat, the Cayman Islands and Germany. Most recently she held a recital of traditional African American spirituals with a string quartet in Władysławowo, Poland. Abigail’s has performed widely in new music and also commissioned a one woman operatic cabaret entitled Swan Song: Memoirs of a Dudley Diva, a cabaret style operatic monologue charting the rise of fictitious opera star Deirdre Daniels. A proud Birmingham woman, Abigail has also performed at Birmingham’s first commemoration of Emancipation day and at the 2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall celebrations of Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of independence.