"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
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.
Repertoire
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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
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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)