Esme Bronwen-Smith

Winner of First Prize at the 2022 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, British mezzo-soprano Esme Bronwen-Smith was a semi-finalist in the 2023 Paris Opera Competition, and a quarter-finalist in both the 2024 Tenor Viñas, and 2021 Veronica Dunne competitions. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Music where she won both the 2020 Lieder Competition and the 2021 Lies Askonas Competition. She has performed a variety of theatrical and operatic roles including Flora in La Traviata (Glyndebourne), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (Glyndebourne Festival cover and Hampstead Garden Opera), Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Waterperry Opera Festival), Angelina in La Cenerentola, Nerone in Agrippina and Marchesa Melibea in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims (English Touring Opera), Irene in Theodora (St Paul’s Sinfonia) and Smeton in Anna Bolena (cover, Longborough). In the 2025/26 Royal Opera Season she appears as Leocasta in Giustino.