Renata Skarelyte

Born in Lithuania, Renata Skarelyte studied at the Vilnius Music Academy followed by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Patricia MacMahon, and at the National Opera Studio supported by a Peter Stuyvesant Award and The Friends of Covent Garden. She was a prizewinner at the National Mozart Competition (1996) and won the Madeline Finden Trust Award (1997). Her repertory includes Sesto, Madame Larina (Lithuanian National Opera student performances), Lucretia, Clara in Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery, the title role in Serse, Madame Popova in Walton’s The Bear (RSAMD), Carmen (Clonter Opera), Amneris (Royal Albert Hall), Ecuba in La Didone (Scottish Opera Early Music Consort), Wowkle in La fanciulla del West (Wexford Festival), Waltraute in Die Walküre (ENO, semi-staged) and Adalgisa (Pavilion Opera). She is a member of the Royal Opera Chorus and has sung solo roles in Suor Angelica, Kát’a Kabanová and Norma, and most recently, Annina (La traviata) and Tetka (Jenůfa).