Dublin born mezzo-soprano Aebh Kelly is currently based at the Staatsoper Hamburg as a member of the International Opera Studio.  This season Aebh will make numerous role debuts including Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos), Anna (Maria Stuarda), Schenkwirtin (Boris Godunov), Sandmännchen (Hänsel und Gretel) and Wowkle (La Fanciulla del West). Aebh is a graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music where she achieved a first class honours degree.

Whilst still an undergraduate Aebh competed in the final round of the international singing competition, Neue Stimmen.  Over the years Aebh has worked closely with Irish National Opera and featured in a variety of productions including the 20 Shots of Opera and A Thing I Cannot Name. More recently she returned to INO and made her role debut as Flora in Verdi’s La Traviata. Aebh was awarded second prize at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition 2022 as well as the Dublin Song Series Prize and the Dermot Troy Prize.

Commencing in 2021, Aebh became a Mascarade Emerging Artist in Florence, Italy where her place was generously sponsored by Maria Manetti-Shrem.  During her time there she performed extracts from Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola at Teatro La Fenice, Popova in Walton’s The Bear at Lerici Music Festival and made her German debut as Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.  Aebh also attended the prestigious Georg Solti Accademia in the summer of 2024.