Dublin born mezzo-soprano Aebh Kelly is currently based at the Staatsoper Hamburg as a member of the International Opera Studio. In the 2024/25 season Aebh will make numerous role debuts including Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos) in a new production
under the baton of Kent Nagano, Anna Kennedy (Maria Stuarda), a second premiere conducted by Antonio Fogliani and numerous revivals including Schenkwirtin (Boris Godunov), Sandmännchen (Hänsel und Gretel), Blumenmädchen 2 (Parsifal) 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 and studied with Virginia Kerr and Dearbhla Collins.

During her undergraduate degree, Aebh qualified to compete in the final round of the international singing competition, Neue Stimmen where Brian Dickie, opera aficionado and former director general of Lyric Opera Chicago, lauded her as ‘...a
remarkable young singer.’

For the 2020/2021 season Aebh joined the Irish National Opera’s opera studio where she became the youngest ever studio member. She 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. In the summer of 2024 Aebh attended the prestigious Georg Solti Accademia as well as making her role debut as Dido in Dido & Aeneas in a co-production with Opera Collective Ireland and Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg.