Louisa Stuart-Smith
Mezzo Soprano
British Mezzo-Soprano Louisa Stuart-Smith is a Samling Artist, an Edinburgh International Festival Rising Star of Voice (2026), a Garsington Opera Alvarez Emerging Artist (2025) and a Josephine Baker Trust Artist. This season, she made her Royal Ballet and Opera debut singing in Handel’s Giustino in the Linbury Theatre; she covered three roles in Tales of Love and Loss at the Royal Ballet and Opera (Olga in Four Sisters, Maid in Making Arrangements and Chorus in The Departure); and she sang the role of Dorabella in Longhope Opera’s Così Fan Tutte. Her recent concert work as a soloist includes oratorio performances with the London Mozart Players and Orpheus Sinfonia; Baroque recitals with the Carnegie Ensemble from the BBC Symphony Orchestra; and art song performed with James Baillieu and Louise Alder at the Edinburgh International Festival. Upcoming, she will sing as a Finalist in the Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition in Germany and as a Semi-Finalist in the Cesti Baroque Singing Competition at the Innsbruck Festwochen der Alten Musik.
Louisa studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for the MPerf and Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance under the tutelage of Professor Yvonne Kenny. Louisa is grateful to have been a Sidney Perry Foundation Scholar, a Guildhall School Trust Scholar and generously supported by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors. Louisa is also a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was a choral scholar.
Competition successes include First Prize in the Chris Treglown Foundation Awards (2025); a runner-up prize (Encouragement Award) in the Maryland District of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition (2024); winner of the Audience Prize in the Chartered Surveyors’ Vocal Competition (2024); Runner-Up in the Final of the London Bach Society’s Bach Singers Prize Competition (2024) and Semi-Finalist in both the VIII Concurs Internacional de Cant Josep Palet in Barcelona and the Royal Overseas League Competition.
