“A voice to follow (in every sense of the word, the voice and the career…)”
- LUDWIG VAN MONTRÉAL
Avery Lafrentz is a Canadian Soprano currently honing her craft at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, UK where she is completing her Artist Diploma on the Opera Course supported by the Rosemary Thayer Award, the Beris Hudson Award, & the Timothy Brennan KC Scholarship. During the 2024-25 season, Avery has sung Lady Billows (Albert Herring), Vitellia (Clemenza di Tito), Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), and La Gioconda. She is currently studying with Marilyn Rees.
This upcoming (2025-2026) and final season at GSMD she will sing the dangerous, yet beautiful Iolanthe (Der Wald by Ethel Smythe), Miss Wingrave (Owen Wingrave) and Ma (Proving Up by Missy Mazzoli).
She will also be a soloist with the London School Symphony Orchestra singingMild und Leise from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in the Barbican Hall in April 2026.
In Der Wald by Ethel Smyth…
“Avery Lafrentz as Iolanthe find a rich emotional depth in [her] aria – Lafrentz finds a cruel determination… It’s emotionally and technically excellent singing.” – Tom Malachi, A Young(ish) Perspective
