Canadian soprano Avery Lafrentz is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Opera Course and was the recipient of the Rosemary Thayer Award, Beris Hudson Award, and the Timothy Brennan KC Scholarship. She studies with Marilyn Rees.

Operatic roles include Iolanthe Der Wald, Witch Strings of Rebellion, Miss Wingrave Owen Wingrave (Guildhall School, London); Title role Suor Angelica (Greve in Chianti, Tuscany); Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Anna Maurant Street Scene, Vitellia Clemenza di Tito, Governess Turn of the Screw, and Older Sister Come Closer (Opera McGill, Montréal); and Robin Northern Lights Dream (Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, Toronto). Avery has also appeared in scenes as Vitellia La Clemenza di Tito, Lady Billows Albert Herring, Title role La Gioconda, Der Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier (Guildhall School, London).

In concert she has appeared as a soloist with the UBU contemporary Ensemble (Guildhall School), the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Canada), and Paul Carr’s Requiem for an Angel(Regina Philharmonic Choir). She has also been a recitalist with Dylan Perez and Nicky Spence OBE, a concert version of ‘Les Misérables’ with Cameron Mackintosh Productions, participated as a professional fellow at Song Fest in Los Angeles, California as a grant winner from the Art Song Foundation of Canada.

A true scholar of her craft, Avery holds a Master of Music in Voice and Opera Performance from McGill University where she was a Wirth Family Fellow. McGill University also employed her as a Research Assistant in the Schulich School of Music. She holds two Bachelor degrees in Arts & Science, and Music, from the University of Toronto where she was awarded the Douglas Bodle - St. Andrew’s Graduating Award.

She would like to thank her teachers, coaches, and mentors for their generous support along the way including:

Marilyn Rees, Dominic Wheeler, Martin Lloyd-Evans, Liz Marcus, Elizabeth Rowe, Elizabeth Koch, Patrick Hansen, John Mac Master, Michael McMahon, Stephen Hargreaves, Elizabeth MacDonald, Jo Greenaway, Janice Chapman, Michael Pugh, Dominique Labelle, Darryl Edwards, Stephanie Weiss, Robert Loewen, Evanne Wilhelm,

& the one who started it all …
her mom, Arlene.