Biography
Hampshire-born soprano Lottie Day is currently in her final year as an undergraduate scholar at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, studying under Louise Crane. She was a finalist in the Stuart Cameron Smith French Song Prize this year, and enjoyed success in her role in RBC's Opera Scenes as Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. In Spring 2022, she performed as Mary Braud in Stephen McNeff’s opera Banished, directed by Daisy Evans.
In March 2022, she created her own project, a performance-lecture experience entitled Colori: An Exploration of Synesthesia and Colour in Music. This involved a presentation featuring artworks and coloured lighting to give an impression of synesthesia as an artistic performance.
In March 2019, Lottie played Erste Knabe in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Past Opera Scenes roles include Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff (2020), Frau Biedermann in Voseček’s Biedermann und die Brandstifter (2019), Harry in Britten's Albert Herring (2019) and
various parts in Monteverdi’s Madrigals of Love and War (2018). An avid choral singer, Lottie is currently employed as a Soprano Choral Scholar at St Philip’s Cathedral in Birmingham.
She has also been a regular member of the RBC's prestigious Chamber Choir, directed by Paul Spicer and Jeffrey Skidmore.
As well as this, Lottie finds much joy in the performance of new music. She was involved with Kinna Whitehead and Alexander Kaniewski’s project The Language of Tapestry, performed in February 2022, and has been a regular soloist in the Young Composer's Project. With composer James Abel, she was the soprano soloist when he won the Philip Bates Prize in 2018.