Australian soprano Bella Marslen is a member of the Royal College of Music’s International Opera Studio, where she studies with Janis Kelly as an Andrew Treagus scholar, a Mimi and Colin Watts scholar and a Tait Memorial Trust awardee. She was a Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange artist in 2024 and is a current Josephine Baker Trust artist. Recent awards include the Tait Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Australian Musician, the Audience Prize at the 2026 Royal Overseas League Final, and the Cuthbert Smith Prize at the 2026 Lies Askonas Competition. Her opera roles have included First Wood Sprite (Rusalka) for West Australian Opera, and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Angel (Seven Angels), Vixen (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Serpetta (La finta giardiniera) for the Royal College of Music.
Australian soprano Bella Marslen is a member of the Royal College of Music’s International Opera Studio, where she studies with Janis Kelly as an Andrew Treagus scholar, a Mimi and Colin Watts scholar and a Tait Memorial Trust awardee. She was a Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange artist in 2024 and is a current Josephine Baker Trust artist. Recent awards include the Tait Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Australian Musician, the Audience Prize at the 2026 Royal Overseas League Final, and the Cuthbert Smith Prize at the 2026 Lies Askonas Competition. Her opera roles have included First Wood Sprite (Rusalka) for West Australian Opera, and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Angel (Seven Angels), Vixen (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Serpetta (La finta giardiniera) for the Royal College of Music.