Leah Bell is a young Australian soprano currently completing her Master of Music Studies (Opera Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she also earned her Bachelor of Music Performance in Classical Voice. She studies under the esteemed Maree Ryan AM.
Throughout her time at the Conservatorium, Leah has been recognised with numerous scholarships, including the Kevin and Margaret Duffy Scholarship, Bud Brown Memorial Award, PATIM Music Fund Award, Patricia Long Music Scholarship, Greenburg-Gurney Jenson Fund Award, and the Peter Davidson Music Scholarship.
Leah’s recent performance highlights reflect her growing reputation as a dynamic and expressive young artist. She has appeared in the Sydney Opera Society Aria Concert, SCM Opera Scenes Concert, SCM Lunchbreak Concert Series, Art Song Concert, Con Lieder Series, Opera’s Heroes and Villains, Croydon Crescendo Concert Series, and Liederfest. Leah has also performed in major ensemble works, including the Sydney Conservatorium’s Whitacre and Hindson Wind Symphony concert, and Haydn’s Nelson Mass with the Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra.
Her operatic credits include her role in Don Giovanni with Concordia Ensemble and her portrayal of Mrs Waa in Parrwang Lifts the Sky, an all-Australian opera by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO. Leah is currently preparing to perform as Morphée in Jacques Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers, a 2025 co-production between NIDA and the Sydney Conservatorium.
Equally at home on the musical theatre stage, Leah has played dual roles (Mrs Hatch and Violet) in the stage adaptation of It’s a Wonderful Life, the title role in the original musical Take a Bite, and appeared in the delightfully eccentric Little Shop of Horrors.
