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 with renowned singing teacher Maree Ryan AM.
During her studies, 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 performance highlights reflect her growing reputation as a dynamic and expressive emerging artist. She has appeared in the Sydney Opera Society Aria Concert, SCM Opera Scenes, SCM Lunchbreak Concert Series, Art Song Concert, Con Lieder Series, Opera’s Heroes and Villains, the Croydon Crescendo Concert Series, and Liederfest. She has also featured 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 recent operatic roles include Morphée in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers (NIDA/Sydney Conservatorium, 2025), performances in Don Giovanni with Concordia Ensemble, and Mrs Waa in Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO’s all-Australian opera Parrwang Lifts the Sky.
Equally at home on the musical theatre stage, Leah has performed the dual roles of 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.
