Ellie Neate trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama opera course. She recently performed Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro with Wild Arts, directed (in her directorial debut) by Danielle de Niese. Ellie’s other operatic roles include First Daughter Akhnaten, Celia Iolanthe, cover Mabel The Pirates of Penzance, cover Elsie Maynard The Yeomen of the Guard (ENO), cover Masha Four Sisters at The Royal Ballet and Opera, Papagena The Magic Flute Lite, cover Tytania A Midsummer Night's Dream, (Opera North), Sylviane The Merry Widow (Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park), Zerlina Don Giovanni (Teatro Lorenzo da Ponte, Vittorio Veneto), Lisa La sonnambula, Elisa Il re pastore, Cleopatra Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra (Buxton International Festival), Rosmene Imeneo with Julian Perkins and the Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Galatea Acis and Galatea, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Milica Svadba, Maria Bertram Mansfield Park (Waterperry Opera Festival), Cunegonde Candide (Blackheath Halls) and Gretel Hansel and Gretel (British Youth Opera). 

In concert she has performed in recital with Florent Mourier (‘Donizetti and Friends’) for Opera Rara, Lisette La Rondine with Opera Rara in Barbican Hall, Tom Adès’ ‘Five Eliot Landscapes’ with Thomas Eeckhout at Oxford Lieder Festival, was broadcast live from the Wigmore Hall for the BBC, new works with Thomas Eeckhout and Iain Burnside at the Ludlow Song Festival, appeared on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune performing Pauline Viardot, Carmina Burana with the London Symphony Chorus at Barbican Hall, for ENO Does Eurovision, and recorded the soundtracks for the Disney+ television series Rivals. 

Ellie recently made her studio opera recording debut as Lisette in La Rondine with Opera Rara and The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlo Rizzi, which will be released in October 2026. Upcoming projects include ‘Dinner with Handel’ with Julian Perkins at the London Handel Festival, Mahler 4 and Handel’s Messiah with Wild Arts, Hansel und Gretel with Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra, and covering Zerlina for Opera North. 

Ellie’s studies at the Guildhall were generously supported by The Fishmongers’ Company and Help Musicians UK.

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