Lotte Betts-Dean

Lotte Betts-Dean is an Australian mezzo soprano based in the UK with a wide ranging repertoire and a passion for curation, programming and collaborative project development. Praised for her “irrepressible sense of drama and unmissable, urgent musicality” (The Guardian) and “arrestingly opulent voice” (Gramophone), Lotte is equally at home in chamber music, art song, contemporary repertoire of all kinds, early music, opera and narration. Lotte is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, an Ambassador for Donne UK — an organization supporting women in music — and won Young Artist of the Year at the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.

Lotte is a regular at major festivals and venues across the UK, Australia and Europe, including Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Aldeburgh Festival, Oxford Song, West Cork Chamber Music and Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and operatic credits in baroque, 20th century and contemporary opera include Grand Théâtre de Genève, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nevill Holt Festival and State Opera of South Australia. Recent recordings have been released on Delphian Records (Stuart MacRae, Arthur Keegan) Another Timbre (Catherine Lamb) NAXOS (Phillipos Tsalahouris) Divine Art Métier (Michael Finnissy) and BIS (Brett Dean) with further albums due for release on Platoon (Schubert) and Delphian (Britten). Lotte is represented worldwide by Askonas Holt.