Biography

Australian spinto soprano Kylie Watt has completed her Bachelor of Music, Diploma of Education, AMusA, LMusA, Graduate Diploma of Opera, Masters of Music Performance and Fellowship in Music Performance through Trinity College.

Kylie debuted at the Royal Opera House in December 2017 in Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. For Valentine’s Day 2018 she performed for Rihanna and Prince Hassan Kameel for a private dinner for just the two of them. She has performed at Kensington Palace, for the Royal Highnesses, Princess Anne and Prince Michael of Kent, several times on request for the Duke of Bedford, as a soloist at the Rimplerock music festival in Hasselt for 40,000 with Paul Potts, for James Dyson 70th, for the pre-match entertainment for the Davis Cup and for the Barbarians.

Her opera roles have included Leonore (Fidelio), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Mother (Hansel and Gretel), Suor Angelica (Suor Angelica), Senta (Die Fliegende Höllander) and Tatyana (Eugene Onegin). Kylie has been mentored by Dame Josephine Barstow, a recipient of the Musicians Benevolent Fund Professional Development, a finalist in the ‘Singer of the Year’, won the Harold Fisher Opera Scholarship, twice awarded the Carden Bursary and the Toyne Sewell Scholarship.

Kylie performed Musetta (La Boheme -Melbourne City Opera), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte - Opera Melbourne), Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly - Opera Melbourne), Edith Sitwell and Duchess of Devonshire (English Eccentrics - Melbourne Festival). In 2005 she covered the Plaintiff (Trial by Jury) for Opera Australia and performed in the chorus for The Mikado and HMS Pinafore. She has represented Australia singing with a traditional Indonesian Gamelan Orchestra in Jogakarta, Indonesia. She performed Haydn’s Little Organ Mass with Monash Chorale, Kodaly’s Missa Brevis and Haydn’s Nelson Mass with Melbourne Chorale. She has performed in many corporate functions throughout Australia, including for Siemens, Red Cross and was sponsored in 2004 by Honda Australia. 

Kylie was vocal coach to James Corden and singing assistant to director David Frankel on feature film ‘One Chance’. She also performed the role of Aida in the film and sang on the sound track. In 2014 she was the singing advisor and conductor on set to Helena Bonham Carter and Carey Mulligan in the movie ‘Suffragette’. Kylie coached Max Irons on set in Vienna for the movie ‘Woman in Gold’ and performed the opera role Sieglinde in the same movie. In 2017 Kylie worked on the movie ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ with Mike Newell. She recorded ‘Darn that dream’ in Abbey Road studios and then played the jazz singer in their big embassy scene. The same year Kylie went to Budapest to play an opera singer on set with Keira Knightly on the movie ‘Colette’, released in 2019.

She toured Indonesia performing Serpina (La Serva Padrona). At the Kammeroper in Vienna she performed Maria (I due Timidi). She has given concerts in Luxemburg, Moscow, Cologne, Budapest, Paris, Sydney, Portafino, Brussels, Barcelona, Johannesburg, Amsterdam, Athens, Cyprus, St. Moritz, Jerez de la Frontera, Dubai, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Belfast, and Lorgues.