Cleo Lee-McGowan
Soprano
In 2024, Australian soprano Cleo Lee-McGowan competed in the final rounds of The Belvedere Competition and Operalia. Cleo’s 2023/24 season began with her debut at English National Opera as First Niece in Peter Grimes before covering Soeur Constance in Barrie Kosky’s Dialogues des Carmélites at Norwegian National Opera, where she debuted in 2023 as Juno in Orfeus i Underverdenen.
Cleo maintains an ongoing relationship with the Glyndebourne Festival; she appeared as First Bridesmaid and covered Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro as a Jerwood Young Artist in 2022. The following year, she returned to Glyndebourne as the soprano soloist in Haydn’s The Creation and covered Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Cleo’s past performances include solo appearances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. A Guildhall School of Music and Drama graduate, she has received numerous awards, including the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship and was a Scholar with Melba Opera Trust from 2017 to 2019.