New Zealand Soprano, Polly Ott, holds a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from the University of Canterbury, where she studied with Dame Malvina Major in her hometown of Christchurch. Polly Ott was an Emerging Artist with New Zealand Opera before moving to Berlin, where she completed a Master of Arts in Opera with Distinction with Prof. Julie Kaufmann, Frank Hilbrich and Axel Bauni at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Masterclasses with Gerd Uecker, Grace Bumbry and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa complete her formal training.

Her engagements have already led the young soprano to perform at the New Zealand Opera, the Theater Magdeburg, the Südwestfalen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich and the Neuköllner Oper Berlin. Polly Ott performs with the Kammeroper München and has sung at festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Beethoven Festival Bonn.

Polly Ott’s repertoire ranges from Baroque to Modern. Her most notable roles include the Mozart characters QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and PAMINA in Die Zauberflöte, BLONDE from Die Entführung aus dem Serail, DESPINA from Così fan tutte, MADAME HERZ from Der Schauspieldirektor and BARBARINA from Le nozze di Figaro, BERTA in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, CLARICE in Il mondo della luna by Haydn, THE BOY FROM NEW YORK in the world premiere of The True Story of King Kong by Jeffery Ching, ANNE FRANK in the mono-opera The Diary of Anne Frank by Grigori Frid and FIRST FAIRY/ NIGHT from The Fairy Queen by Purcell.

Her concert repertoire includes works such as Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, Weihnachtsoratorium Bach, Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate and Mass in C Minor, In furore iustissime irae by Vivaldi to Herzgewächse from Schönberg, Morton Feldman’s Three Voices and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mendelssohn.