Audrey Welsh, mezzo-soprano, is a native of Houston, Texas, and a second-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist in 2025-26. Last season, her roles included Lola in Cavalleria rusticana, Clotarco in Armida, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and the Curator in Woman with Eyes Closed. This season, her roles include Lucy in Fellow Travelers and Meg Page in Falstaff.

This summer, Welsh returned to Des Moines Metro Opera as an Apprentice Artist singing Lapák and covering the Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen. Last season at Des Moines, Welsh made her mainstage debut as the Page of Herodias in Strauss’ Salome. Welsh was a Knoxville District Winner in the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and a Houston District/3rd Place Gulf Coast Region Winner in the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.

Welsh is a 2024 graduate of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where she received a Master of Music in Voice Performance, under the tutelage of Nova Thomas. She is also an alumna of the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Music in Voice and a Bachelor of Arts in Italian Studies.

Previous credits include: Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), Tolomeo (Giulio Cesare), Sibella Hallward (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder), Mae Jones (Street Scene), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Petra (A Little Night Music), Mrs. Herring (Albert Herring), and Audrey (Little Shop of Horrors).

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