Douglas Kelly
Tenor
Douglas Kelly is an internationally performing tenor with extensive experience in opera, oratorio and as a recitalist.
He won a 2025 Green Room Award for his performance as Prunier in Victorian Opera’s La Rondine (The Swallow); he was a prize winner at the 2018 Australian Herald Sun Aria and the National Liederfest in 2018 and 2019; and was a 2024 Emerging Artist with Victorian Opera. Douglas was also nominated for Green Room Awards for his performances in Ulmann’s Kaiser von Atlantis and Kats-Chernin’s Iphis.
His other operatic credits include Verdi’s Nabucco (Ismaele), Williamson’s English Eccentrics (Beau Brummell), Cesti’s Orontea (Corindo), Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno D’Ulisse In Patria (Anfinomo and Eurimaco), Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro (Basilio), Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (Sellem), Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi (Gherardo), Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas) and Jonathon Dove’s Mansfield Park (Henry Crawford).
He has been described as ‘charismatic in voice’ and ‘powerfully convincing’ (ArtsHub), ‘a splendid Tenor’ and ‘suitably fresh and ardent of voice’ (Limelight).
