TIVOLI TRELOAR

MEZZO-SOPRANO

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Mezzo-soprano Tivoli Treloar is pursuing her Artist Diploma in Opera Studies at The Juilliard School. In 2025, she earned her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School as a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship and the William Schuman Commencement Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership. This season, Treloar sings Nerone in Handel’s Agrippina with Juilliard Opera and the alto solo in Handel’s Messiah with the Orlando Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Dream Orchestra. She will also be a featured soloist in an “Opera Rara Liederabend” prepared by Carlo Rizzi, the “New York Festival of Song @ Juilliard” concert with Steven Blier, and “Carnegie Hall presents Juilliard at Zankel Hall,” in collaboration with composer Caroline Shaw and the Juilliard 415 Baroque Ensemble. This summer, she joins Opera Theatre of St. Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist, covering the title role in La Cenerentola and Flora in La traviata. Then, she joins Aspen Opera Theater Festival as a Renée Fleming Artist, singing Virginia Woolf in Kevin Puts’ The Hours.

In past seasons with Juilliard Opera, Treloar has sung Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Erismena in Erismena, and Dido in Melinda Wagner’s NO TROUBLE: A Response to Dido's Lament. She has covered Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Meg Page in Falstaff, and Sesto in La clemenza di Tito. Treloar has also performed with various festivals, including L’Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Aspen Opera Theater, Opera Saratoga, Wolf Trap Opera, and Music Academy of the West. Additionally, Treloar is an avid recitalist, having performed around the world from her grandparents’ local church in Wondai, Queensland, Australia, to the Santa Ynez Valley Concert Recital Series in her home state of California, to Zankel Hall at Carnegie and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, to the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France.

In 2023, Treloar made her professional debut with Long Beach Opera singing The Lover in the acclaimed premiere of Kate Soper’s The Romance of the Rose, directed by James Darrah and conducted by Christopher Rountree. The Los Angeles Times hailed the premiere as an “operatic triumph” and wrote, “Tivoli Treloar superbly inhabits the stage like a veteran in her extraordinary first professional starring role.”

Treloar graduated Summa Cum Laude from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where she earned her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and was awarded the Dean’s Medal for academic and artistic excellence. With Opera UCLA, she performed Galatea in Acis and Galatea, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, and Athena in the premiere of Kay Rhie’s Quake. At UCLA, she was a member of the Gluck Fellows Music Outreach Program and the Seraphic Fire Artist Ensemble Program. In December 2022, Treloar was a soloist and chorister with GRAMMY®-nominated Seraphic Fire and is featured on the album, The Apple Tree: Christmas with Seraphic Fire.

As an accomplished dancer and choreographer, Treloar has performed roles with Orange County Ballet Theater including Rosebud and Arabian Princess in Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, and Firebird in scenes from Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Treloar studied ballet and contemporary at Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy and attended summer intensives with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the Radio City Rockettes. For the 2022 production of Eugene Onegin at Music Academy of the West, she was the assistant choreographer to Nicola Bowie. Treloar has also choreographed and performed in multiple filmed vocal recitals. Treloar enjoys collaborating with other artists to create unique works featuring multiple performing arts.

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