Charlotte Pawley is a classical soprano based in Cardiff and performing in operas and recitals. She currently studying at the David Seligman Opera School at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama newly under the tutelage of the reknowned soprano Elizabeth Donovan (and until recently with the acclaimed soprano Elizabeth Atherton).
Charlotte is one of the ‘outstanding vocal finalists’ in the June 2025 Sir Ian Stoutzer Prize, the 2024 winner of the Adelina Patti Prize and in 2023 was the winner of the RWCMD Eileen Price Prize for Lieder Singing, and The Elias Singing Prize for Sopranos. Her studies at the college are supported by the Starmer Jones Scholarship and the Jenkin-Phillips Scholarships, and she is a Sybil Tutton Opera Award Holder.
© Kirsten McTernan Photography
© Kirsten McTernan Photography
Her engagements include the Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Sandmann in (Hänsel und Gretel), The Nightingale & The Spindle (The Sleeping Beauty), Sister Catherine (The Dialogue of the Carmelites) and performances with the Oxford Alternative Orchestra and the Leeds Opera Festival as Charlotte (Der Diktator). Previous solo operatic roles and excerpts include Nannetta (Falstaff), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Magda (The Consul), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) and Amore (Venus and Adonis). She has also performed in the chorus in productions with the RWCMD David Seligman Opera School in Le Nozze di Figaro and the 2022 WNO Opera Gala conducted by Carlo Rizzi, the Oxford Opera Society, The People’s Opera and the Cumbria Opera Group.
As a concert soloist, Charlotte has performed with the Newbury Symphony Orchestra, St Hilda’s College Choir and University College Choir, and premiered the role of Begu, a nun in ‘St Hilda of Whitby: A Cantata’ by Nicola LeFanu for St Hilda’s 125th Anniversary celebrations.
Charlotte Pawley- Soprano 
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