Louise Keast

Soprano

Based in Sydney, Louise Keast’s voice has been described as a “splendid lyric soprano instrument” with the capacity to “rattle the walls”. Louise debuted with the Opera Australia Chorus in the 2021 Melbourne Season production of Aida. She has since performed more than thirty operas as a chorister and became a permanent member of the Opera Australia Chorus in 2022. A particularly treasured opportunity was performing alongside her colleagues as soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem in 2024. In February 2024 Louise performed her mainstage debut at the Sydney Opera House in the role of Papagena (The Magic Flute). Other roles and covers with Opera Australia include Freia (Das Rheingold), Frasquita (Carmen) in Sydney and Melbourne, Spirits (Cinderella), Le Novizie (Il Trittico), First Page (Tannhäuser) and Cretan (Idomeneo). In 2025 Louise coached the role of Violetta Valéry (La Traviata) at Opera Australia. In 2026 Louise was awarded the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship and was a semi-finalist in the Herald Sun Aria Compeition.

Louise has also performed with many of Australia’s other operatic companies and festivals including Victorian Opera, Operantics, Gertrude Opera, BK Opera, National Opera, Port Fairy Spring Music Festival. Notable recent debuts include Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) with Opera Lirica, Wellgunde (Das Rheingold) and Marzelline (Fidelio) with Melbourne Opera, and Fiordiligi in the Green Room Award nominated production of Così fan tutte with Iopera. Earlier in her career, Louise was a Richard Divall Emerging Artist with Melbourne Opera, and as a recipient of their Rotary Next Generation Service Exchange Scholarship in 2020 she presented solo operatic recitals at the Festival Junger Künstler, Bayreuth, in Germany.