A graduate of both the Guildhall Opera School, UK, and the Sydney Conservatorium, Australia, Celeste Lazarenko has appeared as a soloist both internationally and locally.

She has worked with companies overseas such as English National Opera, Opera North, Opera Angers/ Nantes, and in Australia her work has included companies such as Victorian Opera, Pinchgut, Opera Australia and Sydney Chamber Opera. She has also performed with SSO, QSO, CSO, TSO, NZ Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia, and the Australian Haydn Ensemble.

In Australia Celeste’s roles have included the title role of The Cunning Little Vixen for Victorian Opera, ‘Female Chorus’ in Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera, Télaïre in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux, Medea in Cavalli’s Giasone and Leonore in Grétry’s L’amant jaloux all for Pinchgut Opera. Celeste has also performed Susanna in Marriage of Figaro, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Pamina in Magic Flute all for Opera Australia Touring.

Last year in 2023 Celeste performed the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and The Woodbird in Siegfried for The Ring Cycle for Opera Australia, Elle in La Voix Humaine for Sydney Chamber Opera and Mahler 4 with Sydney Philharmonia.

In 2024 Celeste has performed the roles of Ilia in Idomeneo and Pamina in The Magic Flute with Opera Australia, ‘Heavenly Sopranos’ with the Haydn Ensemble, Elijah with Sydney Philharmonia, Mahler 4 with Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and a Mozart Requiem with TSO.

This bio taken from the last program in which Celeste appeared.