British-born and of Mauritian and Lithuanian heritage, Kezia Bienek moved to London from Gloucestershire at the ag of 16 to study musical theatre at the BRIT School. During that time, she was drawn to opera and went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She completed her studies at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School of the Royal College of Music in 2015. She is a Solti Te Kanawa Academia di Bel Canto alumna, and worked with many wonderful singers in various masterclasses during her training, notably Brigitte Fassbaender, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Richard Bonynge and Sir Thomas Allen.

Current and recent engagements include the title role in Carmen and Beppe in L’amico Fritz for Opera Holland Park, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Second Lady in The Magic Flute for Welsh National Opera and Silvia (The Messenger) in Orfeo at Opera North, as well as a return to Glyndebourne Festival in 2024.

In 2018, she made her Glyndebourne Festival debut as Cornelia in Giulio Cesare and later that year as Dorothée in Cendrillon (directed by Fiona Shaw) in her début for Glyndebourne on Tour. In 2019 she appeared as Second Lady in The Magic Flute for her debut with the Welsh National Opera, to which she soon returned to sing Forester’s Wife (and cover Fox) in The Cunning Little Vixen. Other opera engagements have included La Frugola in Il tabarro and Gianetta in Don Bucefalo for the Wexford Festival Opera; Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw for the Barnes Festival; Iside in Giove in Argo and Tauride in Arianna in Creta for the London Handel Festival; Concepcion in L’heure espagnole and Doralice in La gazzetta with the Royal College of Music; Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro with the British Youth Opera; and Dido in Dido and Aeneas with the Glyndebourne Youth Opera.

This is her debut with Opera Rara.