Mimi Doulton is a soprano of British-Pakistani origin, with a particular interest in contemporary opera and song. She is a Live Music Now Artist, a Longborough Festival Emerging Artist, a Leeds Lieder Young Artist, an Opera Prelude Artist and a Park Lane Group Young Artist. In 2017/18 she was the vocal scholar at Fondation Royaumont’s Academie Voix Nouvelles, won third place at the Music Club of London Competition, and was a finalist at the Dean & Chadlington Competition.

In 2020, Mimi will be making role debuts as Jano in Jenufa (Fulham Opera), Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia (Palace Opera), Ilia in Idomeneo (Haslemere Symphony Orchestra) and Pepik in The Cunning Little Vixen (Longborough Festival Opera). She will also premiere the role of Maya in Tom Smail’s completed Blue Electric at the Playground Theatre, Latimer Road.

Recent engagements include cover Jerusha Cramer in Gerald Barry’s The Intelligence Park for Music Theatre Wales and The Royal Opera, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with Merry Opera Company, and creating the role of Mary in Wake with Birmingham Opera Company (directed by Graham Vick CBE). Mimi has also created roles in Blue Electric and Schutzwall at Tête a Tête, and developed new opera with the Royal Opera, Mahogany Opera Group, and Snape Maltings.

As a recitalist she has premiered works at venues including Wigmore Hall, Club Inégales and Fondation Royaumont. She was part of the London Symphony Orchestra's 'This is Rattle' Festival in 2017/18, and performed Copland's 12 poems of Emily Dickinson in the Barbican Hall as part of the orchestra's Bernstein Centenary celebrations. Recital repertoire for the 2019/20 season includes Messiaen’s Chants de terre et de ciel, Richard Strauss’ Ophelia Lieder, and Ravel and Debussy’s settings of Stephane Mallarme.

She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with distinction in 2018, where her studies were supported by the Guildhall School Trust, the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Trust, the Mario Lanza Educational Foundation, the Charity of Mary Barnes, and three private donors. Previously, Mimi was the Helen Hudson choral scholar at King's College London, graduating with first-class honours in Music and Languages in 2015.