About Georgia
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Recently at Furman, Georgia played Billie in Michael Ching’s SPEED DATING TONIGHT! And sang “Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion” in Handel’s “Messiah.” Last summer, she was a Seagle Festival Emerging Artist for the second time, singing the roles of Erma Latour in ANYTHING GOES and Frasquita (cover) in CARMEN, her first named role in a foreign-language opera. She also performed the role of Valeria in the second-ever staging of MAYO BUCKNER (A LIFE INTERRUPTED), during which she worked closely with composer Tom Cipullo. Weeks prior, she made her role debut as Abigail Williams in THE CRUCIBLE (Ward) with Harrower Summer Opera Workshop under the direction of Dr. Jen Stephenson and Rolando Salazar.
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Georgia Thomas is a 22-year-old Atlanta-based soprano performing in opera and musical theatre. She is currently in her senior year of undergraduate voice performance studies at Furman University under Dr. Grant Knox.
Most recently, Georgia was named one of two winners of the 2025-26 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in the South Carolina district and received an Encouragement Award in the Southeast Region, honors she was thrilled to receive as the youngest competitor in both competitions. This spring, she will play the role of Anna Maurrant in Sarah Reese Lyric Theatre’s production of Kurt Weill’s STREET SCENE, her last opera during her undergraduate studies. She is also thrilled to return to Harrower Summer Opera for the 2026 season, playing Lauretta in Puccini’s GIANNI SCHICCHI, and to also attend SongFest as a Young Artist.
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Other performance experience includes: “Come Unto Him” soloist in Handel’s “Messiah” (Furman University Oratorio), Fantine in Les Misérables (CYT Atlanta), Kate in The Pirates of Penzance (Sarah Reese Lyric Theater), Lila / Sara in the New York and Northeast premiere of Cold Mountain (Higdon, Seagle Festival), and Mom / Somi in the New York premiere of Evan Mack’s children’s opera Dragon’s Breath (Seagle Festival). Georgia also performed the title role of Anastasia, for which she won the Georgia High School Musical Theatre Shuler Hensley Award (GHSMTA) for Best Leading Actress, and went on to compete in the National High School Musical Theatre “Jimmy” Awards in the same category. Choral music is also one of Georgia’s passions – she was honored to perform Morten Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna” in its entirety at Carnegie Hall in 2019. She loves contemporary American opera and working with living composers, something that she has had the opportunity to do multiple times while performing Cold Mountain, Dragon’s Breath, and Mayo Buckner (a life interrupted).
Photo by Nicole Huasta, courtesy of Seagle Festival
Georgia has theatrical experience behind the scenes as well - she loves special effects makeup for the theatre, and made her directorial debut in 2023 with Little Shop of Horrors with Furman University’s student theatre group, the Pauper Players. Aside from the arts, she loves to play video games, go to renaissance faires, and spend time with her loved ones (including her two rescue dogs, Poppy and Marshall, and her cat, Dmitri Hvorostovsky).