About Georgia
Georgia Thomas is a 21-year-old Atlanta-based soprano performing in opera, operetta, and musical theatre. She is currently in her senior year of undergraduate voice performance studies at Furman University under Dr. Grant Knox.
This fall, Georgia is looking forward to playing Billie in Speed Dating Tonight! at Furman University and singing the well-known “Fragile Heart” duet. During the summer of 2025, 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 the composer of the opera, 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. She recently qualified for the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.
Last spring, Georgia was a finalist for the Schmidt Undergraduate Vocal Competition, performed the role of Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, and sang in the chorus of Amahl and the Night Visitors, both with Sarah Reese Lyric Theater. She also sang the title role of Lakmé in the Flower Duet for the Furman University Music Opera Scenes program. Last spring, she toured Europe with the Furman Singers, Furman University’s flagship coed choir, which she has been a part of for all four years of her undergraduate studies.
Other performance experience includes: “Come Unto Him” soloist in Handel’s Messiah (Furman University Music), 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 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 performing contemporary American opera and working with living composers, something that she has gotten to do multiple times while performing Cold Mountain, Dragon’s Breath, and Mayo Buckner (a life interrupted).
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).