Winner of singing competition 'Ton und Erklärung' 2023, British mezzo-soprano Lila Chrisp is a member of the soloist ensemble at Theater Freiburg, having completed two years in the Opera Studio at the same theatre. Role debuts for the 2024/25 season at Theater Freiburg include Ruggiero, Alcina; Polina, Pique Dame; Zweite Dame, Die Zauberflöte; 
Robin Luron, Le Roi Carotte (Offenbach); and Lumee in the European Premiere of Ellen Reid's Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Opera p r i s m.

Previous highlights at Theater Freiburg in seasons 2022-24 include Hänsel, Hänsel und Gretel; Amy, Company (Sondheim); and Ofglen, The Handmaid's Tale (Rouders); Lucy, Marnie (Muhly); Nymph 2, Rusalka; and Lucy, Die Dreigroschenoper, for which she received outstanding reviews. In the 2023/24 season, she made her house debut at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, performing the role of Ilse in the World Premiere of Dark Fall: an opera about dementia byHans Thomalla.

A lover of art song, Lila has recently given song recitals with duo partner Hamish Brown as part of Beethovenfest Bonn and the Middle Temple Music Nights in London. She has given recitals with with Gerold Huber the Münchner Künstlerhaus (June 2024), with Manuel Lange at the Konzerthaus Berlin (April 2024) and will perform again with Manuel Lange in a recital celebrating Schoenberg's 150th birthday at Theater Gütersloh in September 2024. Lila was the winner of the AESS Courtney Kenny competition for English Song and Poetry 2018 and has previously performed as part of the London Song Festival.

Lila graduated in 2022 from a Masters’ degree at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she was taught by Louise Winter. Her studies were kindly supported by the Annie Ridyard Scholarship and the Kathleen Trust.  She was a Garsington Opera Alvarez Young Artist for Summer 2022, singing in the chorus in productions of Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte and Dvorak’s Rusalka, as well as covering and performing the role of Nymph 3 in Rusalka. She played Coll in a new opera, Drought, by Anna Appleby, which premiered with the BBC Philharmonic and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

While studying at the RNCM, Lila performed the roles of Marcellina, Le Nozze di Figaro; Forester’s Wife/Owl, The Cunning Little Vixen; and Mrs Nolan, The Medium (Menotti). She was also Barefoot Opera Young Artist 2021, performing the roles of Zanetto (Mascagni) and Orfeo (Gluck) at Grimborn Festival (Arcola Theatre).​

Lila previously graduated in 2017 with a First-Class Honours degree in Music from Merton College, Oxford, where she was a choral and academic scholar. During her undergraduate degree at Oxford, she took lead roles in several university opera productions, including Nancy, Albert Herring; Dido, Dido & Aeneas; Dorabella, Cosi fan Tutte; Annio, La Clemenza di Tito; Ottavia, L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Martha in the première of Marco Galvani’s chamber opera Rothschild’s Violin.​

Her solo concert and oratorio experience includes: Mozart, Requiem (Wokingham Choral Society), Duruflé, Requiem (Oxford Bach Choir/Sheldonian Theatre), Handel, Messiah (OU Chorus/Sheldonian Theatre), Mahler, Symphony No. 2 (Oxford University Philharmonia/Sheldonian Theatre), Elgar, Sea Pictures (Consortium Novum/SJE Oxford, & Bliss Sinfonia/Rugby School), Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (Consortium Novum/Sheldonian Theatre), and Bach, Magnificat in D (Choir of Merton College, Oxford & The Oxford Philharmonic).