A first-year Butler Studio artist from Ruthin, Wales, Scarlett Jones was the first-place winner at HGO’s 2026 Concert of Arias. She makes her HGO debut in the 2026-27 season as Mrs. Hayes in Susannah. Other roles this season include First Lady in mainstage and Family Day performances of The Magic Flute and a Noble Orphan in Der Rosenkavalier. In summer 2026, Jones was an Apprentice Singer with The Santa Fe Opera. While at The Juilliard School, Jones performed as Gertrude in Hansel and Gretel and covered Miss Jessel in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. She also covered Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos with Dramatic Voices Berlin. At Trinity Laban Conservatoire, she performed the title role in Errollyn Wallen’s Dido’s Ghost, Waltraute in Wagner’s Die Walküre, and Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung with the school’s Postgraduate Opera Scenes program. Jones holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London, and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she was a recipient of the prestigious Kovner Fellowship and Higley Scholarship.