Olivia studied at the RNCM, the English National Opera’s The Knack, and the GSMD, receiving a fellowship to Aspen, Colorado to study with Susanne Mentzer. Mezzo-soprano hire London.
Her operatic engagements include Flora in La Traviata, Enrichetta di Francia in I Puritani and Soeur Mathilde Dialogues des Carmélites for Grange Park Opera, Elgar The Apostles in Gloucester Cathedral and Rossini Petite messe solennelle at the Three Choirs Festival.
Other operatic roles include Alisa Lucia di Lammermoor, Curra La forza del destino, Mrs Fox in Fantastic Mr Fox and Suzy / Lolette in La rondine for Opera Holland Park. She also performed Juno in Orpheus in the Underworld and Olga in Eugene Onegin with Scottish Opera, Mrs Noye Noyes Fludde with the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Rosina in The Barber of Seville with Stanley Hall Opera; the title role in Offenbach’s La Périchole with Opera South; Angelina La Cenerentola with English Pocket Opera, Minotaur Productions, London Opera Productions; Maddalena in Rigoletto with Live Action Opera; Irene Theodora and 
Pulcheria Riccardo Primo with Opéra de Baugé; Mother in The Tales of Hoffmann and Esmeralda in The Bartered Bride with Mid Wales Opera; the title role in Carmen with Pavilion Opera, Opera Brava, Mananan Arts Festival; Annina La traviata with Pavilion Opera) Smeraldina in Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges with English Pocket Opera; Dido in Dido and Aeneas with Minotaur Productions, Cannon Scholars; Mrs Kneebone Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement with Opera East; Nadine, John Lunn’s workshop production of Tangier Tattoo with Glyndebourne and Melanto Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with GSMD.
Oratorio and concert experience includes St John Passion, St Matthew Passion, Magnificat (C.P.E.Bach, J.S Bach); Nuits D’ete; Spring Symphony (Britten); Requiem (Duruflé); Sea Pictures, Music Makers; Messiah, Theodora, Dixit Dominus; Nelson Mass, Harmoniemesse; Coronation Mass, Requiem, Vesperes Solomnes; Miserere (Scarlatti); Gloria (Vivaldi).
Prizes include Fellowship, Aspen Music Festival and School, Colorado; Lillian Baylis Bursary, The Knack, ENO; Clare Croiza Prize for French Song, RNCM; John Cameron Special Lieder Prize, RNCM.