Born in 1979, Elizabeth Watts was a chorister at Norwich Cathedral and gained a first class honours degree in archaeology at Sheffield University before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music Benjamin Britten International Opera School in 2002. While there she won numerous awards and was selected for representation by YCAT (Young Concert Artists Trust) in 2004. She went on to win the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Prize, the 2007 Outstanding Young Artist Award at the "MIDEM Classique Awards" in Cannes and represented England at the 2007 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, reaching the final and winning the prestigious Rosenblatt Song Prize. She was recently selected for BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.

Elizabeth joined English National Opera Young Singers’ Programme in 2005 where her roles included Barbarina/Le Nozze di Figaro, Papagena/Die Zauberflote, Music and Hope/Orfeo and roles in King Arthur in a co-production with the Mark Morris Dance Company. She reprised her role in Orfeo with the Handel and Haydn Society and performed King Arthur in Berkeley, California. Other operatic work includes Flora/The Knot Garden for Music Theatre Wales/Royal Opera House, the title role of Semele for British Youth Opera, and Arthébuze/Actéon conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm at the Aldeburgh Festival. She will make her debut at Santa Fe Opera in summer 2008 and at Welsh National Opera in 2009 singing Susanna (Figaro).
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Elizabeth is much in demand as a recitalist and concert singer working regularly with pianists such as Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake and Gary Matthewman. Future plans also include concerts with the Scottish Chamber, London Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras and The English Concert.

Ms. Watts performs in Haydn's "Creation" on May 31, 2009. Her last performance with the Society was in the role of La Musica/Speranza in the September 2006 production of Monteverdi's Orfeo.