Melanie studied at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama where she performed regularly in the college chamber choir & productions. Roles included 1st Boy (Magic Flute), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice), Clorinda (Combattimento di Tancredi et Clorinda) & Amore (L’Incoronazione di Poppea). In 2003 she began to work in Opera and worked with several different companies including London City Opera (Madam Butterfly USA Tour), Opera Holland Park (L’Arlesiana and Fidelio), The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company (Princess Ida and HMS Pinafore), Carl Rosa Opera (HMS Pinafore UK Tour), Wexford Festival Opera (La Vestale and Prinzessin Brambilla) and Tower Festival Opera (Anna Bolena). On the lighter side Melanie was engaged as a Swing for the 2005 Thursford Christmas Spectacular.

Recent roles include Peep Bo (Mikado) Surrey Opera, Isabella (L'Inganno Felice), Opera Minima, Olga, (The Merry Widow) for Opera UK, Marchande (Carmen) for Scottish Opera, Cherubino (Figaro), Cecilio (Lucia Silla) and Annio (La Clamenza di Tito) for Opera Minima, Alice (Il Comte Ory) for New Chamber Opera, cover Marcellina & Barbarina (Figaro) CUOS, cover Despina (Cosi Fan Tutte) and Shepherd Boy (Tosca) Opera UK, Barbarina (Figaro) London Opera Players, Fillipievna (Eugene Onegin) Birmingham Chamber Orchestra, Martha (Faust) Opera South, Marcellina (Figaro) Simply Opera, Modestina and Maddalena (Il Viaggio a Riems) Wexford Festival Opera, 2nd Boy (The Magic Flute) Surrey Opera and Pastore (Tosca) for ECHO Opera.

Melanie deputizes for the Guards Chapel on Birdcage Walk & recently sang the Alto solo for Handel’s Messiah with the East Croydon Bach Choir. Other Oratorio includes Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Tippett's A Child of our Time. In 2006 she was accepted onto the Making Music ‘Developing Young Artists Program’ in which she worked closely with Ramsey Choral Society. As a result she has been invited back to perform for their Summer Proms.

Future operatic engagements include Pitti-Sing (Mikado), Ensemble (Falstaff) with Grange Park Opera and Beggar Woman (Sweeny Todd) Millrace Productions. Oratorio engagements include soprano and alto solo's for Arthur Somervelle's The Passion of Christ.