Alice Coote

Alice Coote ( born May 10 1968 in Frodsham, Cheshire, England) is a British singer in the subject lyric mezzo.

Life

Alice Coote studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and at the National Opera Studio in London. Her repertoire includes oratorios of Bach and Handel, songs by Mahler, Debussy and Britten. By his own admission, she had her breakthrough at the Edinburgh Festival 2000 as Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina and a few weeks later than Monteverdi's Poppea. The following year she made ​​her debut in the Last Night of the Proms.

She sang with the London Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia and the New York Philharmonic. Conductors were Kent Nagano, Libor Pesek, Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Boulez, Mark Elder, Esa -Pekka Salonen, Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnányi, William Christie, Emmanuelle Haim and Richard Hickox.

After Graham Johnson Julius Drake is her " piano man ". With him, she performs regularly at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and at Carnegie Hall on. Judith Weir dedicated to her and Drake The Voice of Desire.

Operas

World famous she has become an opera singer. Stages were the Covent Garden Opera, English National Opera, Opera North in Leeds, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera in Glasgow, Stuttgart Opera, Amsterdam Music Theatre in Amsterdam, Paris Opera, Nancy, Théâtre Graslin in Nantes / Angers, Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Music Center, Chicago, Seattle, and the Salzburg Festival. She loves trouser roles.

  • Orfeo ed Euridice
  • Ariodante - Oviedo
  • La Clemenza di Tito - Metropolitan Opera
  • Giulio Cesare - Metropolitan Opera
  • Alcina
  • L' incoronazione di Poppea - Glyndebourne Festival Opera
  • Rolf Liebermann, Penelope
  • Così fan tutte
  • Le nozze di Figaro
  • The Rape of Lucretia
  • Orlando
  • The Bat
  • Der Rosenkavalier - German Opera Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Genève
  • Idomeneo - San Francisco Opera
  • Lucrezia Borgia - Bavarian State Opera
  • Hansel and Gretel - Covent Garden Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne
  • Carmen - English National Opera
  • La Damnation de Faust - Opera Frankfurt
  • Ariadne auf Naxos - Chicago, Munich, Toronto
  • The Tales of Hoffmann - San Francisco
  • Giulio Cesare - Metropolitan Opera
  • Werther ( Massenet ) - Leeds, Frankfurt am Main
  • The favorite - Paris
  • Cendrillon ( Massenet ) - London
  • Hercules ( Handel ) - Chicago

Honors

Singing Gustav Mahler Claude Debussy Claudio Monteverdi London Philharmonic Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen Valery Gergiev William Christie (harpsichordist) Graham Johnson (musician) Nancy, France Los Angeles Music Center Breeches role Die Fledermaus Lucrezia Borgia (opera) La favorite Integrated Authority File
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