Alice Coote
Alice Coote (born May 10, 1968 in Frodsham , Cheshire , England ) is a British opera singer (lyric mezzo-soprano ).
Life
Alice Coote studied at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama , the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the National Opera Studio in London. Her repertoire includes oratorios by Bach and Handel , songs by Mahler , Debussy and Britten . According to her own admission, she had her breakthrough at the Edinburgh Festival 2000 as Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina and a few weeks later as Monteverdi's Poppea . The following year she made her debut on the Last Night of the Proms .
She has sung with the London Philharmonic , Hallé Orchestra , Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra , Royal Philharmonic , Concertgebouw Orchestra , Philharmonia and the New York Philharmonic . The conductors were Kent Nagano , Libor Pešek , Yehudi Menuhin , Pierre Boulez , Mark Elder , Esa-Pekka Salonen , Valery Gergiev , Christoph von Dohnányi , William Christie , Emmanuelle Haïm and Richard Hickox .
After Graham Johnson , Julius Drake is her “man at the piano”. With him she appears regularly in the Wigmore Hall in London, in the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and in the Carnegie Hall . Judith Weir dedicated The Voice of Desire to her and Drake .
Operas
She is now world famous as 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 , Het Muziektheater 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 . In November 2014 she made her debut as Octavian in the Vienna State Opera .
- Berlioz: La damnation de Faust - Frankfurt Opera
- Bizet: Carmen - English National Opera
- Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
- Donizetti: La favorite - Paris
- Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia - Bavarian State Opera
- Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
- Handel: Alcina
- Handel: Ariodante - Oviedo
- Handel: Giulio Cesare - Metropolitan Opera
- Handel: Hercules - Chicago
- Handel: Orlando
- Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel - Covent Garden Opera , Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne
- Liebermann : Penelope
- Massenet : Cendrillon - London
- Massenet: Werther - Leeds, Frankfurt am Main
- Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea - Glyndebourne Festival Opera
- Mozart: La clemenza di Tito - Metropolitan Opera
- Mozart: Così fan tutte
- Mozart: Idomeneo - San Francisco Opera
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
- Offenbach: Hoffmann's Tales - San Francisco
- J. Strauss: The bat
- R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos - Chicago, Munich, Toronto
- R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Deutsche Oper Berlin , Grand Théâtre de Genève
Honors
- Brigitte Fassbaender Prize
- Kathleen Ferrier Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Alice Coote in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alice Coote at Operabase (engagements and dates)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Interview with the Guardian (August 16, 2010)
- ↑ a b c IMG Artists (2008)
- ↑ rhein-main-net: Recital with Alice Coote ( Memento from October 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The Independent (June 24, 2011)
- ↑ wiener-staatsoper.at: Alice Coote ( Memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coote, Alice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British opera singer (lyric mezzo-soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frodsham , Cheshire , England |