This season soprano Louise Alder makes her US operatic debut as Micaëla, Carmen at San Francisco Opera and role debuts as Donna Anna Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera and Contessa Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and is the principal soloist at the BBC Last Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall.
She also returns to Bayerische Staatsoper for Susanna Le nozze di Figaro and to Wiener Staatsoper for Fiordiligi Così fan tutte and tours Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch with Mauro Peter and Samling Artist Joseph Middleton at Bliss International Song Series Cambridge, Leeds Lieder at Opera North, Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Oper Frankfurt and Life Victoria Barcelona.
Louise will also perform Strauss Songs in Helsinki, Haydn’s Creation in Lisbon, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony in Venice and Cleopatra Giulio Cesare at the Barbican and Carnegie Hall with English Concert. Other future engagements include returns to Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Wiener Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and debuts at The Metropolitan Opera, Berlin Staatsoper and Dutch National Opera.
Recent concert highlights include Mahler 2 with Sir Simon Rattle and London Symphony orchestra at the BBC Proms; Messiah at the New York Philharmonic and Musikverein Vienna;Szenen aus Goethes Faust and Canteloube Chants d’Auvergne with The Concertgebouw and BRSO; the title role in Semele with John Eliot Gardiner at Teatro alla Scala Milan, Philharmonie de Paris and Palau de la Música, Barcelona; Beethoven 9 with Tokyo Philharmonic; Mozart arias with Daniel Harding and Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Salzburg Mozartwoche and recitals at Wigmore Hall, Graz Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Foundation Privada Victoria de Los Angeles, Barcelona and BBC Proms with Joseph Middleton, Gary Matthewman and James Baillieu.
Her extensive recordings include the title role in Theodora with Arcangelo and Alpha Classics; ‘Chère Nuit’, a selection of French songs with Joseph Middleton and Chandos Records; Strauss Brentano Lieder with Robin Ticciati and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester; Semele on both CD and DVD with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists; ‘Through Life and Love’, a programme of Strauss Songs with pianist Joseph Middleton for Orchid Classics and ‘Lines Written during a Sleepless Night: The Russian Connection’ also with Joseph Middleton for Chandos.
She is the winner of the Young Singer Award at the 2017 International Opera Awards and the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the 2017 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. She also won the inaugural British Young Soloists’ Competition at Wigmore Hall in 2015; the 2014 Glyndebourne Festival Opera John Christie Award and the 2013 Glyndebourne on Tour Donald Albert Anderson Award. Also in 2013, Louise won second prize in Kathleen Ferrier Award and an INDEPENDENT OPERA fellowship and became a Classical Opera Associate Artist. Other prizes include first prize and a Miriam Licette Award in the 2012 Maggie Teyte French Song Competition, and numerous prizes at the Royal College of Music including the 2013 Tagore Gold Medal awarded every year to two graduating students for outstanding representation of the RCM.
Louise was born in London into a family of musicians and graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Edinburgh in 2010 where she studied singing with Patricia MacMahon. The same year she joined the Royal College of Music, graduating in 2013 from the International Opera School as the inaugural Kiri Te Kanawa scholar. She continues to study with Dinah Harris.
