Renowned on the great recital, concert
and opera stages of the world, Alice Coote's career has taken her from
her beginnings in the north of England (born in Cheshire),
singing in local festivals and playing Oboe in the Cheshire
Youth Orchestra, to being regarded as one of the great artists
of today.
She trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Northern
College of Music and The National Opera Studio, receiving during this
time the Decca Kathleen Ferrier Prize and the Brigitte Fassbaender
Prize for Lieder Interpretation. The recital platform is central to her
musical life. Alice performs throughout the UK, Europe and the US at
the Wigmore Hall, the BBC Proms, the Concertgebouw,
the Lincoln Centre and the Carnegie Hall, among many other prestigious
venues. Recently, she has performed Schubert's Winterreise
in Chicago and Frankfurt and Mahler’s Das Lied von der
Erde in Amsterdam and with the London Philharmonia. Judith
Weir's The Voice of Desire was written for her. She toured
Europe in La Clemenza di Tito with Louis Langrйe and the
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and is currently a BBC Proms
resident artist, where she has performed with Julius Drake, the London
Philharmonic and the Apostles with the Hallй Orchestra.
Acclaimed in particular for Mahler, Berlioz, Mozart, Hдndel
and Bach with orchestras such as London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Radio
Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Netherlands
Philharmonic, Concert D'Astrйe, Hallй and Concertgebouw, and has
collaborated with conductors including Gergiev, Dohnanyi, Belohavek, Elder
and Boulez.
Coote spends a large part of her time engaged in the UK
and abroad interpreting male and female roles, such as Dejaneira
Hercules, Prince Charming Cendrillon, Carmen, Charlotte
Werther, Dorabella Cosм fan Tutte, Lucretia The Rape
of Lucretia, Marguerite Damnation de Faust, Penelope
Ulysses, Octavian Der Rosenkavalier, Composer
Ariadne, Orfeo, Idamante Idomeneo, Poppea as well as Nerone
L’incoronazione di Poppea, Hansel, Sesto La Clemenza di Tito,
Sesto Giulio Cesare, Maffio Orsini Lucretia Borgia, Ruggiero
Alcina and Ariodante. She has performed these roles at
Opera North, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, English National Opera,
Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House. In Europe she has appeared at
the Opйra de Paris and the Thйвtre des Champs-Elysйes,
in Amsterdam, Geneva, Munich, Frankfurt and Salzburg. US appearances
include the Chicago Lyric Opera, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Toronto and the Met.
Recent engagements include Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius with
the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Rьckertlieder with the BBC
Symphony Orchestra, Les nuits d'йtй with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, various recitals across Europe and a return to the Hyperion
recording studios for an album of French songs with Graham Johnson.
Highlights of her operatic calendar in 2012/13 include Leonore
La Favorite at the Thйвtre des Champs-Йlysйes in Paris, Sesto
Giulio Cesare at New York’s Met and Nicklausse/the Muse The
Tales of Hoffmann at San Francisco Opera. On CD: an album
of English Song, The Power of Love (Hyperion); Songs by
Robert Schumann and Gustav Mahler (EMI); Hдndel’s Messiah and Mahler 2
(EMI); Angel Dream of Gerontius (Hallй); Composer Ariadne auf
Naxos (Chandos); Orfeo (Virgin Classics); Choice of Hercules
(Hyperion); Brahms Alto Rhapsody (Tudor).
On DVD: Hдndel’s Messiah (EMI); Hansel Hansel
and Gretel (EMI); Nerone Poppea (Decca); Maffio Orsini
Lucrezia Borgia (Medici Arts).
Renowned on the great recital, concert and opera stages of the
world, Alice Coote's career has taken her from her beginnings
in the north of England (born in Cheshire), singing
in local festivals and playing Oboe in the Cheshire Youth
Orchestra, to being regarded as one of the great artists of today.