Mezzo Soprano Alison
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Lighting up the stage with every performance, Mezzo Soprano Alison is a graduate from the Royal College of Music’s Opera course and winner of the AsLiCo Young European Opera Singers’ Competition.
A multi-award winning performer, she has been involved in many hugely successful performances including becoming a finalist Kathleen Ferrier Award Winner, and has received several scholarships from the Peter Moores music foundation, Ian Fleming Award and Sacher Scholarship.
Some of her biggest musical projects include singing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, the London Mozart Players, the English Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the OSJ and the Halle Orchestra, which was also broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and released on CD.
Alison has sung most of the standard oratorio repertoire for mezzo throughout the country in venues varying from parish churches to concert halls and cathedrals. Her most repeated repertoire includes Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, Verdi Requiem, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Handel's Messiah.
She has sung the Angel in Gerontius as far north as Aberdeen and as far south as Exeter and considers this to be one of her favourite works. She also has a love of Bach and has sung both the St John and St Matthew Passions and the Christmas Oratorio and B Minor Mass on many occasions.
Alison has a love of old-fashioned musical theatre, varying from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Noel Coward. She loves lightening her voice to suit this repertoire and had a great success at the Cadogan Hall when she sang as a guest soloist in a concert entirely of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Mezzo Soprano Alison is one of those performers who not only lights up the stage when she appears, but also pervades infectious enthusiasm at any event.
- Charlotte - Werther
- Judith - Bluebeard's Castle
- Flora - La Traviata
- Dangeville - Adriana LeCouvreur
- Dorabella - Cosi Fan Tutte
- Donna Elvira - Don Giovanni
- Cherubino - Marriage of Figaro
- Fricka Siegrune - Die Walkure
- Tisbe - La Cenerentola
- Romeo - I Capuleti e I Montecchi
- Mercedes - Carmen
- Secretary - The Consul
- Diana - La Calisto
- Dorisbe - Gustavo I Re di Svezia
- Diamantina - Isola di Merlino
- Rosina - The Barber of Seville
" An excellent cast….The emotional complexities are beautifully delineated. The musical values are high…best of all is Alison who wonderfully exposes Charlotte's psychological and moral hell. "
The Guardian – Tim Ashley
" Alison’s Fricka is almost beyond praise – and her acting convinces you that there is a real domestic going on here. It read just like today’s front pages in the British press. "
Die Walküre – Arts Journal (Wall Street Journal) – Paul Levy – 20th June 2013
" And we were present at the discovery of some new stars.....Alison’s Fricka was sensational, but so was her Waltraute. "
Götterdämmerung – Arts Journal (Wall Street Journal) – Paul Levy – 23rd June 2013
" Alison ensured that Waltraute’s visit to Brünnhilde in exile was, as it should be, gripping in its urgency, and she was also a chilling, haughty Fricka. "
Opera Magazine – Michael Kennedy
" The magnificent Fricka of Alison…beautiful, anxious but self-righteous, a complete portrayal. "
Fricka – The Spectator (Michael Tanner) July 20th 2013
" Alison’s warm-coloured mezzo is extremely attractive, and she revealed unsuspected strength at the top in her big third-act solos without any sense of strain. Her sudden fortissimo 'Ah, reviens' to Sophie, so shamelessly lifted from Otello, was shattering. Her impersonation of a simple girl somewhat out of her depth, one who has taken on more than she bargained for, worked well. "
Opera - Rodney Milnes
