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Mezzo-soprano
Returning to Opera Holland Park this year for the second time, Louise sang the role of Rita the Rat in their production of Tobias Picker’s Fantastic Mr Fox both at Opera Holland Park and at Alex James' festival 'Harvest'. She also worked in their production’s of Donizetti Don Pasquale and Mascagni L’amico Fritz.
Louise has appeared in concert across the UK, highlights of which include her solo appearance for Ian Venables
Awake, awake, the world is young at Tewkesbury Abbey and Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer with the Derby
Concert Orchestra.
Since July 2009, Louise has sung regularly with the Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood, in Wiltshire, Northamptonshire and Hampshire. She has also appeared with the Royal Corps of Signals Band at the Shrivenham Defence Academy’s annual music and fireworks concert, with continued requests to return each year.
Oratorio solo appearances have included Mozart Requiem, Vivaldi Gloria, Haydn Nelson Mass,
Handel Dixit Dominus, Bach Cantata No.172, Handel Messiah and Handel Israel in Egypt.
Louise's operatic appearances include Chloe in Laura Bowler Anything Money Can Buy at both RNCM
and the Opera Tête à Tête festival, Pepik in Janáček The Cunning Little
Vixen and the Police Constable in Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera (RNCM), Second boy in Mozart The
Magic Flute (LFO) and Second Witch in Purcell Dido and Aeneas (MJUK).
Louise
has enjoyed many chorus appearances, including Bizet Carmen and Debussy Pelleas et Melissande (OHP),
Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress (BYO), Bernstein Candide (RNCM), Puccini Tosca (LFO),
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin and Puccini La Rondine (RNCM). Louise’s opera excerpt experience has been
Octavian in Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier with the RNCM Concert Orchestra and in a staged excerpt performance,
Carmen in Ardingly International Music School’s production of Bizet Carmen, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel,
The Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Arnalta in The Corontion of Poppea (RNCM). Her choral appearances
include Edward Gregson Dance Forever the Dance at the Bridgewater Hall, Ravel Daphnis et Chloe and Debussy
Sirens under Jac van Steen, Mozart Requiem at the Bridgewater hall under Sir Colin Davis and the supporting
choir behind Paul Potts at the Royal Variety Show 2007.
Later in the year Louise will appear as the soloist for Mozart Requiem and Vespers at Tewkesbury Abbey.
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