SOLOISTS

7th November 2010                      27th November 2009

J.S. Bach 'Erbarme Dich' Aria from St. Matthew's Passion, BWV 244

Louise Winter, mezzo-soprano

“ Louise Winter’s lovely Dido, poised and poignant, reminded me at times of Flagstad’s ”

Opera Magazine   

LouiseWinter  was born in Preston, Lancashire, and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. She made her début in 1982 with Glyndebourne Touring Opera singing Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte  and subsequently sang Tisbe La Cenerentola  , Zerlina Don Giovanni, and Rosina  Il barbiere di Siviglia for the company. Roles for Glyndebourne Festival Opera have included Sesto La clemenza di Tito,  Edwige  Rodelinda  , Varvara Kat’a Kabanova  , Pauline Queen of Spades and Olga  Eugene Onegin, which she has also sung for the Royal Opera House and Canadian Opera Company. Louise also enjoys a strong relationship with ENO, where roles have included Carmen Carmen and Marguerite  La Damnation de Faust. 

Most recently Louise has begun working on more dramatic repertoire, including Brangäne  Tristan und Isolde, Venus Tannhäuser,  Preziosilla  La Forza del Destino  and LadyMacbeth in Ernst Bloch’s Macbeth  for Frankfurt Opera. 

Louise enjoys concert work with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis, the Hallé Orchestra with Mark Elder, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Sir CharlesMackerras, and has taken part in many of the BBC Proms over the last decade. Recital engagements have included appearances at the Wigmore Hall, St John's, Smith Square, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Bath, Belfast and City of London Festivals and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. 

Louise’s recordings include a disc of songs by Frank Bridge for Hyperion Records with pianist Roger Vignoles, and DVD recordings of Rodelinda conducted by William Christie, and Eugene Onegin and Kat’a Kabanova conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. 

Recent and future highlights include performances of Dido Dido and Aeneas in London’s Temple Festival, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony  with Carlo Rizzi, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in York Minster, Mozart’s Requiem at Cadogan Hall, Verdi’s Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall with David Hill and the Bach Choir, and Mahler’s Rückert Lieder conducted by Paul McCreesh...