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Nicholas Moloney

Nicholas Moloney

Senior Artist Manager
Megan Steller

Megan Steller

Associate Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Alice

Established as a major star across both operatic and concert stages, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote is regarded as one of the great artists of our time. Coote has performed major roles on stages such as the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, LA Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Salzburg Festival. Equally acclaimed on the concert stage, she has performed with orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, The Hallé and The Concertgebouw.

The 24/25 season will see Coote perform Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra, before returning to the operatic stage in The Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg's Così fan tutte (Dorabella); followed by two productions of Semele (Juno) for the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Royal Ballet and Opera.

Engagements in the 23/24 season included Storge Jephtha  at the Royal Opera House; Mahler Symphony No. 3 with Robin Ticciati and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and Mass in C Minor with Dinis Sousa and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra; and Mahler Symphony No. 3 with Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Driven by her passion for exploring and challenging gender stereotypes in characterisation, Coote is renowned for her interpretations of some of opera's most important male and female roles. She brings that same philosophy to her work on the recital platform, an essential extension of Coote's musical life. Committed to audience development and redefining genre barriers, last season Coote premiered her latest project, 'The Rebellious Recital': a song recital including works by Mahler, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Bach and John Lennon at the Wigmore Hall.

In 2018, she was awarded an OBE for services to music.

Alice is based in the United Kingdom

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Dec 2024
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
Così fan tutte (Dorabella)
Feb 2025
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
Semele (Juno)
Apr 2025
King's Place, London
Das Lied von der Erde

Selected Repertoire

BachB Minor Mass   •   Christmas Oratorio   •   Magnificat   •   St Matthew Passion
BeethovenMissa Solemnis   •   Symphony No. 9
BergSieben frühe Lieder
BerliozLes nuits d’été
BrahmsAlto Rhapsody
BrittenPhaedra
ChaussonPoème de l'amour et de la mer
ElgarThe Apostles (Mary Magdalene)   •   The Dream of Gerontius   •   Sea Pictures
HandelJeptha (Storge)   •   Messiah   •   Theodora (Irene)
HaydnNelson Mass
JanáčekGlagolitic Mass
MahlerFahrenden Gesellen   •   Kindertotenlieder   •   Des Knaben Wunderhorn   •   Das Lied von der Erde   •   Rückert-Lieder   •   Symphony No. 2   •   Symphony No. 3   •   Symphony No. 8 (Mulier Samaritana)
MendelssohnElijah
PergolesiAlexander Nevsky   •   Stabat Mater
RavelShéhérazade
RossiniStabat Mater
SchoenbergGurre-Lieder
StravinskyLes Noces
TippettA Child of Our Time
Vaughan WilliamsSerenade to Music
VerdiRequiem
WagnerWesendonck Lieder

News

Press

  • Mahler | Symphony No. 2 - London Symphony Orchestra

    Barbican, London
    Oct 2024
    • The watershed moment came in the first sung movement, Urlicht, the words of this poem sung by Alice Coote like they were being wrenched out of her. The mezzo-soprano really did inhabit both music and text as if her life depended on it — and took the whole performance into another gear.

    • It was with Alice Coote’s incisive, forward singing of the fourth movement, on the edge of vulnerability, that the performance found its emotional depth...

    • ...the woodwinds shone, particularly Juliana Koch (oboe) in response to Alice Coote’s hushed delivery of Urlicht, the mezzo’s dynamic control superb.

    • Alice Coote was beyond celestial in the Urlicht; her volume control is the best of any current mezzo.

    • Guest mezzo-soprano Alice Coote OBE stood for the fourth, giving a considered reading of the text as she sang of life’s end. “Even more would I rather be in heaven,” sounds even more pained sung in German. Acclaimed as a star across both operatic and concert stages, Coote is regarded as one of the great singers of our time.

    • Alice Coote delivered her Urlicht immaculately, with the clearest of diction, impressive volume control and perfect intonation, a highlight of the symphony.