AliceCoote
Representation
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.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Video
Alice Coote performs Britten's 'Phaedra'
Credit: Southbank Centre
PlayingAlice Coote performs “Ayez la bonté de relever ce coussin” from Dialogues des Carmélites
Credit: Metropolitan Opera
PlayingAlice Coote sings 'Nam zvyozdi krotkiye siyali' with Ralph Fiennes
Credit: Wigmore Hall
PlayingAlice Coote performs 'Non piu di fiori' from Mozarts La clemenza di Tito
Credit: Glyndebourne Opera House
PlayingAlice Coote sings Rückert-Lieder No. 4 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen'
Credit: NAXOS of America
Playing
Selected Repertoire
Bach | B Minor Mass • Christmas Oratorio • Magnificat • St Matthew Passion |
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Beethoven | Missa Solemnis • Symphony No. 9 |
Berg | Sieben frühe Lieder |
Berlioz | Les nuits d’été |
Brahms | Alto Rhapsody |
Britten | Phaedra |
Chausson | Poème de l'amour et de la mer |
Elgar | The Apostles (Mary Magdalene) • The Dream of Gerontius • Sea Pictures |
Handel | Jeptha (Storge) • Messiah • Theodora (Irene) |
Haydn | Nelson Mass |
Janáček | Glagolitic Mass |
Mahler | Fahrenden Gesellen • Kindertotenlieder • Des Knaben Wunderhorn • Das Lied von der Erde • Rückert-Lieder • Symphony No. 2 • Symphony No. 3 • Symphony No. 8 (Mulier Samaritana) |
Mendelssohn | Elijah |
Pergolesi | Alexander Nevsky • Stabat Mater |
Ravel | Shéhérazade |
Rossini | Stabat Mater |
Schoenberg | Gurre-Lieder |
Stravinsky | Les Noces |
Tippett | A Child of Our Time |
Vaughan Williams | Serenade to Music |
Verdi | Requiem |
Wagner | Wesendonck Lieder |
News
Press
Mahler | Symphony No. 2 - London Symphony Orchestra
Barbican, LondonOct 2024The 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.
- Neil Fisher, The Times
- 21 October 2024
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...
- Erica Jeal, The Guardian
- 21 October 2024
...the woodwinds shone, particularly Juliana Koch (oboe) in response to Alice Coote’s hushed delivery of Urlicht, the mezzo’s dynamic control superb.
- Mark Pullinger, Bachtrack
- 21 October 2024
Alice Coote was beyond celestial in the Urlicht; her volume control is the best of any current mezzo.
- Norman Lebrecht, Slipped Disc
- 20 October 2024
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.
- Dr Diana Carroll, ArtsHub
- 23 October 2024
Alice Coote delivered her Urlicht immaculately, with the clearest of diction, impressive volume control and perfect intonation, a highlight of the symphony.
- John Rhodes, Seen and Heard International
- 21 October 2024
Discography
- Michael Berkeley: Collaborations
- Britten: Spring Symphony
- Elgar: Gerontius
- Schubert: 21 Songs
- Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (blu-ray)
- Mahler Song Cycles
- L'heure exquise
- Elgar: Sea Pictures
- Schumann Lieder
- Muhly: Two Boys
- Handel Arias
- Schubert Winterreise D911
- Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Elgar: The Apostles, Op. 49
- The Power of Love: An English Songbook
- Massenet: Cendrillon
- Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
- Brahms Works for Viola II
- Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
- Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ' Resurrection'
- Strauss: Adriane on Naxos
- Handel: Messiah
- Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38
- Handel: The Choice of Hercules