LouiseAlder
Contact
Keiron Cooke
Olivia Fitzsimons
Ivo Ivanov
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
About Louise
Louise Alder studied at the Royal College of Music International Opera School where she was the inaugural Kiri Te Kanawa Scholar. She won the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the 2017 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and the Young Singer Award at the 2017 International Opera Awards.
Recent highlights have included Susanna Le nozze di Figaro for the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and the Opernhaus Zürich; Zerlina Don Giovanni for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Teatro Real in Madrid; Gretel Hänsel und Gretel and Marzelline Fidelio for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Sophie Der Rosenkavalier for the Wiener Staatsoper and the Glyndebourne Festival; Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress for the Glyndebourne Festival and Cleopatra Giulio Cesare for the Theater an der Wien and Oper Frankfurt. In concert she has sung with the London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko, the New York Philharmonic/Harry Bicket and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Gardiner.
Her recital appearances include the BBC Proms, Graz Musikverein and the Oper Frankfurt with Gary Matthewman, Wigmore Hall with both Joseph Middleton and James Baillieu, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg with Daniel Heide and the Oxford Lieder Festival and Fundación Privada Victoria de los Ángeles in Barcelona with Sholto Kynoch.
In the 2023/24 season she curates a season-long residency at London’s Wigmore Hall.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Video
Louise Alder performs ‘Myself I Shall Adore’ from Handel Semele
Credit: Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras
PlayingLouise Alder performs ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ from Handel Alcina
Credit: Royal Opera House
PlayingLouise Alder & Joseph Middleton perform Strauss Four Last Songs
Credit: Leeds Lieder Festival
PlayingLouise alder and Joseph Middleton perform Strauss Four Last Songs
Credit: Leeds Lieder
PlayingLouise Alder performs Liszt's 'Tre sonetti di Petrarca'
Credit: BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
Playing
Audio
- Strauss - Ständchen
- Strauss - Meinem Kinde
- Strauss - Breit’ über mein Haupt
Selected Repertoire
| Beethoven | Fidelio (Marzelline) |
|---|---|
| Bizet | Carmen (Micaëla) |
| Blow | Venus and Adonis (Venus) |
| Britten | Albert Herring (Miss Wordsworth) • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tytania) • The Rape of Lucretia (Female Chorus) • The Turn of the Screw (Governess) |
| Cavalli | La Calisto (title role) |
| Cesti | L’Orontea (Silandra) |
| Donizetti | L’Elisir D’Amore (Adina) |
| Gluck | Orfeo (Euridice) |
| Handel | Agrippina (Poppea) • Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra) • Imeneo (Clomiri) • Rodelinda (title role) • Semele (title role) • Theodora (title role) • Xerxes (Romilda) |
| Humperdink | Hansel und Gretel (Gretel) |
| Janáček | The Cunning Little Vixen (title role) |
| Luigi Rossi | Orpheus (Euridice) |
| Monteverdi | L’incoronazione di Poppea (title role) |
| Mozart | Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) • Don Giovanni (Zerlina, Donna Anna) • Idomeneo (Ilia) • Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna, Contessa) • Die Zauberflöte (Pamina) |
| Puccini | La bohème (Musetta) |
| Rameau | Zaïs (Zélidie) |
| Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie) |
| Stravinsky | The Rake’s Progress (Anne Trulove) |
| Verdi | Falstaff (Nannetta) |
News
Press
Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna)
Bayerische StaatsoperOct 2023 - Oct 2023Susanna ist Louise Alder ... mit gereiftem, energischem Sopran. Susanna is Louise Alder ... with a mature, energetic soprano.
- Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau
- 09 November 2023
Louise Alder wusste als Susanna zauberhaft Sanftmut und Überlegenheit zu kombinieren; voll quirliger Spielfreude oder empfindsamer Empathie wie im Duettino „Che soave zeffiretto” mit Rosina. As Susanna, Louise Alder knew how to magically combine gentleness and superiority; full of lively joy of playing or sensitive empathy as in the duet “Che soave zeffiretto” with Rosina.
- Michael Vieth, Bachtrack
- 31 October 2023
hervorragend schauspielerisch wie sängerisch Louise Alder. Louise Alder, an excellent actor and singer.
- Hans-Günter Melchior, Ioco
- 01 November 2023
Louise Alder canta Susanna in modo affascinante, con voce piena ed energica. Louise Alder sings Susanna charmingly, with a full and energetic voice.
- Susanne Krekel, L’Ape musicale
- 16 November 2023
Louise Alder singt die Partie der Susanne beweglich und höhensicher. Louise Alder sings the part of Susanne with flexibility and confidence in pitch.
- Oliver Bernhardt, Klassik
- 05 November 2023
Louise Alder gestaltet die Susanna mit leuchtendem Sopran und großer Strahlkraft besonders im hohen Register. Louise Alder sings Susanna with a luminous soprano and great charisma, especially in the high register.
- Adele Bernhard, Opern Magazin
- 27 October 2023
