Photo: Sussie Ahlburg
Louise Poole
Representation: General Management
Born in North Yorkshire, Louise studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the National Opera Studio. Her many awards include the Nicholas John and Peter Stuyvesant scholarships, the Sybil Tutton Prize and The Glyndebourne Wessex award.
Louise made her operatic debut as Tina in The Aspern Papers by Dominic Argento while still at the Guildhall, where other roles included Florence Pike Albert Herring, Solokha The Tsarina’s Shoes and Euryclée in Fauré’s Penelope. Subsequent appearances have included Marcellina The Marriage of Figaro at Garden Opera, Isabella L’Italiana in Algeri for Opera Project, Julia in Elizabeth MaConchy’s The Departure for Independent Opera (now available on Chandos), the title role in Carmen with London City Opera in association with Colombia Artists, Ruggiero Alcina for English Touring Opera, 2nd Witch Dido & Aeneas for Opera North, Olga Eugene Onegin for English National Opera and Opéra de Lille, Nancy Albert Herring and 3rd Lady Die Zauberflöte with Glyndebourne on Tour, Hippolyta A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Glyndebourne Festival, Flora La Traviata for Nationale Reisopera and for WNO, Nancy Albert Herring for Glyndebourne Festival. Further engagements include title role Carmen at the Royal Albert Hall and the o2 Arena and Rosette Manon for Scottish Opera. Recent engagements include Ottavia L’Incoronazione di Poppea for Glyndebourne on Tour, Dream of Gerontius at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Messiah at Canterbury Cathedral and 3rd Lady Die Zauberflöte for Garsington Opera.
Concert engagements have included Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi´s Gloria at St John’s Smith Square, Stravinsky’s Le Faune et La Bergère at The Adrian Boult Hall, a fund-raising gala at Buckingham Palace in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales, Mozart’s Requiem and Elgar’s The Apostles in Canterbury (recorded live and on release by Quartz), Messiah at Bridgewater Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall and with Sir David Willcocks at the Royal Albert Hall, Verdi Requiem in Leicester, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 at the Barbican Hall and the Cadogan Hall, Dream of Gerontius in Truro, Beethoven Mass in C in Keele, Elgar The Kingdom at Snape Maltings, the UK premiere of Maxwell Davies Canticum Cantorum at Leeds Town Hall for BBC Radio 3, Serenade to Music for the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and 3rd Fury/Woman in Act 2 of Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus at the BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall.
Engagements in 2011/2012 include Goffredo Rinaldo for Glyndebourne on Tour, Bach Magnificat in Sandefjord, Megacle in Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade with La Serenissima and Mozart Requiem (Cadogan Hall). Louise will also sing 2nd Secretary in Nixon in China at the BBC Promenade Concerts in 2012, conducted by John Adams.
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