Photo: Sussie Ahlburg
Louise Poole
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, Flora La Traviata, Isabella L’Italiana in Algeri for Opera Project, Julia in Elizabeth MaConchy’s The Departure for Independent Opera, 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 at English National Opera, Nancy Albert Herring and Third Lady Die Zauberflöte with Glyndebourne on Tour and Hippolyta A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Glyndebourne Festival.
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, Messiah at Bridgewater Hall, Verdi Requiem in Leicester and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 at the Barbican Hall, London.
Engagements in 2008 include Flora La Traviata for National Reisopera, further performances of Nancy for Glyndebourne Festival, Dream of Gerontius in Truro, Serenade to Music at the BBC Proms and Dritte Dame Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne on Tour. Subsequent engagement include title role Carmen for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall, Rosette Manon for Scottish Opera and Flora La Traviata for Welsh National Opera.
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Email: Lucy Goddard
