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 (released by 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 at English National Opera, Nancy Albert Herring and Third Lady Die Zauberflöte with Glyndebourne on Tour, Hippolyta A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Glyndebourne Festival, Flora La Traviata for Nationale Reisopera and Nancy Albert Herring for Glyndebourne Festival. Recent engagements include Dritte Dame Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne on Tour and an Opera Gala concert for the Barbican, title role Carmen for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall and Rosette Manon for Scottish 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, Elgar The Kingdom at Snape Maltings, the UK premier of Maxwell Davies Canticum Cantorum at Leeds Town Hall for BBC Radio 3 and Serenade to Music for the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
Engagements in 2009/2010 include 3rd Fury/Woman in Act 2 of Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus at the BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, Flora La Traviata for Welsh National Opera, Olga Eugene Onegin for Opéra de Lille and Théâtre de Caen and title role Carmen at the o2 Arena. Subsequent engagements include Ottavia L’Incoronazione di Poppea for Glyndebourne on Tour.
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