Alice Coote

The mezzo-soprano Alice Coote is equally acclaimed for her opera performances and for her work as a concert singer and recitalist. She performs regularly at prestigious opera houses, festivals and concert halls throughout Europe and the USA, including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Salzburg Festival, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York. She has sung with the London, Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras and with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
Her operatic repertory includes roles such as the title role of Carmen, Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Charlotte (Werther), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Sesto and Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Sesto (Giulio Cesare) and Le Prince Charmant in Massenet’s Cendrillon.
Alice Coote’s wide-ranging discography includes recordings of Mahler’s song cycles, Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody and Schubert’s Winterreise, along with Hänsel und Gretel (Hänsel), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Nerone) and the album The Power of Love. An English Songbook.
Recent engagements have included Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice) for Opera North, Handel’s Agrippina at the Hamburg State Opera, Mère Marie in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Zurich Opera House and Madame de Croissy in the same opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
She has also sung Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the Sinfonia of London under John Wilson at the Barbican Centre, Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Philharmonia Orchestra under John Eliot Gardiner and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She has appeared with the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder in Verdi’s Requiem and Elgar’s The Apostles and The Dream of Gerontius.
In autumn 2023 Alice Coote will return to Covent Garden to perform Storgé in Handel’s Jephtha. In 2018 she was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for services to music.