Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote is regarded as one of the great artists of our day. Equally famed on the great operatic stages as in concert and recital, she has been named the »superlative British Mezzo« (San Francisco Chronicle). Her performances have been described as »breath-taking in [their] sheer conviction and subtlety of perception« (The Times).
The recital platform is central to her musical life. She performs throughout the UK, Europe and the US; at Wigmore Hall (where she has been a resident artist), the BBC Proms, The Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, among many other prestigious venues. Most recently, she debuted Schubert’s Winterreise at »The Stars of the White Nights« Mariinsky Festival in St Petersburg.
She is acclaimed in particular for singing pieces by Strauss, Mahler, Berlioz, Mozart, Händel and Bach with orchestras such as London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and The Concertgebouw.
In her operatic engagements, Coote spends a large part of her time engaged abroad, and in the UK. She has performed roles at Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, English National Opera, Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House. In Europe, she has appeared at opera houses including Opéra de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Dutch National Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt and Salzburg Festival. USA and Canadian opera houses include Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company and the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
In the 2022/23 season, Coote will perform the role of Orfeo in a concert performance of »Orfeo ed Euridice« at Opera North and Madame de Croissy »Dialogues des Carmélites« at the Metropolitan Opera. On the concert platform, she will perform Verdi’s »Requiem« with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder; Elgar’s »Sea Pictures« with Philharmonia and John Eliot Gardiner; »The Dream of Gerontius« with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis, and the Ripon Choral Society; »Das Lied von der Erde« with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Her many recordings and DVD appearances include on CD: Mahler Song Cycles (Pentatone); »The Power of Love: An English Songbook« (Hyperion); Songs by Robert Schumann and Gustav Mahler (EMI); Mahler 2 (EMI); Brahms »Alto Rhapsody« (Tudor); Schubert’s »Winterreise« (Wigmore Hall Live); Mahler’s »Das Lied von der Erde« (Pentatone); and on DVD: Händel’s »Messiah« (EMI); Hansel in »Hansel and Gretel« (EMI); Nerone in »L’incoronazione di Poppea« (Decca); and Maffio Orsini in »Lucrezia Borgia« (Medici Arts).