Alice Coote

English mezzo-soprano Alice Coote made her Royal Opera debut in 2002 as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) in Bernard Haitink’s farewell performance. She has since sung Dryad (Ariadne auf Naxos), Orlando, Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Prince Charmant (Cendrillon) and Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). 

Coote grew up in Cheshire and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has performed with all the major UK opera companies and for Paris Opéra, Metropolitan Opera, New York, Chicago Lyric Opera, the opera companies of Amsterdam, Geneva, Frankfurt, Munich, Toronto, Los Angeles and San Francisco and at the Salzburg Festival, among others. Roles in addition to her Royal Opera repertory include Poppea and Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Ariodante, Ruggiero (Alcina), Dejanira (Hercules), Gluck’s Orfeo, Idamante (Idomeneo), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Léonor (La Favorite), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust), Carmen, Charlotte (Werther), Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia). 

Coote sings worldwide in concert and recital, with orchestras including London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The English Concert, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Hallé and the Concertgebouw, with such conductors as Pierre Boulez, Christoph von Dohnányi, Mark Elder, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She is a regular guest in recital at venues including the Wigmore Hall (where she has been resident artist), Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, the Lincoln Center and the Mariinsky Festival.