Gail Pearson Soprano
Renowned as one the most of the UK’s most respected and experienced sopranos, Gail Pearson’s remarkable career is testimony as much to her superb musicality as to her dramatic ability. She enjoyed both critical and public acclaim as ANN TRUELOVE The Rake’s Progress for Angers-Nantes Opéra (a role she also performed under the baton of the late Richard Hickox), while she extended her growing discography earlier this year by recording the role of ECHO Ariadne for Chandos. Her immediate future schedule includes a welcome return to Opera Holland Park as GARSENDA Francesca da Rimini.
Renowned as one the most of the UK’s most respected and experienced sopranos, Gail Pearson’s remarkable career is testimony as much to her superb musicality as to her dramatic ability. She enjoyed both critical and public acclaim as ANN TRUELOVE The Rake’s Progress for Angers-Nantes Opéra (a role she also performed under the baton of the late Richard Hickox), while she extended her growing discography earlier this year by recording the role of ECHO Ariadne for Chandos. Her immediate future schedule includes a welcome return to Opera Holland Park as GARSENDA Francesca da Rimini.
Gail’s extensive appearances in the UK have included GILDA Rigoletto (for WNO, ENO and Opera Holland Park), FRASQUITA Carmen (for WNO and ENO), LISETTE La Rondine (Opera North), MUSETTA La Bohème (ENO and WNO), PAMINA (Scottish Opera), NANETTA Falstaff (ENO), GRETEL Hansel und Gretel (WNO), OSCAR Un ballo in Maschera (WNO and Holland Park). She created the role of MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN in the world premiere of Sally Beamish’s Monster for Scottish Opera, a company for whom she also sang ASTERIA Tamerlano. For ENO she sang SALVATION ARMY GIRL From Morning to Midnight, KAREN A Better Place and POUSSETTE Manon, and ALYEYA in Janáček’s From the House of the Dead. For the Aldeburgh Festival she appeared as 2nd NIECE Peter Grimes, while for The Buxton Festival she sang ANNE PAGE The Merry Wives of Windsor, NORA Riders to the Sea and ALISON The Wandering Scholar. Other engagements have included AGILEA Teseo for English Touring Opera, as well as SOPHIE Werther, and IRIS Semele recorded on CD for Grange Park Opera. She has enjoyed a long and close association with The Royal Opera Covent Garden, with particular highlights including JANO Jenůfa, PEPIK The Cunning Little Vixen, 1ST PRIESTESS Iphigénie en Tauride, DIE STIMME DES FALKENS Die Frau ohne Schatten, BLUMENMÄDCHEN Parsifal, PAPAGENA Die Zauberflöte and PERNILLE Maskarade.
Highlights of her international engagements have included ARBATE Mitridate at the Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris, CAROLINE The Fairy Queen (ENO and Liceu Barcelona), ERSTER KNAPPE and BLUMENMÄDCHEN at the Opéra National de Paris, Bastille, JANO at the Opéra National de Lyon, FIRST NIECE Peter Grimes for Opéra de Nancy and OBERTO Alcina for Opernhaus Zürich.
Gail’s concert work includes numerous successful collaborations with the Raymond Gubbay organisation, Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cherubini’s Medée with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Mackerras) at the Salzburg Festival, OBERTO with the Academy of Ancient Music (Paul Goodwin) in Poissy and Montreux. With the Philharmonia she sang Gloriana (Hickox) and Elijah (Sawallisch), Messiah with the City of London Sinfonia and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (also conducted by Richard Hickox). Her recordings include IRIS Semele recorded for Grange Park Opera, Vaughan Williams’ The Poisoned Kiss (Hickox) and Jenůfa for Covent Garden, conducted by Sir Bernard Haitink.
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