Allison Cook Mezzo Soprano
Allison Cook is consolidating an impressive international reputation, with recent highlights including ANGELICA La Cenerentola for Shanghai International Arts Center, ADALGISA Norma in Holland, BABA THE TURK and MOTHER GOOSE The Rakes’ Progress in Paris, and her critically-acclaimed creation of the role of MARIA in Music Theatre Wales’ production of Michael Berkeley’s For You. Future engagements for this multi-facetted artist include the role of MELISSA in Anthony Turnage’s new opera Anna Nicole, for the Royal Opera Covent Garden.
Website - www.allisoncook.co.uk/Welcome.html
Allison Cook is consolidating an impressive international reputation, with recent highlights including ANGELICA La Cenerentola for Shanghai International Arts Center, ADALGISA Norma in Holland, BABA THE TURK and MOTHER GOOSE The Rakes’ Progress in Paris, and her critically-acclaimed creation of the role of MARIA in Music Theatre Wales’ production of Michael Berkeley’s For You. Future engagements for this multi-facetted artist include the role of MELISSA in Anthony Turnage’s new opera Anna Nicole, for the Royal Opera Covent Garden.
Significant appearances have included the world premiere of Peter Eötvös’ Le Balcon at Aix-en-Provence, SOEUR MATHILDE Les dialogues des Carmélites for Opéra National du Rhin, KNAPPE and BLUMENMÄDCHEN (Parsifal), and GARCIAS Don Quichotte, both at L’Opéra de la Bastille, Paris (conducted by James Conlon), DER KOMPONIST Ariadne auf Naxos for Opéra National du Rhin, as well as the roles of VALETTO and FORTUNA in Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea in Aix-en-Provence, conducted by Marc Minkowski. Other appearances have included Vienna, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Opéra National de Paris, and Opéra de Nancy, where she appeared as DER TROMMLER Der Kaiser von Atlantis.
In addition, she sang the title role in L'incoronazione di Poppea for Aix en Provence, BABA THE TURK The Rake’s Progress in Portugal and France, and the title role in Bizet’s Carmen for Glyndebourne on Tour, for whom she also sang the role of ORLOFSKY Die Fledermaus. Other appearances of note have included the title-role in John Browne’s Babette’s Feast and KATE JULIAN Owen Wingrave for the Linbury Studio of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
More recently she sang the role of AMASTRE in Handel’s Serse for Opera Theatre Company, Ireland, in addition to covering the role of GESCHWITZ for the Royal Opera’s production of Lulu, and a gala of Zarzuela with the Münchner Symphoniker, both in 2009.
Her concert appearances have included the Savonnlinna Festival and BBC Proms, where she sang Vaughan-Williams’ Serenade to Music with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
Website - www.allisoncook.co.uk/Welcome.html
Audio file: Allison Cook
To make an enquiry, please call 0208 771 5271 or, alternatively, complete the form below and Athole Still Opera will contact you: