Louise Booker - Mezzo Soprano
Louise graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with a first class BMus Hons degree. She now continues her vocal training with Robert Dean.
Returning to Opera Holland Park this year, Louise sang the role of Rita the Rat in their production of Tobias Picker’s Fantastic Mr Fox, performing at both Opera Holland Park and Alex James’ festival ‘Harvest’. She also worked in their production’s of Donizetti Don Pasquale and Mascagni L’amico Fritz.
Louise has played the roles of Chloe in Laura Bowler's Anything Money Can Buy at both RNCM and the Opera Tête à Tête festival, Pepik in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen and the Police Constable in Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera (RNCM), Second boy in Mozart's The Magic Flute (LFO) and Second Witch in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (MJUK). Louise’s chorus appearances include Bizet's Carmen and Debussy's Pelleas et Melissande (OHP), Stravinsky's The Rake’s Progress (BYO), Bernstein's Candide (RNCM), Puccini's Tosca (LFO), Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Puccini's La Rondine (RNCM). Louise’s opera excerpt experience has been Octavian in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier with the RNCM Concert Orchestra and in a staged excerpt performance, Carmen in Ardingly International Music School’s production of Bize'st Carmen, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, The Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Arnalta in The Corontion of Poppea (RNCM).
Louise has appeared in concert across the UK, highlights of which include her solo appearance for Ian Venables' Awake, awake, the world is young at Tewkesbury Abbey and Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer with the Derby Concert Orchestra.
Since July 2009, Louise has sung regularly with the Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood, in Wiltshire, Northamptonshire and Hampshire. She has also appeared with the Royal Corps of Signals Band at the Shrivenham Defence Academy’s annual music and fireworks concert, with continued requests to return each year.
Oratorio solo appearances have included Mozart's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Nelson Mass, Handel's Dixit Dominus, Bach's Cantata No.172, Handel's Messiah and Handel's Israel in Egypt. Her choral appearances include Edward Gregson's Dance Forever the Dance at the Bridgewater Hall, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe and Debussy's Sirens under Jac van Steen, Mozart's Requiem at the Bridgewater hall under Sir Colin Davis and the supporting choir behind Paul Potts at the Royal Variety Show 2007.
Later in the year Louise will appear as the soloist for Mozart's Requiem and Vespers at Tewkesbury Abbey.
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