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Elizabeth Roberts

Primary Skill:

Soprano

Nationality:

British

Country:

United Kingdom

Languages (fluent):

English, Italian

Elizabeth made her BBC Radio 3 debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in the London premiere of Birtwistle’s The Second Mrs Kong (Terror/First Woman), conducted by Martyn Brabbins and directed by Kenneth Richardson. Elizabeth also appears on two recordings with the BBCSO: Chausson’s opera Le roi Arthus under Leon Botstein; and Josef Marx’s Herbstchor an Pan under Jiří Bĕlohlávek. She was honoured to be chosen as soprano soloist at the entry of the Olympic Flame and the lighting of the cauldron, performing with Dame Evelyn Glennie, in the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

She made her Italian stage debut as Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi) under Nicoletta Conti at the Teatro di Monteleone di Spoleto and touring Umbria. In 2012 she debuted in Spain as Salome in Massenet's Hérodiade in Valladolid under Francisco Lara. Other operatic roles include: Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) for Headfirst Productions; Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly) under Harry Ogg for Les Heures Musicales d'Aujols, France, Opera South East and Regents Opera; Tosca (Tosca) for New London Opera Players; Mimì (La bohème) for Headfirst Productions and Opus One Opera; Countess of Dunmow (A Dinner Engagement) for Minotaur Music Theatre; Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Musetta (La bohème), The Plaintiff (Trial by Jury) and Mabel (Pirates of Penzance) for Hand Made Opera; Adina (L’Elisir d’amore); Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro); Zerlina (Don Giovanni), conducted by Alistair Dawes; Queen of the Gypsies (The Bohemian Girl); and Clorinda (La Cenerentola).

Elizabeth is also an accomplished recitalist. In 2010 she was one of seven singers selected for a week of intensive study of song repertoire with Malcolm Martineau at Crear. She premiered Keith Burstein’s cycle Songs of Love & Solitude with Julian Gallant at Pushkin House London in November 2012. In December 2012 she gave a recital of songs by Strauss, Debussy and Weill with Kelvin Lim in the Crush Room of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. More recently, she has been performing some of the great song repertoire with orchestra including in 2019 Mahler Knabenwunderhorn songs with the Scottish Sinfonia in Edinburgh, his Rückert Lieder with the Colchester Symphony Orchestra, and in spring 2020 Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder with Brent Symphony Orchestra and Camden Symphony Orchestra.

Elizabeth’s oratorio repertoire spans from Mozart's great choral works to Tippett’s A Child of Our Time via Verdi's Requiem and Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Working with conductors such as Paul McCreesh, Jonathan Willcocks and Adrian Partington, she has performed in many of the great venues and festivals throughout the UK, including St John's Smith Square, Christ Church Spitalfields (Mozart K528 Bella mia fiamma and Beethoven Symphony No. 9), Durham Cathedral (Beethoven Missa Solemnis), Truro Cathedral (Haydn Stabat Mater), Dorchester Abbey (Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Verdi's Requiem) and Tewkesbury Abbey (Orff Carmina Burana, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony). Outside the UK, concert performances have taken her to Darmstadt for Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony with the Konzertchor Darmstadt and Philharmonie Südwestfalen under Wolfgang Seeliger; to All Saints English Church, Rome for Bach’s Johannes Passion, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem; and to Spoleto (Vaughan Williams, Berkshire (USA) Choral Festival). In 2012 she performed Orff’s Carmina Burana in Beijing with the Peking Sinfonietta under Nicholas Smith OBE.

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