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If people singing on stage within a theatre piece is shocking then, yes, opera is shocking, but at the same time no-one can deny what happens when the greatest singers in the world perform. But it is one that can move humans in ways that they cannot explain.” Can you even begin to explain? She sings both operatic roles, particularly trouser roles, and recital repertoire, often with pianist Julius Drake. 1, Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht, Rückert-Lieder: No. Alice Coote as Orlando and Suzanna McNaughton as Venus in Orlando at the Royal Opera House, 2003. "Singers and teachers know that being underweight is far more damaging to a singer's wellbeing and performance than being overweight. Equally famed on the great operatic stages as in concert and recital she has been named the ‘superlative British Mezzo’ (San Francisco Chronicle). Maybe if you have a secure home life with a family the back’n’forth might be easier but it’s very difficult to judge. She attended London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music, and the National Opera Studio. The album of Handel arias you did with Harry Bicket and the English Concert Orchestra last year was well received. Thank you, Alice Coote, for an excellent open letter. She’s been very much drawn to Handel’s explorations of sexuality so it seemed like the perfect project. 8 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla; Sarah in Robert Devereux with the Los Angeles Opera; Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; In recital; Alice will perform at the St Andrew’s Voices Festival with Christian Blackshaw; at the Wigmore Hall with Julius Drake and at 92nd Street Y in New York with Eric Owens and Julius Drake.

Composers from Handel to Humperdinck found in the female voice a quality that illuminated their male characters, while the thrill of the sexual ambiguity and also the beauty of the sound appealed to audiences. Alice Coote is a British mezzo-soprano, known equally as an operatic performer and an art song interpreter. It has made it complex for me to return to daily life as a woman: I feel in sharp relief the way a heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual or transgender woman’s personal and public relationship power is utterly unlike that of a heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual or transgender male’s expectations and power relationship to the world. Meanwhile, Coote's career on stages and recordings continued to develop. Alice Coote Händel Arien The English Concert Harry Bicket € 19,90 So eine Luxusbesetzung verdient die bereits etablierte und oft auch schon in München reüssierende Mezzosopranistin Alice Coote mit dem English Concert unter dem Barockspezialisten Harry Bicket … Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote is regarded as one of the great artists of our day. Not really, no. All my colleagues acknowledge it’s the hardest part of the job.

She grew up in Cheshire, born to two painters, Mark Coote and Mary Moss, and learned her craft at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio.

It may be that I and other singers in similar roles appear stronger or more powerful or more sexualised because of our awareness of how to use our bodies and play with the idea of male sexuality – and that empowerment elicits excitement. She will also give several recitals including a programme of Schubert with Julius Drake at Mogens Dahl, Copenhagen, and an evening of Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Brahms, and Mahler with Christian Blackshaw at Wigmore Hall, London. Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote is regarded as one of the great artists of our day. She grew up in Cheshire, born to two painters, Mark Coote and Mary Moss, and learned her craft at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio. It’s an odd subliminal phenomenon.

To include such gems 'Le Temps de Lilas', 'A Coote was Hallé Associate Artist for the 2019/20 season during which she will perform; Berlioz Roméo et Juliet; Bach’s B Minor Mass; Mahler Symphony No.3. It used to be a much more lonely affair. Overleaf: watch Alice Coote perform "Under The Shade" from Handel's Xerxes in rehearsal with the ENO in 2014. Only 24 hours? Photograph: Tristram Kenton/for the Guardian.

The other thing that comes across in your interviews is it’s a somewhat lonely life, doing what you do – would that be a fair assessment?

We wanted to do something baroque to explore gender because I’ve spent my whole life playing men. There are at least 70 of them in the repertory, and they are by no means limited to baroque opera.

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I have been on the receiving end of many forms of sexual fascination in response to my trouser-wearing in opera, mainly from women and gay men. When I have experienced that and it’s great, it’s truly extraordinary. 3, Ich hab' ein glühend Messer, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: No. Coote will be a Hallé Associate Artist for the 2019/20 season during which she will perform; Berlioz Roméo et Juliet; Bach’s B Minor Mass; Mahler Symphony No.3.

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This may mean I choose a sound colour that is drier or more taut or less emotional in some senses if the character seems to require it.

She has recorded mostly for Hyperion and Pentatone, participating in a pair of acclaimed Mahler recordings on the latter label.

You have said of opera, “This is not, in any case, a believable art form.

This pertains to musicals as well. After two decades of male transformation I don’t feel it is. Alice Coote OBE (born 10 May 1968)[1][2] is a British lyric[3] mezzo-soprano. She’s a novelist, a director, she has been a singer so she knows this career, singing this particular repertoire around Europe and America. The Bridgewater Hall But it’s confusing ... Having been stepping into male eyes for two decades now for around 70% of my working life I, by necessity, have had to dwell in a place where my mind feels increasingly separate from my sexual body. I love the cultural diversity of Brighton and the fact they embrace the forefront of anything cultural going on in this country.

I get paid to flatten my breasts, dress up as a man, make love to other women, all the while singing athletically elaborate music without a microphone.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Riccardo Muti, Alice Coote mezzo-soprano. It’s exciting but daunting.

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