Laura Alonso (soprano)

Laura Alonso (born 02 January 1976) is a Spanish soprano.

Laura Alonso, soprano (2009)

Vita

Spanish soprano Laura Alonso was born in Villagarcía de Arosa (Galicia). She graduated both in singing and violin. She later went on to the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe (Germany) with a scholarship from the prestigious Alexander von Humbolt Foundation to study with Aldo Baldin, Anna Reynolds and Jean Cox and lied with Hartmut Höll, among other masters.

At 23 years of age she joined the „ensemble“ of the Aalto Theater in Essen (Germany) where she sang Mimí in La Bohème, Gilda in Rigoletto, Susanna in Figaro, Zdenka in Arabella, Pamina in The Magic Flute and Blanche in Carmelites, among other roles and numerous concerts. At the aforementioned Theatre, she got the Best Artist Award by popular acclaim and she will sing again in the Ruhr 2010 European City of Culture in Essen at the Aalto Theatre.

She now sings regularly at internationally renowned Auditoriums and theatres such as the Auditorium in Rishon Le Zion (Israel), Teatro Bellas Artes in Mexico, Teatro de Guanajuato, Philharmonie de Cologne, Musikhalle in Hamburg, Konzerthaus and Philharmonie in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Dortmund and Essen, Kuppel Saal in Hannover (Germany), Herodes Aticus in Athens, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Los Angeles Auditorium (USA), Palau de Valencia and Barcelona, among others.

Ms. Alonso has won several singing awards at international competitions, among which we can highlight her First Prize in the last Alfredo Kraus Competition as well as the Franco Corelli, Verviers or Jaume Aragall Competitions.

She currently performs with conductors of international acclaim such as Ion Marin, Philipp Jordan, Stefan Soltesz, Zoltan Peszko,Víctor Pablo Pérez, Heiko Matthias Förster, Frühbeck de Burgos, Carlos Kalmar or Jiri Kôut at leading European Theatres (Pisa, Düsseldorf, Mannheim, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Nancy, Braunschweig, Poissy, Freiburg, Lübeck, Liceu, Breno, etc.), performing several Opera roles such as Antonia, Zerbinetta, Susanna, Oscar, Lucia, Lulú, Giulia, Nannetta, Sophie, Elvira, Amina, or Violetta in La Traviata.

She has collaborated with stage directors as A. Pilavachi, De Tomasi, Johannes Schaaf, Pontiggia, Berndt, Schlingensief o Hilsdorf at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Tenerife Festivals, at the Festival in Royaumont, Bregenzer Festspiele, Maestranza in Sevilla, at the Expo in Hannover, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Ille de France Festival, Santander Festival, at the Autumn Festival in Madrid and the Opera Week in Berlin, among other musical events.

Among her most recent roles, we can highlight Giulia in La Scala di Seta, performed during a tour with the Freiburger Barockorchester under the baton of Attilio Cremonesi. Furthermore, she excelled at the Berlin Staatsoper with Ariadne auf Naxos. With her debut at the Innsbruck Festival (Austria) in the role of Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare by Antonio Sartorio, she won the Diapason D´or, awarded by the French critics, and the CD obtained a great success.

Other special achievements include her role as Magda in La Rondine, which she performed recently in Utrecht (Netherlands) with the T.R.O.S. and Gómez Martínez as conductor, as well as her Salzburg performance in the role of Sandrina, in La Finta Giardiniera, on the occasion of Mozart Year 2006 with Doris Dörrie as stage manager.

Other recent performances have taken place in Santander and La Coruña with the Opera Carmen and also in La Coruña the Spanish Premiere of The rescue of Penelope, by Britten.

She has performed in some of the most important Auditoriums and Theatres in Spain, and at the end of 2007, she sang belcanto repertoire in the Opera Hall at Valladolid Auditorium, with the conductor Alejandro Posada and Canarian tenor Celso Albelo with duets and arias from Lakmé, Rigoletto, Elisir d´amore and Semiramide, alongside the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León.

She devotes most of the year to giving recitals and concerts. Next music key events are a Liederabend at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, and another one at the Auditorio Conde Duque with the conductor Manuel Burgueras, as well as several Spanish music concerts in the United States.

Her most ambitious recording project was the Belcanto Arias Album „Col sorriso d´innocenza“, in collaboration with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga, which was published in December 2006, obtaining excellent reviews among the Opera specialised international press.

The record label Columna Musica has recently released her CD collection of Galician songs „Lúa descolorida“, and another one will be released shortly with Spanish repertoire.

Among her next performances are Brahms Requiem, Handel‘s Messiah, Mahler‘s Fourth Symphony, Haydn‘s Creation, and a Spanish Songs Concert alongside the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.

She has played the leading role as Rosario in her debut of the work Goyescas by Granados this year.

She has recently toured the main cities in Germany alongside the Chilean tenor Felipe Rojas, accompanied by the prestigious orchestra Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, singing exclusively Spanish “zarzuelas”.

Soon she will sing alongside the Orchestra da camera di Firenze works by Vivaldi under the direction of the Turkish Master Guven Yaslicam, and El retablo de Maese Pedro by Manuel de Falla in Tel Aviv, as well as playing the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Chile, under the direction of Donato Cabrera, among other commitments.

She will make her debut in the prestigious Alice Tully Hall in New York in November with the opera The Empty Hours by Ricardo Llorca.

A record is to be released shortly including the most beautiful songs composed by Pauline Viardot- García, accompanied at the piano by the prestigious Manuel Burgueras.

In 2011, Laura will perform at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as Lulú in Alban Berg‘s Opera, conducted by the American Music Director Stefan Lano and Stage Master Alfredo Arias.

Laura Alonso currently lives in Berlin and continues her musical training with Anna Reynolds and Irmgaard Hartmann.

Discography Music/CD

• Col sorriso d'innocenza Belcanto Arias by Laura Alonso. Conductor: Alexander Livenson. Orquesta Filarmónica de Malaga. Composers: i.e. Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti. Label: Columna Musica, Spain.
• Lua Descolorida Music from Galicia with Laura Alonso, soprano. Juan Manuel Varela, piano. Songs by Osvaldo Golijov and Antón García Abril. Label: Columna Musica, Spain.
• Antoloxía Vol. 1 A canción de Concerto: Antoloxía Vol. 1. Laura Alonso, soprano. Manuel Burgueras, piano. Cancións sobre textos literarios galegos. Edicións Xerais de Galicia.
• Na Boca Das Camelias Laura Alonso, soprano. Juan Manuel Varela, piano. Music from Galicia by various composers.
• Giulio Cesare Antonio Sartorio: Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Conductor: Attilio Cremonesi. Innsbrucker Barockfestspiele. Laura Alonso as Cleopatra. Label: ORF, Austria

Repertoire

Composer	Part	Performance(s)
Beethoven	Fidelio	Marzelline
Bellini	La Sonnambula I Puritani Beatrice di tenda Norma I Capuletti e i Montecchi Zaira La Straniera	Amina Elvira Beatrice Norma Giulietta Zaira Alaide
Berg		Lulú
Bizet	Carmen Les pecheurs des Perles	Micaela Leïla
Boito	Mefistofele	Margherita
Debussy	Pelleas et Melisande	Melisande
De Falla, Manuel	La vida breve El retablo de Maese Pedro	Salud
Delibes	Lakmé	Lakmé
Donizetti	Maria Stuarda Rita Lucia di Lammermoor L´elisir d´amore La fille du regiment Maria Padilla Pia di Tolomei Lucrezia Borgia Anna Bolena Linda di Chamounix Don Pasquale Matilde di Shabran Gemma di Vergy Sancia di Castiglia Roberto Devereux Il furioso all´Isola de San Domingo	Maria Rita Lucia Adina Marie Maria Pia Lucrezia Anna Linda Norina Matilde Gemma Sancia Elisabetta I Eleonora
Gounod	Faust Romeo et Juliette	Margherite Juliette
Granados, Enrique	Goyescas	Rosario
Händel	Rodelinda Alcina Giulio Cesare	Rodelinda Alcina Cleopatra
Humperdinck	Hänsel und Gretel	Gretel
Léhar	Die lustige Witwe	Beide Sopran-Partien
Llorca, Ricardo	Las horas vacías
Martín y Soler	Una cosa rara	Isabella, regina di Spagna
Massenet	Manon Thaïs Esclarmonde	Manon Thaïs Esclarmonde
Meyerbeer	Les Huguenots	Marghérite de Valois
Mozart	Die Zauberflöte Figaro Don Giovanni La clemenza di Tito Cosí fan tutte Idomeneo Mitridate La Finta Giardiniera Die Entführung aus dem Serail Zaide	Königin der Nacht; Pamina Susanna; Contessa Donna Anna; Donna Elvira Servilia Despina; Fiordiligi Ilia Sifare Sandrina Konstanze; Blonde Zaide
Nicolai	Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor	Frau Fluth
Offenbach	Les Contes d´Hoffmann	Antonia; Olympia; Giulietta
Puccini	La Rondine La Bohéme Turandot	Magda Musetta Liú
Poulenc	Dialogues des Carmelites	Blanche
Respighi	Maria Egiziaca
Rossini	Semiramide Scala di seta Il Turco in Italia L´assedio di Corinto Guglielmo Tell Le comte Ory	Semiramide Giulia Fiorilla Pamira Mathilde La Comtesse
Sartorio	Giulio Cesare	Cleopatra
Strauss, R.	Arabella Der Rosenkavalier Die Schweigsame Frau Ariadne auf Naxos Die Ägytische Helena Die Liebe der Danae	Zdenka Sophie Aminta Zerbinetta Aithra Danae
Thomas	Hamlet	Ophèlie
Verdi	Falstaff La Traviata Un ballo in maschera Rigoletto Luisa Miller Giovanna D´ Arco	Nannetta Violetta Oscar Gilda Luisa Giovanna
Wagner	Das Rheingold Götterdämmerung Siegfried Walküre	Woglinde Woglinde Waldvogel Ortlinde; Helmwige
Weber	Der Freischütz	Ännchen

External Links

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