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| | Winter Louise | | mezzosoprano |  
| Born in Preston, Lancashire, Louise Winter's training was at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music as a pupil of Frederic Cox. |
| Her association with opera houses around the world began at Glyndebourne and has taken her from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to Toronto, Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona and English National Opera, and her roles have included Rosina ('Il Barbiere di Siviglia'), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte'), Pauline ('Pique Dame'), Diana ('La Calisto'), Marguerite ('La Damnation de Faust'), Sextus ('La Clemenza di Tito'), Beatrice ('Beatrice and Benedict'), and the titles roles in 'Xerxes' and 'Carmen'. She recently performed her first Octavian in 'Der Rosenkavalier' at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts. |
| Louise Winter's concert engagements include appearances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis and Leonard Slatkin, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with Paul Daniel, the Sydney Symphony under Edo de Waart, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Slatkin, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Sinaisky, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Oramo, the Halle Orchestra with Mark Elder and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Dutoit. Her repertoire in these concerts includes Mahler's 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' and 'Das Lied von der Erde'; Judith in 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle'; Jocasta in 'Oedipus Rex'; 'La Damnation de Faust'; Britten's 'Phaedra'; Rossini's 'Petite Messe Solennelle'; 'Pulcinella'; Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' and 'La mort de Cleopatre'. |
| Louise Winter has appeared in recital at the Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square, at the Theatre du Châtelet, Paris, the Bath and Belfast Festivals and at the Concertgebouw, performing Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak and Wolf. She can be heard on Hyperion's 'The Songs of Frank Bridge' and has frequently performed on BBC Radio. |
| Recent engagements have included a Richard Rodgers Centenary Concert under Ziegler, Tippett's 'A Child of our Time' with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Alsop, the 'Glagolitic Mass' with the Washington National Symphony Orchestra under Slatkin, Rossini's 'Stabat Mater' with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' with the BBC Philharmonic under Mackerras, Duruflé's 'Requiem' with the City of London Sinfonia under Cleobury at the Proms, Santuzza in 'Cavalleria Rusticana' under Alexander Lazarev in concert, Diana/Destino in 'La Calisto' at the Berlin Staatsoper and her first Brangäne at the Frankfurt Opera. |
| Future engagements include a BBC television recording of 'The Turn of the Screw', conducted by Richard Hickox, Elgar's 'The Apostles' with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo, a BBC lunchtime recital at the Wallace collection with her husband Gerald Finley, Mozart's 'Requiem' with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, and Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ, at Westminster Cathedral with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.@ |
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