Giselle Allen
Irish soprano Giselle Allen’s recent highlights include her debut in the title role Elektra which she recently sang at Kilkenny Festival in a new production by Irish National Opera. She made her way to La Monnaie, Brussels, for the role of Miss Jessel in a new production of The Turn of the Screw by the highly regarded Andrea Breth streamed live to European audiences, and she returns to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden for the role of Ellen Orford (c) Peter Grimes. Last season, she added the role of Anna Maurrant Street Scene to her repertoire at her artistic home, Opera North, where she also appeared in the title role Tosca in a new production. At Welsh National Opera she appeared in the role of Magda Sorel The Consul for which she received outstanding reviews.
“Giselle Allen’s Magda deepened greatly in emotional depth and intensity during the course of the performance. She was at her most powerful in her extended Act III solo beginning ‘Papers! Papers! Papers!’ which built to a terrifyingly intense frenzy in the midst of which there was a clarity of insight that made her an eloquent spokesman for all (in whatever time, whatever country) going through a similar experience.” Seen and Heard International, Glyn Pursglove, 14 June 2019
For ELEKTRA: “Soprano Giselle Allen projects captivating humanity and emotional intensity: Irish National Opera, presenting a new staging of this work, hit the jackpot with soprano Giselle Allen. She summons immense vocal strength and stamina to contend with Strauss’s vast instrumental forces and project a captivating humanity and emotional intensity in a role that never departs the stage.” Mark Dungan, The Irish Times, 9 August 2021.
“Giselle Allen displayed considerable acting skills as Tosca… Her fiery, slinky Tosca, sometimes on the edge of hysteria, is truly memorable. “Vissi d’arte” was sung very much from the heart, beginning when she was horizontal in Scarpia’s den of a bedroom. When Scarpia forces her to watch her lover being tortured on the screen of his laptop, she was convincingly horrified and alarmed.”
Bachtrack, Richard Wilcocks, 17 September, 2018
| BERG | WOZZECK (Marie) |
|---|---|
| BRITTEN | PETER GRIMES Ellen Orford A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Helena TURN OF THE SCREW Miss Jessel |
| Dvorak | RUSALKA Rusalka |
| JANACEK | THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN Fox JENUFA Jenufa KAT’A KABANOVA Kat’a OSUD Míla |
| FIBICH | SARKA Svatava |
| MASCAGNI | CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Santuzza |
| MASSENET | HERODIADE Salome |
| MOZART | DON GIOVANNI Donna Elvira COSI FAN TUTTE Fiordiligi LA CLEMENZA DI TITO Vitellia LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Countess |
| MUSSORGSKY | SOROCHINSKY FAIR Parassia |
| OFFENBACH | LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN Giulietta |
| PUCCINI | SUOR ANGELICA Suor Angelica LA BOHEME Mimi/Musetta TOSCA Tosca |
| SMETANA | THE BARTERED BRIDE Marenka |
| R. STRAUSS | SALOME Salome |
| TCHAIKOVSKY | EUGENE ONEGIN Tatyana PIQUE DAME Lisa |
| TIPPETT | A MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE Jennifer |
| VERDI | OTELLO Desdemona (excerpts) |
| WALTON | TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Cressida |
| WAGNER | DAS RHEINGOLD Freia/Wellgunde DIE WALKÜRE Gerhilde GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG Gutrune DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER Senta |
| WEILL | RISE & FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY Jenny |
| WEINBERG | THE PASSENGER Martha |
| BRITTEN | OUR HUNTING FATHERS |
| DVORAK | TE DEUM STABAT MATER |
| JANACEK | GLAGOLITIC MASS
SYMPHONY 4 |
| MENDELSSOHN | ELIJAH |
| MOZART | REQUIEM |
| POULENC | GLORIA |
| SIBELIUS
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LUONNOTAR
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| STRAUSS | FOUR LAST SONGS |
| WAGNER | LIEBESTOD
WESENDONCK LIEDER |
| RACHMANINOFF | THE BELLS |
| SZYMANOWSKI | STABAT MATER |
| TIPPETT | CHILD OF OUR TIME |
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