Some early
engagements were Don Giovanni with Opera Factory (filmed for
Channel 4), and Dialogues des Carmelites for the Opèra
de Lyon (recorded by Virgin Classics), since when her many & varied
roles have included Mother Goose The Rake’s Progress
at the Aldeburgh Festival; Giovanna Ernani, Ismene The
Siege of Corinth, Death Le Rossignol and Smaragdi Francesca
da Rimini for Chelsea Opera Group; Florence Pike Albert Herring,
Third Lady The Magic Flute and Mistress Quickly Falstaff
for English Touring Opera; Marcellina The Marriage of Figaro & Third Lady for European Chamber Opera; Flora La Traviata for Mid-Wales Opera & the Irish Operatic Repertory Company, Jocasta Oedipus Rex and Filipyevna Eugene Onegin for Oxford
University Opera; The Sorceress Dido and Aeneas for Palace
Opera. She made her debut with English National Opera in Joanathan Harvey’s Inquest of Love and subsequently took part in the opera’s
revival at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels.
Increasingly
in demand for concert engagements at home and abroad, Louise has broadcast
Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, appeared on Friday Night is Music Night and toured with the
Basque Symphony Orchestra of Spain. She has recorded extracts from Handel’s Messiah for Classic FM and has performed the same work in Britain
and the Far East. She has sung the B Minor Mass in Salisbury
Cathedral, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Stephen Cleobury
at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge and A Child of Our Time
at Warwick University. Her extensive repoertoire further includes the
Missa Solemnis, The Dream of Gerontius, Janácek’s Glagolithic Mass, Das Lied von der Erde, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater and Verdi’s Requiem. She has sung
Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ in Hungary with Howard Williams
and the Pécs Hungarian Symphony Orchestra and has sung the role
of Carmen in concert performance. She recently appeared at the Barbican
& Birmingham Symphony Halls in programmes devoted to the music of
Offenbach.
Louise
was a member of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, singing The Countess The Count of Luxembourg, The Fairy Queen and Leila Iolanthe,
Buttercup & Hebe HMS Pinafore, Ruth & Edith The
Pirates of Penzance at the Savoy Theatre, and on tour in Britain
and the USA. Louise regularly sings for Opera della Luna as Ruth/Edith/a
Policeman The Parson’s Pirates; Amanda The Ghosts
of Ruddigore; Alice Lucia di Lammermoor, Peep Bo/Katisha
The Mikado, Buttercup HMS Pinafore & Orestes La Belle
Helene on tour, at the Covent Garden Festival and recently for
a season at London’s Bridewell Theatre and the International Gilbert
& Sullivan Fesitval at Buxton Opera House where she also sang Tessa The Gondoliers for the G & S Opera Company. She has recently
sung Flora in Co-Opera’s production of La Traviata in
Dublin.
