Louise Walsh, Soprano
With an innate musicality and adaptability, Soprano Louise Walsh has built a strong reputation as one of the most accomplished artists working in Europe.
Born and educated in Ireland. She gained a B.A. (Hons) in Chemistry at Trinity College, Dublin while also studying singing at the DIT College of Music. She subsequently went on to study professional performance at the RNCM, Manchester and the National Opera Studio, London.
While at the RNCM Louise won the Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Scholarship, the Ricordi Prize for opera and the Gold Medal for best overall vocalist in her year.
She was overall 2nd prizewinner at the International Belvedere Singing Competition, Vienna. Also that year winning 1st place in the International Media Prize, the Hessischer Rundfunk Prize and the Iwate Prize of Japan.
Louise has sung with the StaatsOper Stuttgart both as a contract soloist and subsequently as a regular guest artist.
Roles there include: Musetta in La Boheme; Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito; Xenia in Boris Godounov; The Sandman and Dewfairy in Hansel and Gretel; Serpina in Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona; Clarice in Hayden’s Il Mondo della Luna and Pauline in La Vie Parisienne.
Other operatic roles include; Pernille in Carl Nielsen’s Maskarade (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Adina in L’elisir d’amore (ENO); Erstes Blumenmadchen in Parsifal (La Monnaie, Brussels); Rozina in Sarlatan by Pavel Haas (Wexford Festival); Amor in Orfeo ed Euridice (Scottish Opera); Adele in Die Fledermaus, The Forest Bird in Wagner’s Siegfried, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Ireland); Diana Orpheus in the Underworld (Opera Holland Park); Title role in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen (Opera Theatre Company/English Touring Opera); Ilia in Idomeneo (Opera Northern Ireland); Athene in Param Virs' Ion (Music Theatre Wales and Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg); Asteria in Handel’s Tamerlano and Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's The Rake’s Progress (Opera Theatre Company).
Soprano solo concert performances include; A Child of our Time conducted by Nicholas Cleobury; Carmina Burana with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Messiah with the Orchestra of St. John’s, Smith Square, London; Faure Requiem and Brahms’ German Requiem with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Mozart Requiem and Mahler Symphony No 2, Waterfront Hall, Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra; Bach B Minor Mass for U.N.E.S.C.O in Paris and Beethoven Fantasia at the International Peace Conference, Hiroshima, Japan.
She was guest soloist in the Raymond Gubbay Johann Strauss Gala Concerts conducted by Christopher Warren Green performed at The Royal Festival Hall and Classical Spectacular at the Royal Albert Hall.
Louise has also sung the role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera in London’s West End.
She featured and sang in the London Dorchester Hotel Group’s promotional video of their world class international hotels and was subsequently invited to sing on The Dorchester Hotel Collection CD.
Most recently she sang the role of Woglinde Das Rheingold in Opera Ireland’s Autumn season 2009.
To find out more about Louise Walsh, visit her website at www.louisewalsh.com.
