Amanda Roocroft

Soprano

c/o Ingpen & Williams Ltd

020 8874 3222


Amanda Roocroft has secured an international reputation as one of Britain's most exciting singers, in opera, concert, and in recital. She graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music and studies with Barbara Robotham.

In concert she has appeared with leading orchestras throughout Europe and North America with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Mariss Jansons, Ivor Bolton, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (with whom she has also sung and recorded Fiordiligi on compact disc and video with Deutsche Grammophon Archiv), Daniele Gatti, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Bernard Haitink (with whom she has recorded Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony).

Highlights of recent seasons include her New York Philharmonic debut, regular appearances at the BBC Proms in London, and at the Edinburgh International Festival, a European tour with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, a tour of Japan (Countess/Le Nozze di Figaro and Beethoven 9) with the Bayerische Staatsoper and Zubin Mehta and the title role in Jenufa in Berlin.

Recital engagements have included London’s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna, New York’s Lincoln Center, La Monnaie in Brussels, as well as appearances in Munich, Paris and Lisbon.

Amanda Roocroft has enjoyed a close relationship with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival, and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and her roles in these houses have included
Fiordiligi/Cosi fan Tutte, Countess/Le Nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni, Desdemona/Otello, Amelia/Simon Boccanegra, Mimi/La Boheme, Eva/Die Meistersinger, the title roles in Katya and Jenufa, Genevre/Ariodante and Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare.

Future engagements include Countess/Le Nozze di Figaro and Mimi/La bohème in Munich, Tatiana/Eugene Onegin for Welsh National Opera, Jenufa in Barcelona, her first Madame Butterfly at Covent Garden and her first Elisabetta/Don Carlos for the Netherlands Opera.

April 2003

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