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Lisa Milne - Soprano Lisa Milne studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She has won numerous awards and prizes, most notably the Maggie Teyte Prize, the John Christie Award and the Royal Philharmonic Society Award, as well as Honorary Doctorates of Music from the University of Aberdeen and The Robert Gordon University. She was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2005. She made her professional début on the opera stage with Scottish Opera where her roles with the company have included Semele, Adèle (‘Die Fledermaus’), Adina (‘L’Elisir d’Amore’), and four great Mozart roles, Zerlina, Susanna, Ilia and Despina. She has also appeared with the English National Opera (Alcina, Ännchen and Anne Trulove), Welsh National Opera (Servilia), Stuttgart Opera (Gretel), Royal Danish Opera (Ilia), Dallas Opera (Marzelline) and at the Göttingen Handel Festival as Atalanta in 'Serse'. At the Glyndebourne Festival she has sung the title role in Handel’s ‘Rodelinda’, Marzelline in ‘Fidelio’, Micaëla in ‘Carmen’ and Pamina in ‘Die Zauberflöte’. In the 2005/2006 season she sang Marzelline in performances in Japan of the Salzburg Festival production of ‘Fidelio’, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Pamina, under the baton of James Levine. She repeated her acclaimed portrayal of the same role at the Glyndebourne Festival before returning to the Metropolitan Opera in the autumn as Susanna. This season she will again sing Marzelline at Glyndebourne as well as her first Countess in a new production of ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ at ENO. She made her London recital début at the Maggie Teyte Prizewinner's Concert at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden , and has given recitals at the Aix-en-Provence and City of London Festivals , and the Wigmore Hall. In 1998 she made her Edinburgh Festival debut in a joint recital with Sir Thomas Allen, and subsequent appearances include ‘Saul’, ‘Messiah’ and ‘Idomeneo’ with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and MacMillan’s ‘Parthenogenesis’ with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. At the 2002 festival, she gave her hugely successful solo recital début. Recent concert engagements include the world premiere of Simon Holt’s ‘Sunrise Yellow Noise’ with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ with the London Symphony Orchestra, both conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Thea Musgrave's 'Songs for a Winter's Evening' and Handel’s ‘Samson’ at the BBC Proms, and appearances at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh and Royal Albert Hall with José Carreras. Last year, she made her New York concert debut singing the Mozart Requiem as part of the Lincoln Center ’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Lisa Milne made her recording début on the Hyperion label singing Handel and Vivaldi cantatas with the King's Consort. Hyperion also issued her first solo album, dedicated to Hebridean Folk Songs. She has since recorded for Decca (Vaughan Williams 'Serenade to Music' with Norrington), BMG ('Serse' with McGegan), Hyperion ( Ireland songs), Collins Classics (Quilter songs), EMI (Ilia with Mackerras), DG (Servilia with Mackerras) and, most recently, filmed the role of The Governess for the BBC film of ‘The Turn of the Screw’. Contact
Details: With the Samling Foundation: Attended the first year of Masterclasses/Workshops. "It was wonderful having such a concentrated period of time, with the individual and group study with such artists as Malcolm Martineau, Thomas Allen and Patricia MacMahon".
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