Louise Alder - soprano. Studied at the Royal College of Music. She is a member of the Frankfurt Opera Ensemble, where her roles this season include Atalanta in a new production of Xerxes and her first Gilda/Rigoletto. She is also singing Zerlina/Don Giovanni for Glyndebourne on Tour and making her debut with the Welsh National Opera as Sophie in a new production of Der Rosenkavalier.
Recent successes have included Lucia/The Rape of Lucretia at the Glyndebourne Festival; Ilia/Idomeneo for Garsington Opera; Euridice in Luigi Rossi’s Orpheus for the Royal Opera; Rapunzel/Into the Woods for the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare, Sophie/Der Rosenkavalier, the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen and Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel for the Frankfurt Opera.
Future seasons include further roles in Frankfurt, returns to Garsington Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival and her debut for the Teatro Real in Madrid.