Allison Oakes has established herself in recent years as one of the leading dramatic sopranos. She made her role debuts as Elektra at Oper Köln and as Sieglinde (Walküre) under Christian Thielemann at the Semperoper Dresden She has enjoyed impressive success as Chrysothemis (Elektra) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Semperoper Dresden, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin; as Carlotta (Die Gezeichneten) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam; at the Hamburg State Opera as Salome and Marietta (Die tote Stadt); at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Salome and Elisabeth/Venus (Tannhäuser); at the Leipzig Opera as Brünnhilde (Die Walküre); and at the Budapest Wagner Festival as Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) and Brünnhilde in Siegfried . Her first Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung at the Braunschweig State Theatre was a widely acclaimed role debut.

In the 2026/27 season, the British soprano returns to the Hamburg State Opera as Sieglinde ( Die Walküre ) and will sing Brünnhilde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

Highlights of recent seasons include her Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, her return to the Hamburg State Opera
as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Chrysothemis (Elektra) and Marie in Wozzeck with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra under Sebastian Weigle, Isolde in a new production of Tristan und Isolde (Omer Meir Wellber/Daniele Menghini) at the Teatro Massimo Palermo, Sieglinde in a new production of Die Walküre at the Greek National Opera in Athens, concert performances of the Act I of Die Walküre under Omer Meir Wellber at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and under Jaap van Zweden in Seoul, Marietta in Die tote Stadt at the English National Opera, her role debuts as Brünnhilde in concert performances of Die Walküre and Siegfried at the Berlin Philharmonie, and a Wagner concert at the Ravello Festival conducted by Donald Runnicles. Her roles include Senta in The Flying Dutchman and Marie/Marietta in Die tote Stadt at the Hamburg State Opera, Brünnhilde in Die Walküre in Leipzig and at the Budapest Wagner Days, her UK debut with Strauss's Four Last Songs with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and Isolde in new productions of Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi Trieste and at the National Theatre Mannheim, where she had already impressed as Salome. From 2013 to 2015, she sang Freia in Das Rheingold , Gerhilde in Die Walküre, and Gutrune in Götterdämmerung in Frank Castorf's Bayreuth Ring Cycle under the baton of Kirill Petrenko.

Allison Oakes won, among other prizes, 1st prize, the orchestra prize and the audience prize at the International Lauritz-Melchior Wagner Singing Competition 2010 in Aalborg, Denmark, and during her studies, first prize and the audience prize at the International Robert Stolz Singing Competition 2005 in Hamburg.

Allison Oakes, born in Great Britain, initially completed a degree in radiology before beginning her vocal studies in Germany with Professor Gudrun Fischer.
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