Allison Oakes
Cologne Opera - Elektra
Allison Oakes commands virtually inexhaustible vocal reserves for the title character. Vocally, Oakes blossoms with power and youth, soaring into magnificent arches.
Concerti (October 7, 2024)Season 25/26 and Highlights
DEUTSCHE OPER AM RHEIN
Wagner - Walküre - Brünnhilde
Feb 22, March 8/15/28
HAMBURG STATE OPERA
Wagner - Tristan and Isolde - Isolde
June 7/14/21
Biography
In recent years, Allison Oakes has established herself as one of the leading young dramatic sopranos, celebrating impressive successes with her role debut as Elektra at the Cologne Opera, her role debut as Sieglinde (Walküre) under Christian Thielemann at the Semperoper Dresden, as Chrysothemis (Elektra) at the Metropolitan Opera New York and the Saxon State Opera, as well as at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as Carlotta (Die Gezeichneten) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, at the Hamburg State Opera with Salome and Marietta (Die tote Stadt), at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Salome and Elisabeth/Venus (Tannhäuser), at the Leipzig Opera as Brünnhilde (Walküre), at the Budapest Wagner Festival as Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) and Siegfried-Brünnhilde. Her first Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung at the Staatstheater Braunschweig was a widely acclaimed role debut.
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In the 2025/26 season, the British soprano will take on the role of Brünnhilde in Die Walküre at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and return to the Hamburg State Opera as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde.
Key engagements in recent seasons include Chrysothemis (Elektra) and Wozzeck-Marie with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra under Sebastian Weigle; Isolde in a new production of Tristan (Omer Meir Wellber/Daniele Menghini) at the Teatro Massimo Palermo; Sieglinde in a new production of Walküre at the Greek National Opera Athens; concert performances of the first act of Walküre under Omer Meir Wellber at the Rome Opera 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 Walküre and Siegfried in the Berlin Philharmonie, as well as a Wagner concert at the Ravello Festival under the direction of Donald Runnicles, Senta in The Flying Dutchman and Marie/Marietta in Die Tote Stadt at the Hamburg State Opera, Walküre-Brünnhilde in Leipzig and at the Wagner Days Budapest, her UK debut with Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, as well as Isolde in new productions of Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi Trieste and at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, where she already impressed as Salome. In Frank Castorf's Bayreuth Ring production from 2013 to 2015, she could be heard under the baton of Kirill Petrenko as Freia in Das Rheingold, Gerhilde in Die Walküre and Gutrune in Götterdämmerung.
In addition to the roles already mentioned, her repertoire includes roles such as Miss Jessel ( The Turn of the Screw ), Rosalinde ( Die Fledermaus ), Elsa ( Lohengrin ), Tosca, Marschallin ( Rosenkavalie r) and Marie ( Wozzeck ).
Allison Oakes' accolades include the 1st Prize, Orchestra Prize, and Audience Prize at the 2010 International Lauritz-Melchior Wagner Singing Competition in Aalborg, Denmark, as well as the 1st Prize and an Audience Prize at the 2005 International Robert-Stolz Singing Competition in Hamburg during her studies.
Allison Oakes, born in Great Britain, initially completed studies in X-ray diagnostics before beginning her vocal studies in Germany with Professor Gudrun Fischer.
2025/26
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