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
Allison Oakes has established herself in recent years as one of the leading youthful-dramatic sopranos and has celebrated impressive successes with her role debut as Elektra at the Cologne Opera, her role debut as Sieglinde (Die 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 (Die Walküre), at the Budapest Wagner Festival as Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) and as Siegfried-Brünnhilde. Her first Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung at the Staatstheater Braunschweig was a widely noted role debut.
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In the 2025/26 season, the British soprano will sing Brünnhilde in Die Walküre at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and will return to the Hamburg State Opera as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde.
Important engagements of 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 Die Walküre at the Greek National Opera Athens; concert performances of Act I of Die Walküre under Omer Meir Wellber at the Rome Opera and under Jaap van Zweden in Seoul; Marietta in Die tote Stadt at English National Opera; her role debuts as Brünnhilde in concert performances of Die Walküre and Siegfried at the Berlin Philharmonie; a Wagner concert at the Ravello Festival under Donald Runnicles; Senta in Der fliegende Holländer and Marie/Marietta in Die tote Stadt at the Hamburg State Opera; Die Walküre-Brünnhilde 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 Nationaltheater Mannheim, where she had already impressed as Salome. In the Bayreuth Ring production by Frank Castorf, she appeared from 2013 to 2015 under Kirill Petrenko as Freia in Das Rheingold, Gerhilde in Die Walküre, and Gutrune in Götterdämmerung.
Her repertoire includes, in addition to the roles already mentioned, parts such as Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Elsa (Lohengrin), Tosca, the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), and Marie (Wozzeck).
Allison Oakes won, among other distinctions, the First Prize, the Orchestra Prize, and the Audience Prize at the 2010 International Lauritz Melchior Wagner Singing Competition in Aalborg, Denmark, and during her studies the First Prize and an Audience Prize at the 2005 International Robert Stolz Singing Competition in Hamburg.
Born in the United Kingdom, Allison Oakes first completed a degree in radiological diagnostics before beginning her vocal studies in Germany with Professor Gudrun Fischer.2025/26
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