"...a mesmerising singer-actor who never lacks intensity or intelligence"
- The Times
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Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor
Àlex Ollé, Stage Director
Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor
Àlex Ollé, Stage Director
Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor
Àlex Ollé, Stage Director
Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor
Àlex Ollé, Stage Director
Foreign Priness Rusalka production of Àlex Ollé/Eivind Gullberg Jensen with the Bergen National Opera and with Bastian Kraft /Oksana Lyniv at the Staatsoper Stuttgart; Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw Ivan Fischer/Marco Gandini MÜPA, Budapest and Vicenza Opera Festival; Kundry Parsifal with Pablo Heras-Casado Orquesta de Extremadura; Venus Tannhauser under Patrick Hahn, retun to Gran Teatre Liceu in the title role in Casablanca's world premier L'Enigma de Lea under Gonzolèz-Granados.
Future appearances with Philharmonia Baroque San Francisco, returns to Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, La Monnaie de Munt, and Zurich Opera with Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw, Salome, Dido's Ghost, Amerika
Marquise de Merteuil in Francesconi's Quartett under Alex Ollé/Valentina Carrasco, revivals with Alex Ollé/Maxime Pascal at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan and at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona;
Lea L'Enigma de Lea directed by Pons / under Portaceli at the Gran Teatre del Liceu; Judith Bluebeards's Castle Enescu Festival, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Lisbon; Schoenberg Erwartung under Alejo Pérez Opera Vlaanderen Antwerpen; Salome Jacobs/Brabbins at the ENO, London; Wallen Dido's Ghost Wake- Walker / Dunedin Consort Barbican Centre, London & Edinburgh International Festival; The Red Queen in Barry's Alice's Adventures Underrgound MacDonald/Adès ROH, Covent Garden; Miss Jessel Turn Of The Screw Holten/Eschenbach at the Teatro alla Scala; Duchess of Argyll in Adès' Powder Her Face Trelinsky/Perez at La Monnaie and Warsaw National Opera; Duchess of Argyll in Adès' Powder Her Face Scheib, Stockhammer New York City Opera, Woman Erwartung Netia Jones/Bronniman Bergen International Festival
Recital with Alfredo Abbati, piano at La Monnaie, Brussels; Concert M. Padmore, R. Wigglesworth Berlin Philharmonic Concert Serie, Berio Folk Songs Bilkent Symphony, Ankara; Asian Recital Tour with the Britten Sinfonia with Britten Phaedra / Haendel / Purcell; The Red Queen in Barry's Alice's Adventures Under Ground Adès LA Phil, Walt Disney Concert Hall, L.A; Bolcom Cabaret Songs Wayne Marshall Orquesta Sinfonica Castilla y Leon
Schönberg - Erwartung Op. 17
Schönberg - Erwartung Op. 17
(...)here rendered with intensity by the outstanding mezzo soprano Allison Cook, the high spiriling vocal writing projected thrillingly, her expertise in contemporary opera evident through her balance of complex vocal lines with effective, alluring stage action.
Allison Cook also gives a tour de force performance. It’s not so much that she portrays the Duchess, rather she reincarnates her. First as a playful sex-goddess, then as a fallen angel. With a final number as gripping as the best bel canto aria.
When Allison Cook sings, Wagnerian and Strauss roles come to mind for the audience especially since the singer has such warmth and depth.
Allison Cook's Miss Jessel, a dramatic soprano with a fascinating timbre and precise singing line, probably the character in which vocal quality and stage presence blended best.
Allison Cook, Kundry, sang with the intensity and expressive varierty demanded by the complexity of the role. With resounding lower register and extremely secure top, when woken in the second act, the fiendishly difficult phrases, as if she were still dreaming, were sublimely executed. After being rejected by Parsifal, she sang the extended 'Grausamer!' passage with great dramatic effect and vocal intensity while trying to seduce Parsifal this time by means of compassion.
For her part, Allison Cook completed this great cast with an extremely detailed interpretation in terms of phrasing, making credible with the changes of register and colour, the dual nature of Kundry as both a seductrice and as a repentant. The timbre is beautiful and the voice runs equally well in all registers.
