Louise Crane

Vocal Tutor
     

AGSM
PG Dip
RNCM

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Tel: c/o 0121 331 5901

National Opera Studio
Opera della Luna

Louise Crane has worked as a principal artist with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, ENO, the Monnaie (Brussels), Opéra de Lyon, the Aldeburgh Festival, Chelsea Opera Group, Opera Factory and Mid-Wales Opera. She has broadcast Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the BBC Scottish Symphony, and being well-known for singing Handel’s Messiah - recorded for Classic FM - she was engaged by the Basque Symphony of Spain and the Singapore Symphony. She has previously performed at King’s College Cambridge with Stephen Cleobury and has appeared on Friday Night is Music Night. She has given concerts devoted to the music of Offenbach at the Barbican and Birmingham Symphony Hall. Louise joined D’Oyly Carte as a principal contralto, singing the Countess (The Count of Luxembourg), the Fairy Queen (Iolanthe), Cousin Hebe (HMS Pinafore), Edith and Ruth (The Pirates of Penzance) at London’s Savoy Theatre and on tour in Britain and the USA. Louise has a long and regular association with Opera della Luna and has sung over ten roles with them on tour throughout the UK and at the Covent Garden Festival and London’s Bridewell Theatre. In summer 2006 she sang Flora (La Traviata) for Co-Opera in Waterford and Dublin and Tessa (The Gondoliers) for the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival at Buxton Opera House. She recently travelled to Barbados for further performances of La Traviata and played Praskovia (The Merry Widow) for Opera Holland Park.

Current Projects
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – tour of music from Comic Operas
  • ‘Mother Goose’ in Stravinsy’s Rake’s Progress with Opera East and the Iford Festival
  • National Tour of HMS Pinafore with Opera della Luna
  • Verdi Requiem at The Anvil, Basingstoke
  • Elgar’s Light of Life at King’s College Cambridge and a BBC Radio3 broadcast of the same work, Easter 2007
  • Performances of The Dream of Geronitus
Awards & Prizes