Giselle Allen
Soprano
Northern Irish soprano Giselle Allen has garnered a reputation for her dramatic role portrayals, establishing a versatile career with leading international opera houses and orchestras.
Giselle Allen | Was die Steine glänzen | Marie | Wozzeck
Giselle Allen | Was bluten muss | Elektra | INO
Giselle Allen | Ob ich nicht höre | Elektra | INO
Her career highlights to date include the title role Elektra (Irish National Opera); Marie Wozzeck (Canadian Opera Company); 3rd Norn Götterdämmerung (Opernhaus Zurich); Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw (Opernhaus Zürich; La Monnaie; Opéra National de Lyon; Glyndebourne); Lisa Pikovaya Dama(English National Opera); Praskov’ya Osipovna The Nose (La Monnaie); Senta Der Fliegende Höllander (Irish National Opera; Northern Ireland Opera); Gutrune, Gerhilde and Freia Der Ring des Nibelungen (Opera North); title role Salome (Opera North & Northern Ireland Opera); Ellen Orford Peter Grimes (Komische Oper Berlin; Bergen International Festival; Opera North; Aldeburgh); Magda Sorel The Consul (Welsh National Opera); The Dutchess Powder Her Face (Northern Ireland Opera); Tosca (Opera Australia & Opera North); Mila Osud and Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana (Opera North); Wellgunde Das Rheingold and Gutrune Götterdämmerung (Covent Garden Festival); Parasya in Mussorgsky’s Sorochyntsi Fair (Singapore) under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Marin Alsop, Gianandrea Noseda, Richard Farnes, Edward Gardner, Jac van Steen and Ben Glassberg.
On the concert platform, Giselle has appeared in many of the major concert halls in the UK and Ireland including Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass (the Hallé Orchestra); Beethoven 9th Symphony (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & the Philharmonia Orchestra); Dvořák’s Stabat Mater (Ulster Orchestra); Dvořák’s Te Deum (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra); Minnie La fanciulla del West (National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland); Eleonora in Salieri’s Prima la Musica poi le Parole (Scottish Chamber Orchestra); Jenny Smith The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Edinburgh International Festival); and Salome in Massenet’s Herodiade (Anna Livia International Opera Festival).
Forthcoming engagements see her debut in the roles of Foreign Princess Rusalka (Irish National Opera); and Sieglinde Die Walküre (Grange Park Opera); and returns to The Royal Opera and Ballet and Welsh National Opera.