Yvonne Fontane
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"Yvonne Fontane sings and acts Amneris as the ice-cold schemer and desperate lover. Highly musical and with a dark glowing mezzo never veering in intonation during her jealous outbreaks, she is deeply moving in the judgement scene." (Gut Immling Festival 2011, Bayerischer Rundfunk)
Munich-born mezzo soprano Yvonne Fontane studied at the Munich Conservatoire, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London, where she received her diploma and won awards from the ESSO/NFMS Young Concert Artists’ and the San Francisco Opera Centre.
She went on to receive high international acclaim for her interpretation of Carmen at Opera Queensland Australia, the Royal Albert Hall/Gubbay production with the BBC Concert Orchestra, on the London City Opera/Columbia Artists’extensive USA tour, at Opera Holland Park London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Belfast Opera House and Stowe Opera UK.
Yvonne has sung other leading roles at Opera Holland Park London, Stowe Opera UK, English National Opera London, The Haydn Festival Eisenstadt Austria, Mid Wales OperaUK and The Banff Festival of the Arts Canada. These have included Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, The Witch & Mother in Hansel und Gretel, Azucena in Il Trovatore, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Dulcinée in Don Quixote, Volpino in Lo Speziale.
Furthermore, she has worked on live broadcasts with the RTE Irish Radio Concert and RTE Irish Radio Symphony Orchestras singing Carmen and The Witch in Hansel and Gretel as well as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana for Lakeland Opera UK.
Yvonne joined the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra again as Carmen at the Hampton Court Festival London and sang The Mother & The Witch on Diva Opera’s tour of Hansel and Gretel.
Other concert engagements have included Brahms and Mahler songs for BBC Radio 3, the Verdi's Messa da Requiem for Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Steve Reich’s Tehillim with the Dresdner Symphoniker, the Mozart Requiem with London Festival Orchestra, a series of opera galas for City of London Sinfonia, and also Patterson’s Millenium Mass and Mozart’s c-minor Mass with Bournemouth Sinfonietta.
2009 engagements include two CD recordings, one of Donald Tovey’s The Bride Of Dionysus with the BBC Ulster Orchestra and another for London Festival Opera, as well as an open air production of Verdi's Aida presented in several cities in Belgium, in which Yvonne gave her role debut as Amneris. The Bride Of Dionysus was awarded Recording of the month by Musicweb International. She also participated in an opera gala for Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe.
In August 2010, Yvonne Fontane appeared in a gala concert at the Chiemgau Festival and in September 2010 she gave operatic concerts in Hamburg and in Naples. In July 2011, she is singing Amneris in Aida for the Chiemgau Festival with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Future engagements include concerts throughout Britain with London Festival Opera.
September 2011
www.yvonnefontane.co.uk
"Yvonne Fontane sings and acts Amneris as the ice-cold schemer and desperate lover. Highly musical and with a dark glowing mezzo never veering in intonation during her jealous outbreaks, she is deeply moving in the judgement scene." (Gut Immling Festival 2011, Bayerischer Rundfunk)
Munich-born mezzo soprano Yvonne Fontane studied at the Munich Conservatoire, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London, where she received her diploma and won awards from the ESSO/NFMS Young Concert Artists’ and the San Francisco Opera Centre.
She went on to receive high international acclaim for her interpretation of Carmen at Opera Queensland Australia, the Royal Albert Hall/Gubbay production with the BBC Concert Orchestra, on the London City Opera/Columbia Artists’extensive USA tour, at Opera Holland Park London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Belfast Opera House and Stowe Opera UK.
Yvonne has sung other leading roles at Opera Holland Park London, Stowe Opera UK, English National Opera London, The Haydn Festival Eisenstadt Austria, Mid Wales OperaUK and The Banff Festival of the Arts Canada. These have included Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, The Witch & Mother in Hansel und Gretel, Azucena in Il Trovatore, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Dulcinée in Don Quixote, Volpino in Lo Speziale.
Furthermore, she has worked on live broadcasts with the RTE Irish Radio Concert and RTE Irish Radio Symphony Orchestras singing Carmen and The Witch in Hansel and Gretel as well as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana for Lakeland Opera UK.
Yvonne joined the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra again as Carmen at the Hampton Court Festival London and sang The Mother & The Witch on Diva Opera’s tour of Hansel and Gretel.
Other concert engagements have included Brahms and Mahler songs for BBC Radio 3, the Verdi's Messa da Requiem for Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Steve Reich’s Tehillim with the Dresdner Symphoniker, the Mozart Requiem with London Festival Orchestra, a series of opera galas for City of London Sinfonia, and also Patterson’s Millenium Mass and Mozart’s c-minor Mass with Bournemouth Sinfonietta.
2009 engagements include two CD recordings, one of Donald Tovey’s The Bride Of Dionysus with the BBC Ulster Orchestra and another for London Festival Opera, as well as an open air production of Verdi's Aida presented in several cities in Belgium, in which Yvonne gave her role debut as Amneris. The Bride Of Dionysus was awarded Recording of the month by Musicweb International. She also participated in an opera gala for Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe.
In August 2010, Yvonne Fontane appeared in a gala concert at the Chiemgau Festival and in September 2010 she gave operatic concerts in Hamburg and in Naples. In July 2011, she is singing Amneris in Aida for the Chiemgau Festival with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Future engagements include concerts throughout Britain with London Festival Opera.
September 2011
www.yvonnefontane.co.uk
