Lynette Alcántara
Australian-born mezzo-soprano, Lynette Alcántara leads a busy life as soloist in opera, oratorio, recital and on disc. She has sung for many of the leading ensembles in Britain including The BBC Singers, The Monteverdi Choir, The Sixteen, Opera North, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, The Bach Choir and The King’s Consort. She appears regularly for BBC radio and TV, and frequently at the Royal Albert Hall and on the South Bank.
Concert diary
28 June 2009 French Sacred Music
Conductor: Sergio La Stella
San Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome
15 May 2009 Lynette Alcantara (mezzo) and Douglas Hollick (square piano) Haydn and the London Connection
Harlaxton Manor, Grantham
12 May 2009 Lynette Alcantara (mezzo) and Douglas Hollick (square piano) Haydn and the London Connection
Wolfson College (private function)
27 Mar 2009, 7pm
Martinu- Juliette (A Young sailor)
Conductor: Jiri Belohlavek
BBC Symphony Orchestra/BBC Singers
Barbican Hall, London
14 Mar 2009 King's College Foundation Concert, Mendelssohn's Lobgesang
King's College, Cambridge
Selected reviews
Selene Handel- Berenice, Cambridge Handel Opera Group
“Lynette Alcántara’s agreeably resinous mezzo...”
Rodney Milnes, The Times
Dinah Bernstein-Trouble in Tahiti
“Lynette Alcántara gave passionate and sensitive voice...”
Ian Brunskill, The Times
Schubertiade - Queen Elizabeth Hall, conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
“Alcántara also excelled in Ständchen, her pure, light and wonderfully natural style...”
Stephen Pettit, The Times