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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

 

Lyn Alcántara, Jonathan Phillips (c) 2007

Lyn Alcántara
© Jonathan Phillips 2008

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

 

Recent performances...

 

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

 

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