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
12 June 2010, 12pm Mozart Requiem Come & Sing
Glasgow City Halls, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
conductor Gordon Stuart
11 May 2010, 9pm Lieder Abend
Wolfson College, Cambridge
Pianist: Fusae Takahashi
8 May 2010, 6:30 pm Lieder recital with Fusae Takahashi (piano) for the New Europe Society,
including songs by Haydn, Robert and Clara Schumann
Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College Cambridge
Tickets: www.neweurope.org.uk
17 April 2010, 8.00pm Vivaldi Gloria
St Luke’s Church, Langley, Watford
Voix de Vivre conducted by Neil Mackenzie
6 March 2010, 7.30pm Handel Messiah
St Mark’s Church, Newnham, Cambridge
Nov 27- Dec 12 2009 Covering the 'Alto' role
in Deborah Warner's staging of Handel's Messiah
for English National Opera
Selected reviews
Juliette/BBC Symphony Orchestra
"...and four members of the BBC Singers for their prowess... Lynette Alcántara..."
Andrew Porter, Opera
Selene Handel- Berenice, Cambridge Handel Opera Group
“Lynette Alcántara’s agreeably resinous mezzo...”
Rodney Milnes, 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
