Rachel Lindop (mezzo soprano) PDF Print E-mail

Rachel LindopRachel is constantly in demand both in the UK and abroad as a recitalist, concert soloist and opera performer. Her career to date has seen her working under the batons of conductors like Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Colin Davis, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Bob Chilcott and Marc Minkowski. She trained at the London College of Music, where she was awarded the Henry Baker Memorial prize, and then subsequently at the Royal College of Music with Margaret Kingsley.

Notable concert performances include Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s B Minor Mass for Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Bach’s St John Passion, Bach’s Magnificat for Canticum Novum, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vivaldi’s Gloria for the Presteigne Festival, Mozart’s Requiem at St John Smith Square, Debussy’s La Damoiselle Elue for New London Sinfonia, Rossini’s Stabat Mater at Tewkesbury Abbey. Work with Steven Devine and the Linden Baroque Soloists includes Handel’s La Lucrezia, Tra Le Fiamme, and Hercules. Work in Europe includes several tours and a recording with Marc Minkowski, Ann-Sophie Von Otter and Les Musiciens du Louvre. Rachel is a regular soloist at St-Martin-in-the-Fields where she has recently performed Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Handel’s Dixit Dominus.


Rachel’s tremendous versatility as a recital performer is reflected in her list of repertoire for recent duo performances; please click on this link to find out more.

Rachel’s other stage work has included Xerxes for New Chamber Opera, Gluck’s Orfeo for Finchcock Baroque Players, Mozart’s first opera Apollo et Hyacinthus for Classical Opera Company, various productions for D’Oyly Carte, Carl Rosa Opera Company and the Masquerade Theatre Company in Malta where she performed the role of Miss Anna in The King & I. Rachel is currently working with Experience Vocal Dance Company, an international company where artists train intensively in an experimental method called the Integrative Performance Practice. Work in progress includes pieces by Handel, Purcell and Bizet.

 

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