Allison Oakes

Worldwide representation

In the past seasons Allison Oakes established a reputation as one of the new leading dramatic sopranos with successes including Chrysothemis (Elektra) at the Metropolitan Opera New York as well as at Semperoper Dresden and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carlotta (Die Gezeichneten) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Salome and Marietta (Die tote Stadt) at Staatsoper Hamburg, Salome and Elisabeth/Venus (Tannhäuser) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) and Brünnhilde (Siegfried) at the Wagner Festival in Budapest. Her first Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung at the Staatstheater Braunschweig at the end of last season was a widely acclaimed role debut.

In the 2024/25 season, the British soprano will make her role debut as Elektra at the Cologne Opera under the direction of Roland Schwab. Following her success as Chyrsothemis (Elektra) with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, she has been invited to return as Marie for concert performances of Wozzeck under Sebastian Weigle. The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents the artist in the title role of Strauss' Salome under the baton of Alexander Soddy.

Important engagements in recent seasons: Isolde in a new production of Tristan (Omer Meir Wellber/Daniele Menghini) at the Teatro Massimo Palermo; Sieglinde in a new production of Walküre at the Greek National Opera Athens; concert performances of the first act of Walküre under Omer Meir Wellber at the Opera di Roma and under Jaap van Zweden in Seoul; Marie/Marietta in Die tote Stadt at English National Opera, her role debuts as Brünnhilde in concert performances of Die Walküre and Siegfried at the Berliner Philharmonie and a Wagner-Concert at the Ravello Festival conducted by Donald Runnicles, Senta (Der fliegende Holländer) at Staatsoper Hamburg, Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) at Oper Leipzig, her debut in the UK with Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Isolde in a new production of Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. At Nationaltheater Mannheim she impressed audiences as Salome and Isolde. She sang Freia (Das Rheingold), Gerhilde (Die Walküre) and Gutrune (Götterdämmerung) in Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival conducted by Kirill Petrenko and directed by Frank Castorf from 2013 to 2015. 

Her repertoire furthermore includes Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Elsa (Lohengrin), Tosca, Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) and Marie (Wozzeck). 

Ms. Oakes has participated in international vocal competitions where she has won numerous awards including the first prize, the audience prize and the orchestral prize at the International Lauritz-Melchior Wagner Competition 2010 in Denmark, and the first prize and audience prize at the International Robert-Stolz Singing Competition 2005 in Hamburg.

Born in the UK, Allison Oakes first qualified as a Diagnostic Radiographer before studying music in Germany. Her vocal studies were with Professor Gudrun Fischer and she completed her studies with a first class degree and post-graduate certificate with distinction.

2024/25

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