Mezzo-soprano
Cambridge University Opera Society presents Bizet's masterpiece Carmen. Chloë Allison sings the fiery heroin, alongside Max Lawrie (Don José), Louis Wilson (Escamillo) and Anna-Luise Wagner (Michaela). The production, set in 1980s post-Franco Spain, is imaginatively crafted by Eleanor Burke.
Superb mezzo-soprano Chloe Allison presents songs for the unusual but richly expressive combination of mezzo and viola alongside Wagner's Wesendocnk Lieder, one of his most famous non-operatic works. Written at the same time as Tristan and Isolde, they express the same longing in love, and anguished desperation in the face of death.
Chloë Allison joins the Cambridge Mahler Orchestra to perform 'Der Abschied', the final movement of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.
Chloë Allison is joined by Sarah MacDonald, the director of music at Selwyn College Cambridge, in a program of late Romantic Mélodie and Lieder.
Cambridge Univerisity Symphony Orchestra present a program of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. As winner of their concerto competition, Chloë Allison joins them to perform Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder.
Chloë Allison and Adam McDonagh perform songs by Hamilton Harty and Ned Rorem in a masterclass with Roderick Williams at the 1901 Arts Club.
Première of Green Opera's Liederabend Fillu, telling the story of Eugenie Schumann, the youngest daughter of Clara and Robert, and her lover, the Austrian soprano Marie Fillunger. This event is part of the Minerva Festival which champions the work of female and non-binary creatives.
Cambridge University Opera Society presents Rossini's classic tale of transformation and forgiveness with Chloë Allison in the title role.
Green Opera presents 'Fillu', streamed online as part of the SouthWestFest
Green Opera's 'Fillu' has been beautifully filmed and will be streamed online as part of the JAM on the Marsh Virtual Festival. This newly-devised Lieder-opera tells the story of Eugenie Schumann, daughter of Clara and Robert, and her life-long partner, the Austrian soprano, Marie Fillunger. It explores their passion and their struggle to be together in the face of familial pressures.
Chloë Allison tells the story of late 12th-century singers at Notre Dame de Paris as part of the Royal School of Church Music Lunch-time Lecture Series. She explores how unnamed but extremely skilled singers worked together orally to develop completely new and hugely ambitious ways of creating music. She asks how we can access this fluid, oral music-making through its 'fossilisation' in surviving manuscripts and introduces her audience to the kinds of 'detective' historical methods needed to explore this music, which captivated her as an undergraduate and inspired her doctoral research.
The premier of Marginalia's newly-devised production, fusing Shakespeare's famous words with Bellini's sumptuous melodies. Star-crossed lovers as you've never seen them before. Perfect for opera newcomers as well as life-long fans!
