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Rebecca Bottone

Introduction

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Alison Pearce. She has sung Blonde in ‘Die Entfürung aus dem Serail’ for the Aix-en-Provence Festival conducted by Minkowski, Casilda in 'The Gondoliers' for English National Opera, ‘Hansel and Gretel’ for Scottish Touring Opera, Paisiello’s ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ for Bampton Classical Opera and Nanetta in 'Falstaff' for English Touring Opera. She was an Associate artist of the Classical Opera Company with she sang Despina in 'Cosi Fan Tutte', Melia in 'Apollo and Hyacinthus' and Elisa in 'Il Re Pastore'. In Paris, she has sung Charmeuse in 'Thais' under Eschenbach at the Chatelet and Ades 'Five Eliot Landscapes' at Radio France with the composer. At the Edinburgh Festival she has sung ‘Adelaide di Borgogna’ with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Giuliano Carella, which was recorded for Opera Rara, Beethoven’s C Minor Mass and ‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’ with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by David Robertson and ‘Dialogues des Carmelites’ with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Stéphane Denève. Other concert engagements include Handel arias with King's Consort at London's Wigmore Hall and the St John Passion with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan. Recent opera engagements include Cricket and Parrott in the world premiere of Jonathan Dove's 'Pinocchio' for Opera North, Blonde for Scottish Opera, Marie in Rufus Wainwright's 'Prima Donna' for the Manchester Festival. Tytania in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for Garsington Opera and for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, she sang the First Innocent in the world premiere of Birtwistle's 'Minotaur' and the Maid in Ades 'Powder Her Face' at the Lindbury Studio.

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Press Reviews

BRITTEN: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - Garsington Opera

Rebecca Bottone sparkled through Tytania’s coloratura
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, 25th June 2010

Rebecca Bottone is a divine Tytania, mischievous and spritzer-voiced
Mark Valencia, www.whatsonstage.com, 22nd June 2010

Rebecca Bottone’s sexy, taunting Tytania
Richard Morrison, The Times, 22nd June 2010

...the remarkable Rebecca Bottone
Michael Church, The Independent, 21st June 2010

Rebecca Bottone’s Tytania...command[s] the stage as the unearthly fairy-queen...
George Hall, The Stage, 18th June 2010

ADES: 'Powder Her Face' - Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio

there are superbly lubricious performances from...Rebecca Bottone as the exploitative...women in the Duchess's life.
Tim Ashley, The Guardian, 28th April 2010

Rebecca Bottone was rivetingly comic in a medley of soubrette roles...
Michael Church, The Independent, 28th April 2010

And the cast is great: Rebecca Bottone, swooping to improbable vocal heights as the all-knowing Maid...
Richard Morrison, The Times, 28th April 2010

the excellence of...Rebecca Bottone’s sexy sylph of a soprano.
Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 27th April 2010

Rebecca Bottone...quite outstanding in their multiple roles.
Colin Anderson, Opera Critic, 26th April 2010

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: 'Prima Donna' - Sadlers Wells

Rebecca Bottone as a sympathetic maid is the best of the supporting cast.
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, 13th April 2010

...sings the pert coloratura maid Marie (Rebecca Bottone, sweetly stratospheric).
Edward Seckerson, The Times, 13th April 2010

...her young maid Marie, played with piquant tenderness by Rebecca Bottone...
Pete Paphides, The Times, 14th April 2010

...well supported by Rebecca Bottone...
Richard Fairman, Financial Times, 14th April 2010

...the perky maid (Rebecca Bottone)
Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 13th April 2010

Marie is played to perfection by Rebecca Bottone, whose clarity of voice and nuanced performance carries the audience along with what could otherwise be a one-dimensional character.
Tom Harvey, www.pinkpaper.com, 13th April 2010

Philharmonia Orchestra/Mackerras

Between the overture and the ravishing Dream Pantomime, we heard three sung passages delightfully enacted by the soprano Rebecca Bottone and mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup.
Paul Driver, The Sunday Times, 20th December 2009

Caitlin Hulcup, stalwart and true of mezzo voice as a boyishly moody Hansel, and Rebecca Bottone, as a disarmingly childlike Gretel of wide-eyed wonder, stood at the side of the avuncular (if not grandfatherly) presence of Charles Mackerras. And they sang and danced on the spot in a charmingly contained yet mischief-filled double act.
Hilary Finch, The Times, 16th December 2009

The singing soloists were dressed for the part, and both played off each other like the caring brother and sister that they are...With Rebecca Bottone (Gretel), they were a well matched pair, and were touching in the 'Prayer' - asking angels to guard them as they sleep in the forest.
Kevin Rogers, www.classicalsource.com, 13th December 2009

ARNE: 'Artaxerxes' - Classical Opera Company/Libury Studio

...though the most affecting performance comes from Rebecca Bottone as Semira, least powerful of the characters. Aside from her immaculate phrasing and exquisite movement, Bottone is the only singer to translate the codified gestures of baroque theatre in her eyes.”
The Independent, Anna Picard, 8th November 2009

But Rebecca Bottone's Semira was outstanding. Tiny as she is, she sings and acts with such intensity that it seems to shake her frame. It's Semira who challenges everyone, and it is she who doesn't accept that Arbaces is a killer. Left to his own devices the poor fellow is a bit of a wimp, despite being sweet. Bottone's passionate portrayal was so strong that she was worth watching even when she wasn't singing. Why she was the only person in the cast dressed like one of the puppets hanging in Marsala Zone? I don't know. Semira is a powerful general's daughter not a peasant, and she's pretty hot - Rimenes fancies her and she's going to be queen when she marries Artaxerxes.
Classical Iconclast, Doundou Tchil, 31st October 2009

...soprano Rebecca Bottone is excellent as Artaxerxes' lover.
Warwick Thompson, 3rd November 2009, Metro

Rebecca Bottone as Arbaces'...sister Semira...brought some vocal weight to the cast.
Alexandra Coghlan, www.musicalcriticism.com, October 2009

Bottone proved herself consistently agile.
Alexandra Coghlan, www.musicalcriticism.com, October 2009

...and Rebecca Bottone splendidly spirited as his lover Semira.
Richard Morrison, The Times, 2nd November 2009

Rebecca Bottone's lighter-toned Semira, dazzles...
Simon Thomas, www.whatsonstage.com, 31st October 2009

...Rebecca Bottone's diamond-edges soprano is a great foil...
Erica Jeal, The Guardian, 1st November 2009

'Le Grand Macabre' - English National Opera

The luscious love music for Amanda and Amando (Rebecca Bottone and Frances Bourne)...were just some of the high points...
Fiona Maddocks, The Observer, 20 September 2009

Under Baldur Brönnimann, ENO's orchestra realise the score with vivacity and discipline, while Watts, Andersson, Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Bourne and Bottone make the absurdities, exaggerations, uglinesses and angularities of Ligeti's vocal writing sparkle. A production like this only comes along once a decade. Forget the whingeing about English repertoire for English companies. This polyglot extravaganza is a triumph.
Anna Picard, The Independent, 19 September 2009

...the musical duetting of Amando and Amanda though the gorgeous blending of the voices of Frances Bourne and Rebecca Bottone lent these passages an almost Straussian headiness and apt eroticism.
Alexander Campbell, www.classicalsource.com. 17 September 2009

Amando and Amanda were sung by Frances Bourne and Rebecca Bottone respectively – yes, Amando is sung by a woman: don’t ask – the latter having to cope with the same kind of mazy coloratura that Ligeti lifts from Lulu, and doing so supremely well. Indeed, I rather wish that ENO would revive Richard Jones’ riotous production of Berg’s opera – at the opposite extreme from Christof Loy’s recent frigid, featureless flop at Covent Garden – just for her.
Stephen Jay-Taylor, Opera Britannia, 17 September 2009

'Patience' - BBC Proms

The cast was perfection...Rebecca Bottone's naive, proletarian Patience.
Tim Ashley, 13 August 2009, The Guardian

And sweet-voiced Rebecca Bottone (Patience) who "cannot tell what this love may be" but spins her bewilderment in two of the most exquisite numbers Sullivan ever wrote.
Edward Seckerson, 12 August 2009, The Independent

Prima Donna - Manchester International Festival

Rebecca Bottone is quite brilliant as the bird-like Marie, flitting to Madame's assistance, trilling her sympathy in the upper registers.
Phil Hogan, The Observer, 19 July 2009

...Bottone sweetly turns her aria "A mon pays de Picardie".
Anna Picard, The Independent, 19 July 2009

...high soprano Rebecca Bottone sounds great in the thankless role of the maid.
Warwick Thompson, www.bloomberg.com, 11 July 2009

...the pert lyric soprano Rebecca Bottone...
Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, 13 July 2009

...although the loudest cheers at the end are reserved for Rebecca Bottone, who is simply stunning as Marie. Her aria at the start of Act 2 was a definite highlight of the performance.
John Murphy, www.musicomh.com, July 2009

...Rebecca Bottone's luminous Marie.
Mark Shenton, www.thestage.co.uk, 14 July 2009

...with equally inspired support from...Rebecca Bottone.
Andrew Clark, The Financial Times, 13 July 2009

Ermione - Opera Rara

Rebecca Bottone as Cleone (Ermione's confidante) was the only high lyric soprano and sang with clarity and beauty.
Robert Hugill, Music and Vision, 28 March 2009

The Adventures of Pinocchio - Minnesota Opera

Supplementing the primary roles are a wealth of delightfully whimsical secondary characters, including scene stealing turns from Rebecca Bottone as the Cricket...
Brad Richardson, www.examiner.com, 1 March 2009

Fans of the Disney movie will be surprised to find the familiar Jiminy Cricket character missing. In his place, is the marvelous Rebecca Bottone as the Cricket - who is crushed, as in the original story, by a Pinocchio who doesn't care to be told what to do. Bottone invigorates wach scene she is in with passion and whimsy.
Rebecca Mitchell, TC Daily Planet, 03 March 2009

Repertoire

OPERA REPERTOIRE

ADES Powder Her Face The Maid
BACH JC Adriano in Siria Sabina
BERNSTEIN Candide Cunegonde
BIRTWISTLE The Minotaur 1st Innocent
BRITTEN A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tytania
BRITTEN Albert Herring Cis
BRITTEN Albert Herring Emmie
DOVE Flight Controller
DOVE The Adventures of Pinocchio Cricket/Parrott
GAZZANIGA Don Giovanni Maturina
GLUCK Clemenza di Tito Servilia
HANDEL Samson Israelite Woman
HANDEL Acis and Galatea Galatea
HANDEL Alcina Morgana
HANDEL Amadigi Oriana
HANDEL Daniel Susannah
HANDEL Samson Dalila
HANDEL Semele Iris
HANDEL Semele Semele(cover)
HAYDN Il mondo della luna Flaminia
HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel Sandman/Dewfairy
JANACEK Cunning Little Vixen Vixen
MASSENET La Charmeuse Thais
MENOTTI The old Maid and the Thief Laetitia
MONTEVERDI Coronation of Poppea Amore
MOZART Apolloet Hyacinthus Melia
MOZART Cosi fan Tutte Despina
MOZART Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Blonde
MOZART Idomeneo Ilia
MOZART Il Re Pastore Elisa
MOZART La Finta Semplice Rosina Rosina
MOZART Mitridate Sifare
MOZART The Magic Flute Papagena
MOZART The Marriage of Figaro Susanna (Cover)
PAISIELLO Barber of Seville Rosina
ROSSINI Adelaide di Borgogna Eurice
SULLIVAN Patience Patience
SULLIVAN Pirates of Penzance Mabel
SULLIVAN The Gondoliers Casilda
SULLIVAN The Mikado Yum-Yum
VERDI Falstaff Nanetta

ORATORIO REPERTOIRE

BACH JS Christmas Oratorio
BACH JS Jauchzet Gott
BACH JS Peasant Cantata
BACH JS St John Passion
BACH JS St Matthew Passion
BEETHOVEN Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II
BEETHOVEN Christ on Mount of Olives
BEETHOVEN Mass in C
BELLINI Mass in A minor
BOCCERINI Stabat Mater
BRAHMS Requiem
BRITTEN Ceremony of Carols
FAURE Requiem
HANDEL Dixit Dominus
HANDEL Jeptha
HANDEL Joshua
HANDEL Judas Maccabeus
HANDEL Marian Cantatas
HANDEL Messiah
HANDEL Samson
HAYDN Creation
HAYDN Imperial ‘Nelson’ Mass
HAYDN Maria Theresa Mass
HAYDN St Cecilia Mass
HAYDN The Seasons
JENKINS Requiem
MENDELSSOHN Hear my prayer
MOZART Coronation Mass
MOZART Exsultate Jubilate (K165)
MOZART Grabmusick
MOZART Mass in C minor
MOZART Missa Brevis in F
MOZART Regina Coeli (K276)
MOZART Requiem
MOZART Sparrow Mass
MOZART Vespers
ORFF Carmina Burana
PERGOLESI Stabat Mater
POULENC Gloria
POULENC Stabat Mater
ROSSINI Petite Messe Solennelle
ROSSINI Stabat Mater
RUTTER Requiem
SCHUBERT Magnificat
SCHUBERT Mass in A flat major
SCHUBERT Mass in G
TIPPETT A Child of our time
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Sinfonia Antartica
VIVALDI Beatus Vir
VIVALDI Nulla in mundo
WEBER Mass in G

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