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Rebecca Bottone

Introduction

Rebecca Bottone is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. 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. 

This is for information only and should not be reproduced. Please contact Kate Baylis for a full biography and for performance details.

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Gallery

  • Carousel (Carrie), Théâtre du Châtelet 2013

  • Production images

  • Sweeney Todd (Johanna), Théâtre du Châtelet 2011

  • A Little Night Music (Anne), Théâtre du Châtelet 2010

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Tytania), Garsington Opera 2010

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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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Schedule

Barbican Centre, London


Programme

Handel: Imeneo 

Rebecca Bottone - Rosmene
Lucy Crowe - Clomiri
Vittorio Prato -Imeneo
Stephan Loges -Argenio

The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood

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Press

Corelli at Christmas, Avison Ensemble

Kings Place, London
Soprano Rebecca Bottone is one of the most versatile performers on the operatic stage today. She gets her charisma from her father, the tenor Bonaventura Bottone, but her chameleon ability is all her own.

Exploits which stick in the memory include her crazy apparition in a flayed-flesh body-stocking in Gyorgy Ligeti’s absurdist fantasy Le grand macabre; her great-coated Forties Tytania in the Garsington production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and her rivetingly comic performance in a medley of soubrette roles in the Linbury revival of Powder Her Face.

So it was interesting to encounter her as herself – well, as a soprano in Baroque recital mode – with the Avison Ensemble at Kings Place.

‘Corelli at Christmas’ was the title, but Bottone sang works by contemporaries of that Italian master. Little is known about Philipp Friedrich Boddecker whose ‘Natus est Jesus’ was the first motet she sang, but that merry hymn to maternity allowed the quality of Bottone’s voice to shine: a pure tone with a carrying edge, and here with an additional hint of comedy.

In Giacomo Carissimi’s ‘Salve, salve, puellule’ she presented a kaleidoscope of moods, subtly dramatizing each one, and she wound up with two cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann, singing these latter so bewitchingly that one could well understand why Bach venerated that great contemporary to the point of making him godfather to his second son.
Michael Church, The Independent, 31st December 2012

RODGERS&HAMMERSTEIN

The Sound of Music

Théâtre du Châtelet
Rebecca Bottone est une Liesl totalement crédible malgré sa différence d'âge avec les enfants. La voix possède la fraicheur et la pureté souhaitée, la légèreté de ses déplacements, sa fine silhouette et son joli minois parachevant l'illusion d'adolesence.

Elisabeth Bouillon, www.forumopera.com, 7th December 2011

JANACEK

The Cunning Little Vixen

Rydale Festival

Rebecca Bottone could well have been born to take the part of the vixen, her voice and size so utterly perfect as she moves from shyness to motherhood.

David Denton, The Yorkshire Post, 22nd July 2011
Rebecca Bottone's charismatic Vixen carried the show, vivacious, emotional and clear-toned. We travelled every step of her up-and-down path and breathed a sigh of relief when she was 'reborn'.
Martin Dreyer, Opera Magazine, September 2011

HANDEL

Theodora

Capella Cracoviensis
The star of the night was Rebecca Bottone who, from the first aria, charmed with her gentle, but at the same time, dramatic voice which perfectly matched the character of Theodora.
Thomas Handzlik, Gazeta Wyborcza Kraków, 28th February 2011

DOVE

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Opera North
Once seen and heard, never forgotten.  There’s the death and evergreen resurrection of Rebecca Bottone’s Cricket — I could listen to her chirping song all day and all night. 
Hilary Finch, The Times, September 2010

Rebecca Bottone is a glorious Cricket with an amazing vocal range and an equally entertaining cockney Parrot. 

Audrey Pointer, www.thepointerreviews.com, 17th September 2010
there is a virtuoso performance as the Cricket from Rebecca Bottone, comically dispatched with a mallet early in Act One.
Graham Rickson, www.theartsdesk.com, 17th September 2010

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, Covent Garden
...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