About
British lyric-coloratura soprano Robyn Allegra Parton is described by Opera magazine as ‘stylish’, ‘dynamic’ and ‘irresistible’, and as a ‘standout’ by The Observer.
“Roles in 2018 include Zerbinetta (Longborough Festival Opera), the title role in Coraline by Mark-Anthony Turnage (Royal Opera House, Barbican Theatre) and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Musik und Theater Saar).
In 2015, Robyn performed Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Robyn has created the roles of Agnes in Nothing by David Bruce (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Peg in the Virtues of Things by Matt Rogers (Royal Opera Linbury), and the Narrator in the Sea-crossed Fisherman by Michael Ellison (Istanbul Music Festival). Other roles include Morgana in Alcina by Handel (Ryedale Festival Opera), excerpts of Mozart heroines in Amadeus for the National Theatre, and Clelia in Octavia by Reinhard Keiser (Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik) for which she was praised by German press Online Musik Magazin for her ‘clear high tones and clean, flowing coloratura’.
As a concert artist Robyn has performed with ensembles including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Baroque Soloists, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Oxford Philharmonic, Luxembourg Philharmonie and the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra. Robyn has recorded the title role in Charpentier’s Caecilia Virgo et Martyr for Novum and songs for soprano, oboe and piano by Stephen Dodgson for Toccata Classics.”
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“sweetly, seductively brilliant” (Zerbinetta)
Richard Bratby
The Spectator
“The singers are out of the ordinary:
Robyn Allegra Parton as Zerbinetta, every note in place.”
Hugh Canning
The Sunday Times
“Zerbinetta’s “Grossmächtige Prinzessin” is so stunningly dispatched by Robyn Allegra Parton
that one wouldn’t shorten it by a single quaver”
Stephen Walsh
The Arts Desk
Media
Schedule
10 November 2018 7.30pm
St George’s Bristol
Goodall
Eternal Light: A Requiem
Bath Camerata & Bristol Ensemble
25 November 2018 7.30pm
The Church of St John the Baptist, Burford
Mozart
Mass in C Minor
Burford Singers & Cotswold Chamber Orchestra
04 December 2018 23.59
Stephansdom, Stephansplatz, Vienna
Mozart
Requiem
The Really Big Chorus
08 December 2018 7pm
Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall, University of Essex, Colchester
Schubert
Mass in G
Durante
Magnificat
University of Essex Choir & London Mozart Players
19 January 2019
The Chapel, Worcester College, Oxford
Händel
Messiah
Worcester College Chapel Choir
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“Zerlina’s emergence as a force to reckon with intrigued and delighted me”
Antony Craig
Gramophone
Recordings
Charpentier: Music Sacree
Choir of New College Oxford, Oxford Baroque, Edward Higginbottom
Gallery
