About
British lyric-coloratura soprano Robyn Allegra Parton is described by Opera magazine as ‘stylish, dynamic and irresistible’, and ‘Captivating. Astonishing. Overwhelming.’ by Opernwelt.
Robyn Allegra Parton
Soprano
Robyn made her operatic debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, and has since gone on to perform as a lyric-coloratura soprano on many of Europe’s stages. For a performance as Violetta in La Traviata she was celebrated as “Captivating. Astonishing. Overwhelming.” by Opernwelt Magazine.
Robyn’s 2024-25 season features a house debut at the English National Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto, and a role debut as the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor for If Opera in the UK. At Theater Münster in Germany, Robyn makes role debuts as Musetta in La Boheme and as Isifile in Il Giasone by Cavalli, and gives concert performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Robyn has performed throughout Europe at theatres and festivals including San Carlo in Naples, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra National du Rhin, Philharmonie de Paris, English National Opera, Folkoperan Stockholm, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Istanbul Music Festival, the Innsbruck Festival for Early Music, and the Gluck Festival in Bayreuth, as well as belonging to the soloist ensembles at Theater Münster and previously the Theater für Niedersachsen.
With a special focus on Italian belcanto and German coloratura roles, Robyn’s repertoire includes Gilda, Violetta, Lucia, Adina, Musetta, Medea (Pacini), Amalia (Mercadante), Micaela, Zerbinetta, Thamar in Leben des Orest (Krenek), Astarte in Der Schmied von Gent (Schreker), 5th Maid in Elektra, and Adele in Die Fledermaus.
Classical and baroque roles include Konstanze, Donna Anna, Pamina, Susanna, Morgana in Alcina (Händel), Semele (Händel), Amélite in Zoroastre (Rameau), Isifile in Il Giasone (Cavalli), and Clelia in Octavia (Keiser).
Contemporary roles include Coraline (Mark-Anthony Turnage) for which Robyn won the Folkoperan Friends’ Soloist Award, Jen in 4.48 Psychosis (Philip Venables), Agnes in Nothing (David Bruce), Narrator in The Sea-Crossed Fisherman (Michael Ellison), Peg in The Virtues of Things (Matt Rogers), Victoria in The Lost Thing (Jules Maxwell), Rita in Great Open Eyes (Manuel Zwerger), and vocal ensemble in Heart Chamber (Chaya Czernowin).
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, Luxembourg Philharmonie and the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra.
Robyn’s debut solo album ‘Burnished Gold’ featuring late-romantic Viennese songs with pianist Simon Lepper was released under the Orchid Classics label in 2023 to critical acclaim, and entered the UK Official Specialist Classical Chart in the Top 10. Other recordings include the roles of Alice and Lucy in Stephen Dodgson’s Margaret Catchpole, songs by Stephen Dodgson, and Charpentier’s Caecilia Virgo et Martyr.
Robyn studied musicology at Worcester College, University of Oxford, and singing at the Royal College of Music, London. Robyn teaches regularly and gives masterclasses in opera studios and conservatories.
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Lucia di Lammermoor, If Opera, August 2024
“a performance of great beauty”
Jonathan Cross
Opera November 2024
“it is the quality of the performance of Lucia sung by Robyn Allegra Parton that is vital, and we have a thrilling and edge of seats engaging soprano who seemed remarkably at ease with one of opera’s most challenging roles.
This is a performer who can deliver with security at the high notes, thrill with the ornate trills and pyrotechnics demanded from the role, and still also prove dramatically convincing”
Opera Scene August 2024
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Gilda, Rigoletto, Theater Münster, February 2023
“Musikalisch überzeugt vieles, vor allem Robyn Allegra Parton, die Gilda ein unschuldiges Leuchten verleiht.”
Edda Breski
Westfällischer Anzeiger February 2023
“schimmernde Sopran-Kadenzen”
Harald Suerland
Westfällische Nachrichten February 2023
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“Robyn Allegra Parton is sensational in the title role. The young Briton, who has already appeared in small roles at the ROH and belongs now to the ensemble of the TFN, is an overwhelming Medea, who finds the right expression for her despair and her vengeance and arouses our compassion. A great career is surely in store for this fine artist.”
Jürgen Gahre
Opera Now May 2022
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“Robyn Allegra Parton, since the start of this season member of the ensemble of the Theatre for Lower Saxony, is Violetta one and Violetta two (as well as the private British soprano herself, Robyn Allegra Parton, who looks gravely into the camera through video projection). And she’s quite amazing. Captivating. Astonishing. Overwhelming. Not only vocally, which in itself is a tour de force, since the orchestra sound comes from speakers (the choir and orchestra, previously recorded separately in the rehearsal hall under the direction of GMD Florian Ziemen, are played with a time delay during the evening), but also and above all in terms of performance. We see a seductress of high grace whirling across designer Telse Hand’s stage garnished with movable blocks; a woman who conveys with bursting vitality and credibility just about all the emotional states to which her two wayward identities are exposed. This Violetta is strong, stubborn, unruly; where necessary she shows her claws and the male world its limits. But that is only one side. Whenever she sits down (and literally so) at the edge of the pit or steps up to the piano to accompany herself, we experience her highly injured, tender, melancholic nature, which so obviously suffers; and this suffering – not only in the F minor andantino “Ah fors’ è lui” – is dressed in the most precious pianissimo tones.”
Jürgen Otten
Opernwelt August 2021
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Amelia, I Briganti, Saverio Mercadante, Theater für Niedersachsen, September 2020
“Robyn Allegra Parton was ravishing in the part, which she crowned with some soaring high notes in her Act 3 prayer.”
Carlos Maria Solare
Opera November 2020
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Hugh Canning
The Sunday Times
“sweetly, seductively brilliant”
Richard Bratby
The Spectator
“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
2024
IF Opera
Belcombe Court
BA15 1LZ
Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti
Aug 2024: 23, 27, 29, 31
2024
English National Opera
The London Colisseum
Gilda, Rigoletto, Verdi
Oct 2024: 30
Nov 2024: 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 19, 21
2024/2025
Theater Münster
Münster, Deutschland
Soprano, Ninth Symphony, Beethoven
Sep 2024: 10, 11, 15
Musetta, La Boheme, Puccini
Dec 2024: 14
Jan 2025: 11, 26
Isifile, Giasone, Cavalli
May 2025: 31
Jun 2025: 5, 15, 19, 29
Jul 2025: 1, 12
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Burnished Gold, June 2023
“It is refreshing to encounter a singer – Robyn Allegra Parton – whose gifts of curation are it would seem equal to her musicianship.
The silvery quality of her voice coupled with the reach and seductiveness of its coloratura facility potentially lends itself to music centuries apart. There is, too, a curiosity, an inquisitiveness, in her response to these songs – why the notes are where they are in the first place and how they serve and communicate the poetry.”
Edward Seckerson
Gramophone, September 2023
“The heart of the album is the Seven Early Songs of Alban Berg, performed here with dazzling grace, pathos and imagination.“
Natascha Loges
BBC Music Magazine, September 2023
“Die Britische Sopranistin singt die Marx’schen Piecen mit silbriger, fein ziselierter, sensibel schattierte Stimme und einer sehr gut ausbalancierten pianopianissimo-Kultur.
[Mit Richard Strauss] kann Robyn Allegra Parton ihr erkleckliches gestalterisches Potenzial, ihre ausgewiesene Musikalität ausspielen.”
Jürgen Otten
Opernwelt, September 2023
Recordings
Burnished Gold
Robyn Allegra Parton, Simon Lepper
Charpentier: Music Sacree
Choir of New College Oxford, Oxford Baroque, Edward Higginbottom
Gallery
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Robyn is represented by Isabella Pitman at IMG Artists
ipitman@imgartists.com
Photography by Victoria Cadisch
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