Last season, De Niese made her debut as Alice Ford in Verdi Falstaff with Hamburg State Opera. On the concert platform, De Niese performed Weill Seven Deadly Sins with the New World Symphony, a double bill of Purcell Dido and Aeneas and Seven Deadly Sins with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Poulenc La Voix Humaine with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and gave a recital in The Master Series at King’s Place.
Recent operatic highlights include Dido in Dido and Aeneas and Seven Deadly Sins at Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Valli di Reggio Emilia, a feature film of La Voix Humaine with Sir Antonio Pappano and the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Hanna Glawari in Lehár The Merry Widow, Ciboulette in Offenbach In the Market for Love, the title role in Massenet Cendrillon, Rosina in Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia, Concepción in Ravel L’heure espagnole, L’enfant in L’enfant et les sortilèges, Norina in Donizetti Don Pasquale, and Adina in L’elisir d’amore — all for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. She also returned to LA Opera to star in the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice and made house debuts as Cleopatra in Handel Giulio Cesare at Teatro alla Scala and Norina in Don Pasquale at Hamburg State Opera. Other roles include Musetta in Puccini La bohème at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Norina in Don Pasquale for La Monnaie and Wiener Staatsoper, Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow for Opera Australia, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Semperoper Dresden, Adina in L’elisir d’amore at Opéra national du Rhin, the title roles in Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea at Teatro Real Madrid, Handel Partenope and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at San Francisco Opera, Semele for Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Cavalli La Calisto at Bayerische Staatsoper, and Poppea in Handel Agrippina for Gran Teatre del Liceu.
On the concert platform, she premiered two new Macmillan works at The Cumnock Tryst, performed at the Brighton Dome Festival with pianist Matthew Fletcher, and presented her Baroque to Broadway programme with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Additional highlights include Stravinsky Perséphone with the Boston Symphony, her Edinburgh International Festival debut in A Grand Night of Singing, Bernstein Wonderful Town with Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO, opera galas with RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, multiple BBC Proms and Proms in the Park, as well as appearances at the Ravinia Festival, the Barbican, and Snape Proms.
West End highlights include Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha at the London Coliseum and recently starred alongside Michael Ball in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love at the Lyric Theatre.
A prolific recording artist, her debut recording for Decca Handel Arias was awarded the prestigious Orphée d'Or from and the much-coveted ECHO Klassik award, as well as earning her a Classical Brit Award nomination for Female Artist of the Year. The Mozart Album, Diva, and Beauty of the Baroque followed.
An Emmy Award-winning TV personality since age 16, de Niese has hosted BBC documentaries such as Diva Diaries, The Birth of an Opera, and Unsung Heroines, promoting opera to wider audiences.
Offstage, de Niese is passionate about music education, an advocate for children’s rights and has been named by Marie Claire magazine on its influential list of 'Women on Top'. She is an Ambassador for HRH The Prince of Wales’ Foundation for Children and the Arts, a patron of Future Talent and Pegasus Opera, and is an Artist Member of the Mannes Board of Governors. De Niese also serves as an official Ambassador of Voice for the International Rescue Committee.
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