Elisabeth Wingfield

Soprano

Elisabeth Wingfield is singing at the Opera South Soirée Music on a Summer’s Evening on 9th June 2007.

Elisabeth trained in Italy at the Conservatorio Pietro Mascagni in Livorno, and in Rome with Letizia Calzolari. She currently studies with Paul Farrington.

Recent performances on the concert platform include Richard Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder in Durham Cathedral with the Durham Sinfonia, conductor Baldur Bronniman; Mozart concert arias in Warsaw with the Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna; and twelve world premieres for soprano and chamber ensemble at the Sage in Gateshead. Elisabeth's many concerts with the Southbank Sinfonia, conducted by Simon Over, both in London and at the Anghiari Festival in Italy, include Vivaldi’s solo cantata Laudate Pueri, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and three gala concerts with music from La boheme, Norma, La traviata, Tosca, and Cosi fan tutte. She has also performed concerts in Graz, Austria as part of the AIMS in Graz program.

On the oratorio platform in England and Italy, Elisabeth has sung Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Elgar’s The Kingdom, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bach’s St John Passion and the Coffee Cantata, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater; and she has understudied Verdi’s Requiem for the Parliament Choir at Westminster Cathedral.

Elisabeth loves singing Verdi, and made her operatic debut as Oscar in Un ballo in maschera; other Verdi roles include Gilda and the title role in Giovanna D’Arco (cover).

For the Vlaamse Kammeroper in Belgium, Elisabeth has sung Fiordiligi, and in Italy she has sung Dorina in Pergolesi’s Il Geloso Schernito, Ottavina in Sacchini’s L’amor soldato at the Stia International Music Festival, and Fanny in Rossini’s Il cambiale di matrimonio at the Conservatorio Pietro Mascagni in Livorno.

Future engagements include concerts in Jamestown, Virginia, at the Anghiari Festival with the Southbank Sinfonia in Italy, and in Warsaw with the Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna; and the Verdi Requiem. When she is not singing, Elisabeth is a very enthusiastic cook and she also likes writing scurrilous children’s stories.