Opera
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Yvonne Fontane has had outstanding success in the title role of CARMEN including at Queensland Opera in Brisbane, the Raymond Gubbay/Royal Albert Hall Production with the BBC Concert Orchestra as well as at Opera Holland Park with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the celebrated choreographer Craig Revel Horwood. Also, at Castleward Opera in Northern Ireland, the Belfast Grand Opera House, on the London City Opera/Columbia Artists' extensive USA tour and at Stowe Opera in Buckinghamshire. Yvonne joined the RTE Irish Radio Concert Orchestra in Dublin and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hampton Court Festival for concert performances of CARMEN. In 2013, Yvonne sang the role of Carmen for Winslow Hall Opera, UK. |
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2009 saw Yvonne in her debut as AMNERIS (Aida) for the Grand Open Air Festival Idée Fixe in Brussels, Liège, Gent and Namur. She returned to the role of AMNERIS at Chiemgau Festival's 2011 season in Germany with the Muenchner Symphoniker. |
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In 2007, Yvonne Fontane joined the cast of Pegasus Opera for performances at the Sadlers Wells Theatre in London in the opera KOANGA by Frederick Delius singing the role of CLOTILDA. This production was in support of the bicentenary celebrations of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain. 2007 also offered the opportunity for Yvonne to extend her repertoire into the dramatic soprano fach when she sang the role of SANTUZZA (Cavalleria Rusticana) at Lakeland Opera in Cumbria with great success. Other operatic engagements included JENNY'S GIRL (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Kurt Weill) and DULCINÉE (Don Quixote/cover) at English National Opera. In a double-bill of Weill's MAHAGONNY SINGSPIEL and Darius Milhaud's LES MALHEURS D'ORPHEE, Yvonne appeared as BESSIE and SOEUR AINNEE/LE LOUP respectively in Augsut 2012 with the Orquesta Filharmónica de la UNAM in Mexico City. This production was conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig and directed by Nicola Raab. Yvonne has also sung MADDALENA (Rigoletto) on an extensive UK tour for Mid Wales Opera and Diva Opera and she returned to Opera Holland Park to sing LA ZIA PRINCIPESSA (Suor Angelica) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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In contrast, Yvonne has sung the trowser roles in LA CANTERINA and LO SPEZIALE at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria under the musical direction of Stephan Vladar and the New Austro/Hungarian Haydn Philharmonia. She has also performed CHERUBINO at Opera Holland Park again with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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Yvonne has performed at Stowe Opera for four seasons since 2003. She performed DIE HEXE (Hansel und Gretel), followed by the above mentioned CARMEN (Carmen) in 2004 and then DORABELLA (Cosi fan tutte) in 2005. In July 2012, she made her long-awaited return to Stowe Opera (now Winlsow Hall Opera) at their newly found home at Winslow Hall in Buckinghamshire, UK as LA CONTESSA (Le Nozze di Figaro). |
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A live broadcast with the RTE Irish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Gerhard Markson heard Yvonne perform DIE HEXE (Hansel und Gretel) in 2009, a role she also sang throughout 2008, together with the role of DIE MUTTER on an extensive tour to Europe and the UK with Diva Opera. In 2009, Yvonne recorded the role of PHEADRA (The Bride of Dionysus) by Donald Tovey for the Dutton Epoch Label, specialists in British Music. This was in colaboration with the BBC Ulster Orchestra and was crowned RECORDING OF THE MONTH by www.musicweb-international.com in April 2010. |
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Two more concert performances were KOSTELNIÇKA (Jenufa) with the Nottingham Philharmonia and GRIMGERDE (Die Walkuere) with the Oxford Philomusica under Mario Papadopoulos. |
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Since late in 2014, Yvonne has been working in the fach of the lyric dramatic soprano, such as Tosca for London Festival Opera. She is excited to continually extend her repertoire in that fach. |
