Rosie Aldridge

Rosie Aldridge Mezzo-soprano

Biography

Rosie Aldridge made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Praskowja Osipovna, and Social Commentator in The Nose directed by Barrie Kosky, and returned since in the roles of Mrs Sedley (Peter Grimes), Aksinya (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), the Beggar Woman (Death in Venice) and Angrboda (The Monstrous Child). Other operatic appearances include Kabanicha (Kátia Kabanová) at Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, the Witch (Hänsel and Gretel) at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Baba the Turk (The Rake's Progress) and Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Glyndebourne Festival, Mrs Sedley (Peter Grimes) at Teatro Real Madrid, Prascovia Osipovna and Social Commentator (The Nose) at Komische Oper Berlin, Nellie Dean (Wuthering Heights) at Opéra national de Lorraine and Gertude (Hänsel and Gretel) and Aksinya (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) at English National Opera. She has worked with conductors such as Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Mark Elder, Simone Young, Kirill Petrenko, Mark Wigglesworth and Semyon Bychkov, and many directors including Deborah Warner, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Sir David McVicar, Richard Jones, David Alden, Claus Guth and Barrie Kosky. This season, Rosie Aldridge will perform at the Canadian Opera Company as Mary in The Flying Dutchman. She will also return to the Glyndebourne Festival as Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), the Royal Opera House as Mad Margret (Wozzeck) and the Staatsoper Stuttgart as the Witch (Hänsel and Gretel) and to Opéra national de Lorraine and Teatro Real Madrid. She will also make her debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hamburg, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Dutch National Opera and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.