ROBYN ALLEGRA PARTON (Soprano) A finalist in the 2012
Kathleen Ferrier Awards and holder of the Helen Clarke Award
from Garsington Opera, Robyn Allegra Parton read Music at
Worcester College, Oxford, before furthering her studies at
the Royal College of Music, London, and completing the
Monteverdi Choir Apprenticeship and ENO's Opera Works
programme.Awarded the Youth Prize at Salzburg's 2012 Oper Im Berg Festival, Les Azuriales Festival's Young Artist Prize in 2011, a Philip and Dorothy Green Young Concert Artist Award 2011 for Making Music, the prestigious Joaninha Trust award in 2010 and the 2009 Oxford Lieder Festival Scholarship, her operatic roles have included Mercédès' Carmen at the Opéra Comique de Paris, The Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen and Zerlina Don Giovanni for Co-Opera Company, Solo Ensemble L'Orfeo at the Munich State Opera, Belinda Dido and Aeneas for the Britten-Pears School and Peg The Virtues of Things at the Linbury Studio Theatre.
Concert highlights have included Handel's Israel in Egypt with the English Baroque Soloists conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Messiah with the Really Big Chorus and Royal Choral Society, The Creation with the Oxford Philomusica, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra, Schumann's Das Paradies und Die Peri and Manfred with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Manfred with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Highlights of 2015 / 2016 included Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro with the Royal Opera, London, creating Agnes in David Bruce's Nothing for Glyndebourne, creating Narrator in Michael Ellison's Deniz Kuüstü at the Istanbul Music Festival, Singing Words: Poets and their Songs for the 2015 Oxford Lieder Festival and Mozart Mass in C Minor with the London Mozart Players.
During 2016 / 2017, Robyn Allegra Parton appears in the Royal National Theatre production of Amadeus. She will also sing Clelia in Reinhard Kaiser's Octavia at the 2017 Innsbruck Festwochen der Alten Musik.