louise mott - mezzo soprano
Louise Mott rightly underplayed Agrippina's villainy with the straightest of faces and sang with consistently beautiful and expressive mezzo tone.
Rodney Milnes - The Times
Agrippina - EOC - St John's, Smith Square
Stealing Aria from The Shops by Edward Rushton
Stealing Aria from The Shops by Edward Rushton
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Louise Mott studied at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal College of Music, before completing her training at the National Opera Studio.

Louise made her débuts at English National Opera as Bradamante Alcina, Welsh National Opera as Annio La Clemenza di Tito and Opera North as Annina Der Rosenkavalier, followed by Fidalma Il matrimonio segreto. She sang Ariodante for English Touring Opera and Mme Larina Eugene Onegin for Scottish Opera on Tour. For the Early Opera Company she has sung Edith Alfred (Thomas Arne)AgrippinaRuggiero Alcina, AriodanteSesto Giulio Cesare, Orlando, Rosmira PartenopeMelissa Amadigi, Serse and Dido Dido and Aeneas. Other roles include Meg Page Falstaff for Diva Opera and Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Second Lady The Magic Flute and Marcellina Marriage of Figaro for Opera Project, Katarina Schratt Mayerling for The Royal Balletat The Royal Opera House.

Contemporary opera performances include for Almeida Opera: Ion (Param Vir), God's Liar (John Casken) and Marguerite Hey, Persephone! (Deidre Gribbin) and Marlinchen The Juniper Tree (Roderick Watkins), also at the Muffathalle, Munich; for The Opera Group: Emerald Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (Holloway) and Blind Mary The Martyrdom of St Magnus, Penelope Linen from Smyrna(Edward Rushton) and Cordula Wagner The Shops (Edward Rushton) at the Bregenz Festival and in the Linbury, Royal Opera House; for Tête à Tête: Penelope in Odysseus Unwound, Angela in Push (David Bruce) and Lite Bites (The Opera Festival). Other performances have included Blind Mary The Martyrdom of St Magnusat the Oslo Kammermusik Festival and with the Hebrides Ensemble at the Orkney Festival, Marcella Alban (Tom Wiggall) at St Albans Abbey and Wife/Sphinx/Doreen Greek (Mark-Anthony Turnage) with the London Sinfonietta.

Recent engagements have included Mozart's Requiem and Solemn Vespers for the Bach Choir and the OAE at the Royal Festival Hall, London, Fricka, Erda, Flosshilde and Gutrune in EPOC's Pocket Ring Cycle, Priestess Seven Angels (Luke Bedford) for The Opera Group, Praskowia The Merry Widow for Opera Project, Marquise Berkenfield La Fille du Regiment, Count Orlofsky Die Fledermaus Party Scene and Second Lady Die Zauberflöte for Diva Opera in the UK and on tour in Europe and Helen King Priam at the Brighton Festival

Engagements for 2013 include 2nd Witch (& Dido cover) Dido and Aeneas for Opera North, La Frugola Il tabarro & La Ciesca Gianni Schicchi for Caledonian Opera at Haddo House Hall, Dido Dido and Aeneas for St Albans Chamber Opera and Flora Bervoix La Traviata for Diva Opera.


diary
La Traviata (Flora Bervoix) (G. Verdi)
  • 6th June 2013 - The Skinners Hall - London
  • 14th June 2013 - Lulworth Castle - Dorset
  • 20th June 2013 - Syon Park - London
  • 25th June 2013 - The Whittaker Hall, St James - Guernsey
  • 29th June 2013 - Stuckeridge House - Devon
  • 4th & 6th July 2013 - Holkham Hall - Norfolk
  • 16th July 2013 - Domaine des Vaux - Jersey
  • 6th August 2013 - Cormeilles - France
  • 9th & 11th August 2013 - Festival de la Vézère - France
  • 23rd & 24th August 2013 - Les Azuriales Festival, St Jean, Cap Ferat - France
  • 21st September 2013 - Septembre Musical de l'Orne - France
  • 2nd October 2013 - The Stroke Association, Drapers' Hall - London
louise mott - mezzo soprano