Sorek Artists - Louise Kemény

A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Louise Kemény is a former Britten-Pears Young Artist, Independent Opera Fellow and Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. She is the recipient of the Ian Smith of Stornoway Opera Prize, Basil A.Turner Prize, Joaninha Trust Prize and David Goldman Award.

In 2018/19, she joined the ensemble at Theater Bonn, where roles so far have included Romilda/Xerxes, Pamina/Die Zauberflöte and Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel. This season, she returns to the house for role debuts as Sophie/Der Rosenkavalier, Susanna/Le Nozze di Figaro, Marzelline/Fidelio and Primadonna in Maurizio Kagel’s Staatstheater. She will also appear at the Händelfestspiele Karlsruhe as Seleuce in Tolomeo, conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli in a new production by Benjamin Lazar.

Other recent opera engagements include Barbarina/Le nozze di Figaro for De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Iphis/Jephtha in Hanover, Teofane/Ottone for English Touring Opera, Tiny/Paul Bunyan and Little Moon-Soprano Actor/A Night at the Chinese Opera for British Youth Opera, Tytania/A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Jano/Jenufa for Scottish Opera, Poppea/Agrippina for Iford Arts, Second Woman/Dido and Aeneas for La Nuova Musica at Wigmore Hall, and Serpetta(cover)/La Finta Giardiniera and Elisa(cover)/Hipermestra Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Louise Kemény is passionate about the creation and interpretation of new music and has created three lead roles in new operas – Woman/Unknown Position and Girl/Bonesong (Kate Whitley), and Wife/Nauset (Joel Rust) – to critical acclaim.

Concert highlights include Mendelssohn’s Elijah, conducted by Christopher Moulds, and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, both with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the soprano solos in Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Concerto Köln and Peter Dijkstra, Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, directed by Mark Padmore, Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Kasseler Musiktage, 1st Soprano in Mozart’s Mass in C minor at Snape Maltings, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, and Orff’s Carmina Burana at Cadogan Hall. A keen exponent of 20th century and contemporary repertoire, Kemény has performed Stravinsky’s Les noces with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and a programme with Schoenberg’s 2nd Quartet, Pierrot Lunaire, Ravel’s Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé and Stravinsky’s 3 Japanese Lyrics at London’s Conway Hall.

In recital, Louise Kemény has performed at the MozartFest Würzburg, and with Malcolm Martineau at the Bath Festival in a programme of Spanish song. For Oxford Lieder Festival she sang Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen and Schoenberg’s 2nd Quartet, and at St John’s Smith Square in a solo recital featuring works by Strauss, Britten, Ravel, Debussy and Chausson. She has also appeared at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Wigmore Hall and Snape Maltings.

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Opera

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Concert

Composer	Work

* studied/partly performed
Beethoven	Fidelio	Marzelline
Bellini	I Capuleti e i Montecchi	Giulietta*
Bloch	Macbeth	Lady McDuff
Britten	Paul Bunyan	Tiny
Britten	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Tytania
Cavalli	Hipermestra	Elisa
Debussy	Pelléas et Mélisande	Mélisande
Donizetti	L'Elisir d'Amore	Adina*
Dove	Siren Song	Diana
Gluck	Orfeo ed Euridice	Amor
Gluck	Orfeo ed Euridice	Euridice*
Händel	Semele	Semele*
Händel	Agrippina	Poppea
Händel	Ottone	Teofane
Händel	Xerxes	Romilda
Händel	Jephtha	Iphis
Händel	Tolomeo	Seleuce
Haydn	Il Mondo della Luna	Flaminia
Humperdinck	Hänsel und Gretel	Gretel, Taumännchen
Janáček	Jenůfa	Jano
Janáček	The Cunning Little Vixen	Vixen*
Lange	Die Schneekönigin	Prinzessin
Meyerbeer	Le Pardon de Ploërmel	Dinorah*
Monteverdi	L'Incoronazione di Poppea	Poppea*
Mozart	Lucio Silla	Celia*
Mozart	Idomeneo	Ilia*
Mozart	La Clemenza di Tito	Servilia*
Mozart	La Finta Giardiniera	Sandrina*
Mozart	Don Giovanni	Zerlina
Mozart	Die Zaubeflöte	Pamina
Mozart	Le Nozze di Figaro	Susanna, Barbarina
Mozart	La Finta Giardiniera	Serpetta
Purcell	Dido and Aeneas	Dido
Rameau	Hippolyte et Aricie	Aricie*
Ravel	L'enfant et lès sortilèges	Le Feu
Rust (Joel)	Nauset	Wife
Strauss	Der Rosenkavalier	Sophie
Strauss	Elektra	5. Magd
Verdi	Rigoletto	Gilda*
Weir	A Night at the Chinese Opera	Little Moon/Soprano Actor
Whitley (Kate)	Bonesong	Girl
Whitley (Kate)	Unknown Position	Girl

Opera

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Concert

Composer	Work

Bach	Cantata: Wer da gläubet	Soprano
Bach	Das Weihnachtsoratorium	Soprano
Bach	Magnificat in D	1st Soprano
Bach	Matthäus Passion	Soprano
Beethoven	Missa Solemnis	Soprano
Berg	Sieben Frühe Lieder
Brahms	Ein deutsches Requiem	Soprano
Grier	Sword in the Stone	1st Soprano
Händel	Dixit Dominus	1st & 2nd Soprano
Händel	Messiah	Soprano
Haydn	Kleine Orgelmesse	Soprano
Mendelssohn	Elias	Soprano
Mendelssohn	Symphony 2, Hymn of Praise	1st Soprano
Monteverdi	Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610	1st & 2nd Soprano
Mozart	Mass in C Minor	1st Soprano
Mozart	Requiem	Soprano
Mozart	Vesperae solennes de confessore	Soprano
Mozart	Thamos, King of Egypt
Orff	Carmina Burana
Pergolesi	Magnificat	Soprano
Poulenc	Gloria	Soprano
Rossini	Petite Messe Solennelle	Soprano
Rossini	Stabat Mater	Soprano
Schubert	Mass in G	Soprano
Stravinsky	Les Noces
Vaughan-Williams	Serenade to Music
Vivaldi	Gloria	1st Soprano

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"[...] und Louise Kemény als blutjunge Sophie mit wunderschönen Höhenflügen in zartesten Piano-Tönen."

Aachener Zeitung, R. Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier - Theater Bonn, October 2019

"Louise Keményi (Sophie) besticht durch ihre feine lyrische Stimmfärbung und musikalische Differenzierung. In der Rosenüberreichung lässt der Regisseur ihre wechselseitige [...] Faszination leider allzu sehr in linkischer Befangenheit stocken. Sängerisch ist die Szene indes exzellent gestaltet, ebenso wie das Schlussduett."

Kölner Stadtanzeiger, R.Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier - Theater Bonn, October 2019

"Louise Kemény singt die Spitzentöne der Sophie im intensiven Pianissimo [...], die schöne, junge Stimme passt ausgezeichnet zu der Rolle."

omm.de, R.Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier - Theater Bonn, October 2019

"Eric Saties "Socrate" [...] Das Drama spielt sich hier ausschließlich auf der Textebene ab, die von Louise Kemény vollendet wiedergegeben wurde."
"Im französischen Parlando-Flow zeigte sie […] sprachlich einige Finessen, die beim Zuhören immer wieder aufhören ließen. Auch stimmlich bezauberte die Absolventin des Royal Conservatoire of Scotland über alle Maßen."

General-Anzeiger Bonn, Liederabend - Theater Bonn, February 2019

"Louise Kemény mimt die Gretel jungmädchenhaft mit farblich nuancenreich-lyrischem Sopran."

Kultura Extra, E. Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel - Theater Bonn, November 2018

"[...] Duett „Quis est homo“, das Louise Kemény mit klar timbriertem Sopran und Maria Fiselier mit warmem Alt-Wohlklang gestalteten."

hna.de, Kasseler Musiktage - G. Rossini, Stabat Mater, November 2018

"Die allseits begehrte Romilda gibt LOUISE KEMÉNY als etwas tapsiges Girly.[...] Toll die vokale Bravour der Sängerin."

onlinemerker.com, G.F. Händel, Xerxes - Oper Bonn, October 2018

“Accompanied by two oboes, soprano Louise Kemény deployed a radiant timbre, with ethereal vibrato, very well suited to the spirit of joy, hoping, anticipating, the resurrection of Christ.”

Olyrix.com, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion, March 2018

“Louise Kemény, her voice like a flash of silver, sounds beautiful in the ‘Ave Maria’ from 1895.”

Gramophone Magazine, Signum Classics, Fauré Songs, vol 3 (Martineau), February 2018

"La Barbarine de Louis Kemény possède une voix assez riche pour qu’on l’imagine sans peine dans des rôles plus lourds."

forumopera.com, W.A. Mozaert, Le Nozze di Figaro - De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam , September 2016

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