Acclaimed British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote's résumé may not be long -- she is young -- but it is astonishingly deep and encompassing. Slim and attractive, she has made a specialty of what are called ...

Every word she sang Friday at the Herbst Theatre was English. But mezzo-soprano Alice Coote's beguiling San Francisco Performances recital unfolded as a tour of infrequently visited territory. While ...

Rallying round: conductor Michael Wilson Thomas with Alice Coote and the LSO - Mark Allan Sometimes the meaning of a musical performance soars above those purely musical qualities we critics love so ...

In comparison with her bolder experiments, the “songs of life, loss and love” she performed with pianist Christian Blackshaw at the Wigmore Hall looked at first glance like a fairly conventional – if ...

Experience Massenet’s Cinderella with Joyce DiDonato in the title role, Alice Coote as Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de ...

Some themed concert programmes are perfectly planned and balanced; others just hang together, but feel overly contrived; others still (I’m looking at not a few Proms programmes) slap any old stuff ...

In 2021, Michael Tilson Thomas – conductor laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra – was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain tumour. Recent outings for the San Francisco ...

In the first of two recitals at Wigmore Hall, mezzo Alice Coote gave a mesmerising performance of Schubert’s late song cycle. What marks this singer out as exceptional is not just a startlingly ...