JOANNA GAMBLE mezzo-soprano [email protected] +44 7956 445240 ROLES PERFORMED Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro Grange Park Opera Polya The Enchantress “ Mrs Wade Wonderful Town “ Annina La Traviata “ Dame Quickly Falstaff (cover) Welsh National Opera Filipyevna Eugene Onegin (cover) “ Countess Queen of Spades (cover “ Dame Quickly Falstaff (cover: 1 performance) Scottish Opera Mrs Peachum The Threepenny Opera Pimlico Opera Auntie Peter Grimes (cover) Opera North Sorceress Dido & Æneas Æstas Musica, Croatia Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia Opera à la Carte: ROH Linbury Studio 2nd Lady Die Zäuberflöte Opera Roffensia; Opex 2000 Gertrude Hansel & Gretel Beauforthuis Festival, Holland De Flarot (title role) premiered at Beauforthuis Grimgerde Die Walküre Fulham Opera Ronald Reagan The Catfish Conundrum The Music Troupe for Têtê à tête Festival Klytemnestra Elektra Secret Opera 2015/16 Fricka Das Rheingold & Die Walküre Secret Opera Ulrica Un ballo in maschera Midsummer Opera Ruth The Pirates of Penzance Ormond Opera Dame Quickly Falstaff Fulham Opera at Wilton’s Music Hall Joanna has an active concert career: engagements have included Dvorak Stabat Mater in Hexham Abbey; Elijah in Wells Cathedral; Messiah in Truro and Gloucester Cathedrals; Feel the the Spirit in Leeds Town Hall; St John Passion in the Queens Hall Edinburgh; Mozart Requiem in St John’s, Smith Square; Petite Messe Solennelle in Ripon Cathedral; Verdi Requiem at Bradford Grammar School; Christmas Oratorio in Bradford Cathedral. She also performs with pianist Kathryn Moseley and violist David Aspin as part of Ensemble Morfeo. “Joanna Gamble’s Ulrica exuded confidence whilst producing luscious low sonorities” Kathryn Wareham, Bachtrack “Expressive singing” - Rodney Milnes, The Times “Joanna Gamble’s strong-voiced, bitter Fricka, a cold, ruthless businesswoman, relished her victory over Wotan while conveying its hollowness” Katie Barnes, Wagner News “The soloists were spectacular…the bravura mezzo soprano Joanna Gamble” Antony Fellows chiswickw4.com“Steady, forthright, meaningful mezzo singing, replete with a beautiful sparingly-sung account of He Was Despised” Sheffield Telegraph
Expressive singing
Steady, forthright, meaningful mezzo singing, replete with a beautiful sparingly-sung account of He Was Despised