Grammy nominated Opera Singer for 2007
“YVETTE BONNER! … this young English songbird had the whole Wigmore Hall audience mesmerised … classical music could not sound much more alive than this…” The Times
“YVETTE BONNER! … this young English songbird had the whole Wigmore Hall audience mesmerised … classical music could not sound much more alive than this…” The Times
Lyric Soprano Yvette Bonner’s career has already taken her to many major opera houses and festivals in Europe and the United States. She is admired for her warm bright voice and fine qualities as a communicator of honesty and conviction. A trained dancer, she has distinguished herself in productions requiring a particularly physical interpretation.
Yvette Bonner studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with the Dip. RAM, the Academy’s highest award for performance and the Blyth–Buesst Operatic Prize, and was recently made an Associate. She was the winner of the Emmy Destinn Award for Young Singers for Czech opera and song.
She made her début with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden as Hermione in Strauss’ Die Aegyptische Helena under the baton of Christian Thielemann, followed by Phillipa Babette’s Feast and Esmeralda The Bartered Bride under Bernard Haitink, a role that she repeated under Sir Charles Mackerras and recorded for Chandos Records in 2005.
Yvette has gone on to work for major companies including the Aix en Provence Festival, as the Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen and Netherlands Opera creating the role of Alice in Knaifel’s Alice in Wonderland and most recently Sarah in Michel Van der Aa’s acclaimed production After Life. Other companies include ENO, WNO, Opera North, Flanders Opera, Houston Grand Opera and Garsington Opera. Her roles include Susanna Figaro, Gretel Hansel & Gretel, Rusalka title role, Oscar, Zerlina, Eurydice Orfeo, Dorinda Orlando, Sophie Werther, Tina in Jonathan Dove’s Flight, Semele Die Liebe der Danae, First Maid Die Aegyptische Helena, Clarine Platee and Jennie Hildebrand in Kurt Weil’s Street Scene recently released on DVD.
In recital Yvette has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, QEH, BBC Proms and is a regular soloist with the CBSO, RPO and ECO. Highlights include her acclaimed Les Illuminations, Carmina Burana, Solveig in Peer Gynt, Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate and Handel’s Messiah.
Her recordings include Strauss Die Liebe der Danae under Elgar Howarth, Albert Herring under Richard Hickox and The Marriage of Figaro under David Parry.
For 2008/9 Yvette will return to Netherlands Opera for a revival of After Life and Grange Park Opera as Atilia in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo.
Yvette Bonner studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with the Dip. RAM, the Academy’s highest award for performance and the Blyth–Buesst Operatic Prize, and was recently made an Associate. She was the winner of the Emmy Destinn Award for Young Singers for Czech opera and song.
She made her début with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden as Hermione in Strauss’ Die Aegyptische Helena under the baton of Christian Thielemann, followed by Phillipa Babette’s Feast and Esmeralda The Bartered Bride under Bernard Haitink, a role that she repeated under Sir Charles Mackerras and recorded for Chandos Records in 2005.
Yvette has gone on to work for major companies including the Aix en Provence Festival, as the Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen and Netherlands Opera creating the role of Alice in Knaifel’s Alice in Wonderland and most recently Sarah in Michel Van der Aa’s acclaimed production After Life. Other companies include ENO, WNO, Opera North, Flanders Opera, Houston Grand Opera and Garsington Opera. Her roles include Susanna Figaro, Gretel Hansel & Gretel, Rusalka title role, Oscar, Zerlina, Eurydice Orfeo, Dorinda Orlando, Sophie Werther, Tina in Jonathan Dove’s Flight, Semele Die Liebe der Danae, First Maid Die Aegyptische Helena, Clarine Platee and Jennie Hildebrand in Kurt Weil’s Street Scene recently released on DVD.
In recital Yvette has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, QEH, BBC Proms and is a regular soloist with the CBSO, RPO and ECO. Highlights include her acclaimed Les Illuminations, Carmina Burana, Solveig in Peer Gynt, Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate and Handel’s Messiah.
Her recordings include Strauss Die Liebe der Danae under Elgar Howarth, Albert Herring under Richard Hickox and The Marriage of Figaro under David Parry.
For 2008/9 Yvette will return to Netherlands Opera for a revival of After Life and Grange Park Opera as Atilia in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo.