Next year will mark Clonter’s 50th Anniversary, and we want to make sure it is the best year yet, but in order to make it to 50 we need your help. Any funding raised will help us be able to celebrate Clonter’s 50th Anniversary and continue to provide a nurturing and supportive place for emerging talent to flourish and entertain our audiences for generations to come.
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Best Wishes for The Magic Flute
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“Bisset was a revelation, her mesmerising voice fired by a passion and vitality that were overwhelming”
The Independent
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“Lee Bisset is revelatory, her rich and luminous sound ideally suited to Wagner, and always compelling”
The Guardian
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“Lee Bisset’s ravishing soprano blazed beautifully”
Martin Dreyer, Opera Magazine
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Lee Bisset’s first operatic role was Tatyana in Eugene Onegin for Clonter in 2003, returning to sing Violetta in La traviata in 2006.
Lee’s move into the spinto and dramatic soprano repertoire is bringing her increasing international attention, as she establishes a reputation for her vocal stamina and versatility, and for the passion, commitment and sincerity of her acting.
Last Season Lee made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden singing the role of Liza in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, and sang Isolde at the Konzert Theater, Bern, Switzerland.
Born and brought up on the banks of Loch Lomond, in Scotland, Lee studied first at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, before moving to Rimini, Italy where she studied privately for several years. On returning to the UK she completed her post-graduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio, where she was sponsored by English National Opera.
Operatic performances include Mimì La bohème for English National Opera, the title role in Tosca for Opera Memphis and Opera Omaha, and also for Opera Omaha, Minnie in La Fanciulla del West. She has sung the title roles in Kat’a Kabanova for Longborough Festival Opera, and Jenůfa for Scottish Opera. She sang Isolde Tristan und Isolde, for Longborough Festival Opera, Sieglinde Die Walküre for both the Theatro Municipal, São Paulo and for Opera North. Also for Opera North she sang Freia Das Rheingold and Dritte Norn Götterdämmerung. For the Opera de Bellas Artes, Mexico City she performed Senta Der fliegende Holländer. For Dorset Opera Festival she sang Leonore Fidelio, Lady Macbeth Macbeth, and Chimène in Massenet’s Le Cid and and for Scottish Opera, in the contemporary works Five:15. She will sing all the Brünnhildes in the new Longborough Ring which starts in 2019 and culminates in the full cycle in 2023.
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