Alison Buchanan
British soprano Alison Buchanan has performed on both sides of the Atlantic, the Middle East and Asia in repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to the Contemporary. She first came to international attention when she, at the last minute, replaced Monserratt Caballé with the Royal Philharmonic at the Proms in London.
Since then she has made débuts at the New York City Opera as Bess in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, the San Francisco Opera as Mimi in La Bohème, the Opera Company of Philadelphia as Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffman and the Los Angeles Opera where she covered as Nedda in I Pagliacci alongside Placido Domingo, directed by Franco Zefferelli.
In the 1999/2000 season, touring with Sir Collin Davis and the European Union Youth Orchestra lead to further performances with the esteemed maestro, including Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Bayerischen Rundfunk in Munich and Britten's Peter Grimes with the London Symphony. She has also appeared as soloist with the BBC Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall in London, the Haydn Chamber Orchestra in Haydn's Creation for the Covent Garden Opera Festival and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music in England and the Cutis Institute in Philadelphia (as a Wingate Fellow and Countess Munster Award recipient), she is the winner of several international competitions including the Luciano Pavarotti, the Kathleen Ferrier, the Washington International and the Maggie Tayte, which enabled her to make her Royal Opera House recital début.
An avid new music lover, Buchanan has most recently performed the role of Maude in a concert version of Victor Herbert's Eileen with the Little Orchestra Society of New York, the lead role of the Spirits in the world premiere of Elena Ruehr's Toussaint Before The Spirits with the Boston Modern Opera Project and Blanch in André Previn's opera A Street Car Named Desire, under the composer's direction.
Upcoming performances include appearances at the Blumenthal Festival in Israel, the Jacksonville (FL) and Philippines symphonies and a US tour with the Ritz Chamber Players.