Miriam Allan
Artist Reviews
"stylish [Isifile] steals the show several times"
“the timbre is one of polished gold from the top to the bottom.”
“the vocal magic of the night…she took the audience’s breath away.”
"What can one say about the soprano Miriam Allan except that ‘every Haydn should have one’? Clearly enjoying all her numbers, she channelled an intelligent understanding of the musical idiom throughout – the very definition of unconscious competence. Every note was crafted for attack, dynamic change, timbre and ornament, such that her silvery top notes tinkled above the chorus in The marv’lous work, a summery verdant landscape was summoned in With verdure clad and Eve’s soon-to-be-shattered loving innocence came shining through in the warm rendering of O thou, for whom I am!"
Biography
Soprano Miriam Allan’s exquisite voice has enchanted audiences worldwide, including a memorable performance at the funeral of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Recent highlights include a recital tour in Australia, collaborations with the Instruments of Time and Truth, Collegium Vocal Gent, and Les Arts Florissants, as well as Vivaldi performances with Pinchgut Opera. She has also appeared in concert with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Peter Whelan, at the Vézelay Festival with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García-Alarcón, at the Wigmore Hall alongside Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo, and performed in The Indian Queen with Concert d’Astrée. Additionally, she has lent her voice to documentary recordings exploring Monteverdi’s life.
Miriam’s operatic repertoire features performances with Pinchgut Opera, the Innsbruck Festival, and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. She has graced some of the world’s most prestigious stages, including the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center in New York, and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
Her extensive discography includes award winning recordings of Monteverdi and Gesualdo. Recent releases include Gesualdo Madrigals with Collegium Vocale Gent and Bach Cantatas with Les Arts Florissants. On the release of the Giasone recording, Gramophone remarked that her “stylish [Isifile] steals the show several times,’ whilst Voix des Arts wrote of the same performance “the timbre is one of polished gold from the top to the bottom.”
Her collaboration with organist James Orford and the London Choral Sinfonia of works by Jean Langlais enriches her repertoire.
Engagements with The Ulster Consort, Il Convito, La Nuova Musica and Les Arts Florissants will be highlights of the 2024/2025
season.
May 2025
For Oratorio and Concert repertoire please scroll down:
| Oratorio and concert rep | |
| Composer | Work |
| Arne, Thomas | The Morning |
| Bach, J.S | Alles Mit Gott |
| B Minor Mass | |
| Easter Oratorium | |
| Magnificats in D and E flat | |
| St John Passion | |
| St Matthew Passion | |
| Solo cantatas 51, 182, 199, 202, 131, 140, 147, 149, 198 | |
| Weihnachts Oratorium | |
| Carissimi | Jepthe |
| Charpentier | Te Deum |
| Cherubini | Miss Solemnis |
| Couperin | Leçons de Tenebres |
| Faure | Requiem |
| Handel | Alexander’s Feast |
| Belshazzar | |
| Dixit Dominus | |
| Gloria | |
| Israel in Egypt | |
| Jeptha | |
| Joshua | |
| Messiah | |
| Silete Venti | |
| Haydn | Creation |
| Maria Theresa Mass | |
| Miss Sancti Nicolai | |
| Nelson Mass | |
| Monteverdi | Vespers |
| Mozart | Exsultate Jubilate |
| Mass in C Minor (both soprano parts) | |
| Requiem | |
| Vesperae Solonnes de Confessore | |
| Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Pergolesi | Stabat Mater |
| Purcell | Come Ye Sons of Art |
| Fairy Queen | |
| King Arthur | |
| Rameau | In Convertando |
| Rossini | Petite Messe Solennelle |
| Rutter | Requiem |
| Magnificat | |
| Schubert | Mass in G |
| Vaughan Williams | Serenade to Music |
| Vivaldi | Dixit Dominus |
| Gloria | |