Rosie Aldridge
Mezzo-soprano
Mezzo soprano Rosie Aldridge’s career includes regular appearances with leading opera houses, orchestras and conductors around the world.
In the 2024/25 Season, Rosie will make her role debut as Kundry in Calixto Bieito’s production of Parsifal conducted by Cornelius Meister at the Staatsoper Stuttgart; she will make her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Gertrude Hänsel und Gretel; she will return to the Komische Oper making her role debut as Mrs Lovett in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Sweeney Todd conducted by James Gaffigan; at the Opéra national de Lorraine she will appear as Judit Bluebeard’s Castle and Clementia Sancta Susanna and at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden she will return as Else in the World Premiere of Festen – by Mark-Anthony Turnage – directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Edward Gardner.
Career Highlights
Last season, Rosie made her house and role debut at the Berlin Staatsoper as the Kostelnička Jenůfa, a role she also performed to great acclaim at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in a new production directed by Tatjana Gürbaca; elsewhere Rosie returned to The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as The Witch Hänsel und Gretel and she made debut at the Staatsoper Hamburg as Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes at the Grange Festival as Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress.
Rosie recently returned to the Glyndebourne Festival as Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress, Hippolyta A Midsummer Night’s Dream and as Marcellina Le nozze di Figaro and she also returned to the Royal Opera as Mrs Sedley in Deborah Warner’s new production of Peter Grimes conducted by Sir Mark Elder and as Margret in a new production of Wozzeck conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. Rosie made her debuts at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona as The Kabanicha Katya Kabanova; at Staatsoper Stuttgart as The Witch in a new production of Hänsel und Gretel; at the Canadian Opera Company as Mary Der Fliegende Holländer and at the Opéra national de Paris as Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes, a role she debuted at the Teatro Real, Madrid in 2021.
She joined the Ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper in 2016, remaining for two seasons, her appearances included: Annina Der Rosenkavalier; Aksinya Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk; Gertrude Roméo et Juliette; Teresa La Sonnambula; Madame Larina Eugene Onegin; Marthe Faust; Roßweiße Die Walküre and Annina La Traviata in a Gala Performance celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Placido Domingo.
Rosie made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Praskowja Osipovna, Bubliki, & Social Commentator The Nose directed by Barrie Kosky in 2016, returning as Aksinya Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano; as the Beggar Woman and Russian Nanny in Sir David McVicar’s new production of Death in Venice and in the World Premiere of The Monstrous Child as the Goddess Angrboda; at the Komische Oper, Berlin she made her debut as Praskowja Osipovna, Bubliki, and Social Commentator The Nose; at the Opéra national de Lorraine as Nellie Dean in Wuthering Heights and at English National Opera she appeared as Dritte Dame Die Zauberflöte; Gertud Hänsel und Gretel and Aksinya Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov.
On the concert platform her engagements have included Vaughan-Williams Five Tudor Portraits with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and John Wilson; a concert of Baroque arias with the Academia Montis Regalis at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival; Elgar Dream of Gerontius with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall; Verdi Requiem with The Hallé and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and David Parry at the Norwich Festival.
Further appearances include Elgar Sea Pictures with Martin Andre; Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Sir Thomas Allen; Mozart Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall with the English Chamber Orchestra; Dvořák Stabat Mater at the Cadogan Hall, and the Christmas Oratorio at St John’s Smith Square.
Last updated: 13th May 2025
