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Rosie Aldridge is increasingly recognised for the breadth and depth of her repertoire, ranging from Wagner, Janáček and Stravinsky to Sondheim and Turnage. Her performances span major dramatic heroines, the great comic characters and contemporary creations, demonstrating a remarkable vocal and theatrical range.
In the 2025/26 season, Rosie will make her debut at Opernhaus Zürich singing the dual roles of the Witch and the Mother in a new production of Hänsel und Gretel. She returns to the Staatsoper Berlin, creating the role of Anubis in the World Premiere of Das Kalte Herz composed by Mathias Pintscher and she will also make her role debut as Mrs Grose in a revival of Turn of the Screw; at Deutsche Oper am Rhein she appears as the Kabanicha in Katya Kabanova directed by Tatjana Gürbaca, and to English National Opera for her role debut as the Widow Begbick in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. On the concert platform, she makes her debut at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam as Mrs Sedley in Peter Grimes with the Dutch Radio Orchestra, and returns to Scottish Opera as Brangäne in concert performances of Tristan und Isolde.
In the 2024/25 season, Rosie made her role debut as Kundry in Calixto Bieito’s production of Parsifal at the Staatsoper Stuttgart conducted by Cornelius Meister. She also made her debut at Bayerische Staatsoper as Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel and at the National Theatre, Prague as the Kostelnička in a new production of Jenůfa directed by Calixto Bieito. She returned to Komische Oper Berlin as Mrs Lovett in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Sweeney Todd conducted by James Gaffigan, and to the Opéra national de Lorraine as Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle and Clementia in Sancta Susanna. At the Royal Opera House, she created the role of Else in the World Premiere of Festen by Mark-Anthony Turnage, directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Edward Gardner.
In recent seasons, 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 her 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.
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“While Klingsor plays with the fire that is also evident on stage, this heated embers are particularly captured by Kundry, in Rosie Aldridge's electrifying performance… Rosie Aldridge's witchy Kundry in the second act, portrays a fiery, warring couple who are also capable of very intimate moments of connection. Especially in the quieter passages, Rosie Aldridge's Kundry possesses a beguiling slenderness and tonal versatility that is rarely heard.”
OnlineMerker
“Mezzo-soprano Rosie Aldridge is the most convincing. She sings a fiercely acting Kundry with strong intonation in the high notes, whose dual existence as a contemporary witness of Golgotha in need of redemption and a compliant creature of the renegade Klingsor is convincingly portrayed.”
Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung
"Rosie Aldridge's mezzo-soprano as Kundry is sensational, as is her strength and transparency as the only woman in the Grail Temple. A seer, mother figure, whore, and saint, the projection screen for all male fantasies.”
Heilbronner Stimm City Edition
"And Rosie Aldridge gave a multifaceted Kundry with a characterful voice possessing seemingly inexhaustible reserves and a dramatic, at times drastic, delivery that clearly demonstrated how close Wagner had come to the gateway of expressionist musical theatre.”
Classical Criticism (Blog)
"The English mezzo-soprano Rosie Aldridge enjoyed great success here at the State Opera with her interpretations of Kostelnička. Given such a long and difficult role as Kundry, revealing her temperament in the second act, which was truly remarkable for its dramatic intensity and expressiveness, both vocally and theatrically.”
Mozart2006 (Blog)
“Another role debut comes from English mezzo-soprano Rosie Aldridge. Her voice is smooth and conversational, lending a distinctive, spoken quality to the cursed Kundry. No need for subtitles here; every word is crystal clear. This isn’t by accident. When she shifts into seduction mode, attempting to lure Parsifal, her voice transforms—becoming more sung, more dramatic, as if she’s performing Verdi instead of Wagner. It’s a subtle yet effective shift that highlights her vocal versatility. Her voice is impressively balanced, with a deep richness that can also soar to higher, lighter notes—nearly impossible to resist.”
Blogfloejten (Blog)
"Else, the mother who saw what was going on, gives Rosie Aldridge more to get her teeth into during another speech, and her ultimate breakdown is spectacular." Arts Desk
"Special praise must go to Rosie Aldridge as Else who performs brilliantly. When Aldridge lets out the most harrowing scream upon Helge’s (Gerald Finley) presumed death, it is a scream of many complexities — of grief, regret, embarrassment. Does she love her husband? Does she love her children? This is nuance of the highest order in which Aldridge excels. Brava to these this bystander matriarch.” The Critic
"Helge’s wife, a hurricane force Rosie Aldridge, silently becomes her own conundrum. Revealed to have been aware of her husband’s grim perversions, her silence is more than complicity but enablement." Broadway World
"Rosie Aldridge gives stature to the conflicted mother, Else." Financial Times
"Rosie Aldridge as Else was vocally completely captivating” - Gramophone
"Rosie Aldridge, a striking Sister Klementia reliving, at the whim of her young companion’s fall, the guilt of an old trauma, embodies a magnificent Judith in Bartok. A powerful and well-projected voice, with peremptory high notes, the British mezzo-soprano plays with the pitfalls of a role that demands as much sensuality as fierce determination." Le Monde
“Rosie Aldridge’s is voice, powerful and well projected... she embodies the sensuality of the lover, the fear of the young woman, as much as the authority of the heroine. It triumphs over all the rigors of the score by crowning everything with a peremptory High C held at the opening of the fifth door.” Forum Opera
“In the sparse setting - like in a black and white Hitchcock crime thriller - Aldridge is such a great Judith vocally that you definitely give her the win. Whether fortissimo or withdrawn, her voice remains round, balanced and, above all, beautiful in sound.” KlassikFavori.de
"Rosie Aldridge is an exquisite Judith, flowing into her character, moving from mutinous curiosity to absolute anguish." Poly.fr
“In guise of an almost inquisitive Judith, she lends her powerful and percussive mezzo, crowned with an easy and triumphant High C.” Olyrix
"Rosie Aldridge is a rasping, implacable Leokadja Begbick, the emcee of it all!” The Times
“Rosie Aldridge is a tough Leokadja Begbick with a husky chesty sound, especially when dealing with the men, and a soaring, rich mezzo-soprano at other times.” Musical Theatre Review
“Rosie Aldridge is a formidable Widow Begbick, cutting the whisky with liquid siphoned off from the tank next to the urinal.” The Guardian
“Aldridge commands the stage – an absolutely towering performance as the bitter grande dame, whose pronouncements carry the death penalty, and whose capacious mezzo can bark or croon or soar.” Opera Now
"Rosie Aldridge as Begbick was equally vocally powerful and a thoroughly convincing leader of the fleeing criminals, with her transformation into ‘judge’ in Act III offering a chilling insight!" London Unattached
"British mezzo soprano Rosie Aldridge is the widow Leokadja Begbick. Aldridge relishes being the leader of her gang and delivers a strong and impressive rendition of her part whilst displaying her considerable vocal range.” therecs.co.uk
"Rosie Aldridge spits out daggers of capitalist cynicism as a formidable Begbick, the city's founder." Financial Times
"Rosie Aldridge brings a fine blend of punch and pizazz to Leokadja Begbick, leader of the criminal gang that creates the moral wasteland that is the titular city of Mahagonny." The Stage
“The three principals are all quite magnificent. As Widow Begbick, Rosie Aldridge rules Mahagonny, her city of empty pleasure, with an iron fist. Whether she’s in a boiler suit as the city’s founder or delivering pantomime justice in an orange Barbie-style wig, there’s never any doubt she’s in charge.” The Arbuturian
“Three other singers blew us into the back of our seats with larger-than-life performances. Rosie Aldridge bossed the show as the Widow Begbick, incarnating her character’s absolute certainty of being in charge but also turning on the operatic vocal charm.” Bachtrack
"It is Rosie Aldridge however, who rips up the production book and whips up a storm as the lip-smacking Witch. She brings the stage alive through the gleeful force of a personality – hers or her character’s, it matters not which – that persists right through to her scene-stealing curtain call." Bachtrack
"Rosie Aldridge’s Witch, a rich-voiced pantomime dame, making the most of every moment, provides a theatrical star turn."The Guardian
"As the Witch, Rosie Aldridge threw caution to the wind and proved to be the standout performance of the night. When she appeared the stage suddenly bristled with energy, which came as a welcome relief after the torpor that had gone before – her rich, fruity mezzo suited the role to perfection." MusicOMH
"Rosie Aldridge is a fun but venomous Witch — a vast improvement on the gender-swapped casting in 2018."The Times
"When I last saw Rosie Aldridge in a production of Hansel and Gretel she was performing the role of the put-upon Mother in ENO/Regent’s Park’s collaboration in June 2019. Here she was transformed from a portrait of flawed motherhood to the epitome of freakish monstrosity – a brilliantly bravura Witch who stole the show: garish costumes, commanding gestures, vocal splendour and all. It was almost a shame to witness her demise by chocolate." Opera Today
"... in fact, the scenes at the house are the productions strongest, thanks to Rosie Aldridge's punchily characterised, spicily sung witch. Dressed - and nicely undressed - in zesty costumes, she has wit and, most especially, a precision oddly lacking elsewhere" The Stage
" The Witch is usually a chance to show a dazzling characterisation and Rosie Aldridge didn’t disappoint. Alongside Aldridge’s excellent tone and projection, she portrayed a gleefully malicious witch with the capacity to swing into unstinting villainy, emerging at first as a gingerbread baking vision of pink puffs and peppermint gingham." London Unattached
"Rosie Aldridge makes the Kostelnichka musically and playfully breathtaking. Jenůfa sleeps, the baby cries and the Kostelnichka sings and plays her way into the brutalising tunnel that ends in infanticide. Doubtful. Despairing. Full of energy. Spirited. Determined. Attractive. Looking into the abyss of hopelessness. Her powerful voice sings all of this into my heart and pierces it. A chill runs down my spine. She welcomes the child's father, Števa, and tries to persuade him to accept the child and marry Jenůfa - she fails. What is best for the foster daughter Jenůfa, what gives her a reasonably good perspective? While singing, the Kostelnichka deludes herself into helping her daughter by murdering her grandson! Rosie Aldridge presents this character in a truthful, frighteningly relatable, achingly perfect way. Rosie Aldridge stands out and burns into my memory with her impressive performance this evening!" Klassik Begeistert
“With a stage personality as strong as Rosie Aldridge's and with her Witch in “Hansel and Gretel,” one could only begin to guess what substance the Englishwoman’s mezzo-soprano possessed. Here the voice opens up with effortless effort to generously measure the required range of registers with a bright touch in the top and dark depths that are recorded with emphasis. Her drastic grip in the increased drama testifies to the freshness of her voice. Her big scene in the second act, which ends unnecessarily with the child murder on stage, gets under your skin.” Online Merker
"Particularly noteworthy is the British mezzo-soprano Rosie Aldridge, who gives her sexton a truly existential, fateful presence, both vocally and scenically, and with this splendid singing performance, she also gives additional format to Bieito's production of the opera, which premiered in Brno in 1904 and was titled "Your Foster Daughter" in the Czech original." LKZ.de
"Rosie Aldridge delivered a brilliant acting performance in the role of the Sexton, which she also sang magnificently with a clean, impasto mezzo-soprano and impeccable top notes." Operafreund
"Rosie Aldridge with a brilliant cameo of the busybody and amateur crime sleuth Mrs Sedley, dressed and made up to the spitting image of Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote." Bachtrack
"Rosie Aldridge sang the hard role of Mrs. Sedley. One does not want to make her as charismatic as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, but Mrs. Sedley cannot be the nosy neighbor of “Bewitched,” Gloria Kravitz—a character that, for many reasons, should stay in the past. Rosie Aldridge makes Mrs. Sedley annoying, but also compelling; she becomes a finer form of problematizing the true intentions animating any justice-seeking person, even when they are truly after a real crime, and they are efficient in their investigations. Aldridge has a powerful instrument and great projection; her mezzo tone works perfectly for Britten, and her voice has focus and the clarity in all registers that is much needed in this role: qualities not so easy to find in mezzo-sopranos." Operawire
"Rosie Aldridge has a mezzo voice full of colour and mischief, and a presence which ensures we don’t take our eyes off her whenever she’s on stage." The Independent
"It was Rosie Aldridge as Baba the Turk who stole the show. A genuine singing actor, she provided the complete package of humour, pathos and forgiveness, bringing dignity to a role whose (misogynistic, racist) “joke” in present times has worn pretty thin!" Opera Magazine
"Rosie Aldridge was magnificent in her three contrasting roles, approaching every note with gusto!” Limelight Magazine
“Rosie Aldridge staked triumphant claim on a new Fach as a passionate Composer, producing streams of trenchant, smoky-tinged tone and articulating her words with old-school precision!” Opera Magazine
"Rosie Aldridge, the most accomplished of the cast and the finest actress." Bachtrack
“Rosie Aldridge was magnificent, from her initial drunken entry in ‘The Tunning of Elinor Rumming’, to the myriad emotions of the long Jane Scroop movement, this was a singer relishing every one of the opportunities given her, communicating her characterisations and various moods with no little artistry – and dead in tune.” Classical Source
"Rosie Aldridge’s warmly appealing, non-caricatured Marcellina is another hit." The Times
"Rosie Aldridge's Florence Pike was superb, a Lady Billows in waiting, I suggest." Opera Britannia
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