Soprano Louise Alder studied singing at London’s Royal College of Music. Among her prizes are a Young Singer Award at the International Opera Awards and the Joan Sutherland audience prize at the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Between 2014 and 2019 she was a member of the Frankfurt Opera, where her roles includes Atalanta (Serse), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Despina (Così fan tutte), Gilda (Rigoletto), Musetta (La bohème), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) and the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen. Guest engagements have taken her to the Vienna State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Zurich Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the English National Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Glyndebourne Festival. She is also a passionate lieder recitalist and has appeared in this capacity at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, London’s Wigmore Hall, the BBC Proms, the Graz Musikverein, the Frankfurt Opera, the Bath Mozart Festival and the Snape Maltings as part of the Aldeburgh Festival. Among her accompanists have been Helmut Deutsch, Julius Drake and Roger Vignoles, while the conductors with whom she has worked in the concert hall include Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Simon Rattle, Daniele Rustioni and Jakub Hrůša. She made her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2018 as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, subsequently appearing as Marzelline (Fidelio), as Mozart’s Susanna and as Fiordiligi in a new production of Così fan tutte under Vladimir Jurowski. In September 2023 she is accompanying the Bayerisches Staatsorchester on its European tour, during which she will be heard in performances of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in London and Bucharest.