Performers & composers

Loré Lixenberg

The mezzo soprano Loré Lixenberg is a performer of spectacular intensity and expressiveness. The warmth, range and agility of her voice impress just as much as her total absorption in any role.

Her rich experience in the area of music theatre includes performing the lead role in Bent Sørensen's opera Under Himlen at the prestigious Royal Opera House in Copenhagen. She performed in Weill's The Firebrand of Florence alongside Thomas Hampson at the Konzerthaus in Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival she sang in Guy Vivier's Marco Polo with Klangforum Wien. She has also sung Miss Donnithorne in Peter Maxwell Davies' Miss Donnithorne's Maggot at the Almeida Theatre and Mrs Green in Birtwistle's Down by the Greenwood Side. She has performed throughout Europe at numerous festivals including Wien Modern, Oslo's Ultima and the festivals in Lucerne, Edinburgh, Witten, Donaueschingen and Aldeburgh.

Loré Lixenberg has performed as soloist with several distinguished orchestras and ensembles including BBC Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, BCMG, Cikada, Ensemble Aventure and Apartment House. She regularly performs as part of a trio with pianist Rolf Hind and violinist David Alberman. Together with pianist Joanna MacGregor she featured in the BBC2 television series Strings, Bows and Bellows, and with performance artist Simon Munnery in the avantgarde comedy series Attention Scum, also on BBC2. In the autumn of 2004 she featured in the documentary What made Mozart tick, broadcast by Channel 4.

Her performance of Cage's Aria at a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert in London in January 2004 was rapturously received by audience and critics alike (see Reviews). In early 2005 Loré Lixenberg was the soloist in Stuart MacRae's Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino for voice and ensemble in performances with BCMG in Lisbon and Birmingham.

Loré Lixenberg sang the main operatic role in Richard Thomas' award-winning Jerry Springer - The Opera at the Edinburgh Festival, the National Theatre and in London's West End as well as on the subsequently released CD. She is due to star in six comedy operas commissioned from Richard Thomas by BBC television, which are scheduled to be broadcast in 2006.