King Arthur, Academy of Ancient Music
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You almost forgive this, though, when you hear the radiant singing of soprano Louise Alder. Hers is a voice that combines gleaming tone and elegant phrasing with a sense of joyful freedom. THE FINANCIAL TIMES, Hannah Nepil, October 2017
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In one of the most celebrated numbers of Purcell’s King Arthur, Fairest Isle, the singer — .. the beguiling soprano Louise Alder — bathes Britannia in compliments... Vocally, none was as stylish as Alder... THE TIMES, Neil Fisher, October 2017
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Some numbers slotted easily into Evans’s conception, not least the climactic aria Fairest Isle, captivatingly sung by soprano Louise Alder as she stood on a chair next to Richard Egarr’s harpsichord. THE GUARDIAN, Erica Jeal, October 2017
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Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Glyndebourne on Tour
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Louise Alder, as easy on the eye as on the ear, gave exemplary accounts of 'Batti, batti', 'Vedrai carino' and her contribution to 'Là ci darem'.
OPERA, Hugh Canning, November 2016
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His relationship with Zerlina was the only one that had any chemistry and Louise Alder’s energetic assumption of the role did much to contribute to this. Her chirpy soprano was silkily deployed for a no holds barred seduction in “Batti, Batti”; her Zerlina knew exactly what she wanted and how to get it. BACHTRACK, Dominic Lowe, October 2016
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Rock’s partnership with Louise Alder’s feisty, exceptionally well sung Zerlina yielded a performance of ‘Là ci darem la mano’ which approached very near perfection.
MUSICOMH, Melanie Eskanazi, October 2016
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Taken as a whole, this is the best cast I've yet heard in the Kent production... Louise Alder and Božidar Smiljanić a deliciously dysfunctional Zerlina and Masetto, both singing beautifully while she manipulates him and he traduces her, there is not a weak link. WHAT'SONSTAGE, Mark Valencia, October 2016
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Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Glyndebourne Festival Opera
The singing is outstanding from all concerned: direct, clear, simple and devastating... Lucretia (Christine Rice), Bianca (Catherine Wyn-Rogers) and Lucia (Louise Alder) sing in sweet harmony. THE TIMES, Anna Picard, July 2015
Finely supported by Louise Alder’s precise Lucia. GUARDIAN, George Hall, July 2015
A magnificent ensemble of singers could not be bettered... the subsidiary roles of Junius, Bianca and Lucia are strongly taken by Michael Sumuel, Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Louise Alder. TELEGRAPH, Rupert Christiansen, July 2015
Louise Alder’s youthful, impetuous Lucia completed this outstanding ensemble cast. MUSICOMH.COM, Melanie Eskenazi, July 2015
The voices of Christine Rice, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Louise Alder and Duncan Rock are hauntingly beautiful. BACHTRACK.COM, David Karlin, July 2015
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Gala des Liedes, Musikverein Graz, Austria
Thomas Quasthoff, Helmut Deutsch, Louise Alder, Angelika Kirchschlager, Michael Schade, Andrè Schuen
Quasthoff charmant moderierte und damit die 28-jährige derzeit in Frankfurt engagierte Engländerin Louise Alder einführte, die an diesem Abend in Graz mit Benjamin Brittens aus fünf Liedern bestehenden Zyklus „On this Island“ nach Gedichten von Auden debütierte. Das sind in unseren Breiten selten gehörte Lieder mit fast opernhafter Emphase, die Louise Alder intensiv gestaltete. Sie nahm das Publikum mit ihrer warmen, klaren und koloraturensicheren Stimme sofort für sich ein.
DER OPERNFREUND, Hermann Becke, April 2015
Die Engländerin Louise Alder glänzte mit jugendlichem, expansionsfähigem Sopran. KLEINE ZEITUNG, Ernst Naredi-Rainer, ​April 2015
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Louise Alder and James Baillieu, Brighton Festival, UK
Louise Alder began with Gypsy songs by Schumann, one bright-voiced and the second beguilingly plaintive. This whole concert was full of delightful contrasts. Playful, passionate, world-weary, James Baillieu’s masterful programming could not have been more varied or enchanting, as in the five Szymanowski songs and Panufnik’s wordless ‘Hommage à Chopin 1 & 2’ which were so beautifully haunting. Alder’s voice seemed to mature and grow in Schumann’s wistful Mignon-Lieder. Liszt’s Three Petrarch Sonnets demanded a vast emotional range from both performers and Alder’s top Ds were thrilling. The exuberant encore, ‘Love Went A‑Riding’ by Frank Bridge, made a stunning climax. THELATEST.CO.UK, Andrew Connal, May 2015
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Louise Alder and John Paul Ekins, Wigmore Hall
There was no opera whatsoever on the programme. Most of the musicians were string players. So why did this performance - the last in Wigmore Hall's latest Park Lane Group Young Artists season - feel like a high-octane night at the opera? One reason: Louise Alder, a wonderful soprano and the concert's main attraction. Recently graduated from the Royal College of Music, this young singer oozes potential as an opera diva, and not just because of her vocal quality - seductive, pliable and calorific though it is. Alder is an unhibited actress, with a bewitching ability to get to the core of a text and embody it wholeheartedly. She knows how to hypnotise her audience.
FINANCIAL TIMES, Hannah Nepil, April 2014
This varied, demanding programme indisputably marked soprano Louise Alder as a name to watch. Remarkably assured, and accompanied empathetically and imaginatively by pianist John Paul Ekins, Alder revealed an alluring voice characterised by lyrical charm and astonishing power, particularly at the top; and her vocal prowess was complemented by a sure sense of poetic meaning and musical poetry. OPERA TODAY, Clare Seymour, April 2014
Gabrielle (La Vie Parisienne), Royal College of Music, Britten Theatre
Balancing the excellent Bobinet and Gardefeu was the brilliant Gabrielle from Louise Alder. Her generous, focused soprano and big personality suited her disguise as an Austrian widow perfectly, and her yodelling aria sung in front of a huge projection of a cow's face, will stay with me for some time.
OPERA MAGAZINE, Peter Reed, August 2013
Louise Alder's voice immediately stood out as the Glovemaker, and then in her increasingly elaborate and show stealing scenes (including a superbly delivered yodel song) she distiguished herself as an immediately castable young singer. Her acting is fluent, her movement on stage very natural and her voice is beautifully produced - a shimmery ribbon of excellent legato which never stints on diction. CAPRICCIO MUSIC, July 2013
Clomiri (Imeneo), London Handel Festival, RCM, Britten Theatre
All the performances were outstanding and of a consistent quality. However perhaps half a head above the others for me was the other soprano, Louise Alder as Clomiri... In the case of this production of Imeneo, Miss Alder's performance of 'Se ricordar ten vuoi' was the finest example of true Handel singing I heard all night. Miss Alder has amastered the art of making ornamentation sound fluid, elegant and, above all, natural - when it is probably the most artificial aspect of the opera seria tradition... it was Miss Alder's comic timing which was for this critic pa excellence. OPERA BRITANNIA, Miranda Jackson, March 2013
But as so often in his operas of this type, the seconda donna - Louise Alder's sprightly teasing Clomiri - ran off with the show... reminding me of Lesley Garrett's ENO Atalanta (Serse) and Dalinda (Ariodante), and Camilla Tilling's Dorinda (Orlando) at Covent Garden. OPERA MAGAZINE, Hugh Canning, May 2013
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