Sophie Daneman

Introduction

Sophie Daneman is particularly noted for performances of the Baroque repertoire and especially her regular collaboration with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie. Among their many recordings together, three have been recent recipients of Gramophone Awards. Her recent engagements include the title role in ‘Semele’ with Nicholas McGegan, Handel’s ‘L’Allegro’ with William Christie, her return to the Bavarian State Opera for ‘Dido and Aeneas’,  her first Susanna for Grange Park Opera and Handel's Cleopatra in Goettingen. She performed the role of Telaire (‘Castor et Pollux’) with Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Salle Pleyel, Paris; returned to the Göttingen Handel Festival as Dalila (Handel's ‘Samson’); sang ‘Skellig’ (by Tod Machover) at The Sage, Gateshead, Haydn's ‘The Creation’ with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra and McGegan, Haydn’s ‘Stabat Mater’ with Fabio Biondi and Phaedra (Rameau’s ‘Hippolyte et Aricie’) for the Nationale Reisopera. Engagements include a recital tour with Christianne Stotijn in Spain and the Netherlands, recitals with Ian Bostridge in London and Hohenems, performances of Shoenberg’s Quartet Op. 10 with the Tokyo String Quartet, in Valencia and Madrid, and a tour of Lully’s ‘Atys’ with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie.

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Biography

Press Reviews

Tokyo String Quartet: Palau de la Musica, Valencia, April 2010

'Daneman cantó estupendamente estas piezas, y todavía mejor en los dos últimos movimientos del Segundo cuarteto de Schoenberg.'
Levante, April 16, 2010

'Sophie Daneman los cantó con toda la contención e intimidad que esta música requiere. Su voz, de registros uniformes y bien coloreados, se acopla como un guante al dificil terreno del Lied. Canta también ópera, pero sabe diferenciar terrenos.'
El Pais, April 17, 2010

Wigmore Hall/ Concordia - July 14, 2009

'Soprano Sophie Daneman - a baroque specialist who is also a whizz at Bernstein... Daneman has a big and forceful sound...'
The Independent/ Michael Church - July 22, 2009

Skellig - The Sage, Gateshead 2008

'...Sophie Daneman (warmly lyrical as she sings to her frail child) and Paul Keohone get under the skin of Michael's distracted parents.'
The Independent, December 3, 2008

'...and to have a singer of Sophie Daneman's stature in the role of his mother is a real luxury. Her plangent aria by her baby's hospital bedside is Machover's most conventionally lyrical piece of writing, yet Daneman delivers it with a pure intensity of tone, making it the emotional highlight of the score. Skellig may be a strange form of heavenly creature, but Daneman has the most angelic voice on display.'
The Guardian, November 26, 2008

Le nozze di Figaro – Grange Park 2006

'The outstanding performance was Sophie Danemants Susanna, her soprano as bright and her singing as pointed as a new pin, her persona mature but alluring/. We need to see Daneman in more of the lighter Mozart roles.'
Hugh Canning/ Opera Magazine, August 2006

'… Sophie Daneman is a charming Susanna, sweetly besotted with her groom, yet sexily undressing down to a slip while exchanging outfits with the Countess in her deh vieni.'
The Stage, June 22, 2006

Discography

BEETHOVEN 

Irish, Welsh and Scottish Songs
With Paul Agnew, Peter Harvey
Astree Naïve      2984908850
2001

Repertoire

BERNSTEIN  
Wonderful Town  (Eileen Sherwood)

DEBUSSY  Pelléas et Mélisande  (Melisande)

HANDEL  
Acis and Galatea  (Galatea)
Arianna in Creta  (Arianna)
Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra)
Rodelinda (Rodelinda)
Semele (Semele)
Theodora (Theodora)

HAYDN  
L’Anima del Filosofo (Euridice)

MONTEVERDI 
L’Orfeo (Euridice)

MOZART  
La clemenza di Tito  (Servilia)
Le nozze di Figaro  (Susanna)

PURCELL  
Dido and Aeneas (Belinda)

RAMEAU  
Hippolyte et Aricie (Phedre)

VIVALDI  
Ottone in Villa (Tullia)

Contact

Peter Bloor

Jonathan Turnbull

General Management: Askonas Holt