Laura Alonso Padín (born 2 January 1976), known as Laura Alonso, is a Spanish operaticsoprano. She began her career in 1999 when she became a member of the Aalto Theatre in Essen, Germany. She has appeared as a guest artist with major theatres and musical ensembles internationally.
As a guest artist, Alonso has made appearances at numerous concert venues and theatres internationally. In Europe she has sung at leading theatres in Pisa, Düsseldorf, Mannheim, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Nancy, Braunschweig, Poissy, Freiburg, Lübeck, Barcelona, and Breno. Her performance credits also include appearances at the Auditorium in Rishon Le Zion (Israel), Palacio de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Teatro de Guanajuato, Philharmonie de Cologne, Musikhalle in Hamburg, Konzerthaus and Philharmonie in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Dortmund and Essen, Kuppel Saal in Hannover (Germany), Herodes Aticus in Athens, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Los Angeles Auditorium, and Palau de Valencia and Barcelona, among others. She has performed with several important conductors, including Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Heiko Mathias Förster, Philipp Jordan, Carlos Kalmar, Jiří Kout, Ion Marin, Víctor Pablo Pérez and Stefan Soltesz. Some of the other opera roles in her repertoire include Antonia, Zerbinetta, Susanna, Oscar, Lucia, Lulu, Giulia, Nannetta, Sophie, Elvira, Amina, and Violetta in La traviata.[citation needed]
The record label Columna Musica has recently released her CD collection of Galician songs Lúa descolorida,[2] and another one will be released shortly with Spanish repertoire.[needs update]
She has recently toured the main cities in Germany alongside the Chilean tenor Felipe Rojas,[3] accompanied by the orchestra Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, singing exclusively Spanish zarzuelas.
Also deserving of mention are successes like her Magda in Puccini's La Rondine, which she performed in Utrecht (Netherlands) with the TROS and maestro Gómez Martinez, and the performances at the Salzburg Festival in the role of Sandrina from La Finta Giardiniera, on the occasion of the Mozart year with staging by Doris Dörrie. Another accomplishment was the great concert of Spanish songs with the Hamburg Symphony, and the famous Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg.[citation needed]
Her most ambitious recording project is the bel canto compact disc of arias: Col sorriso d’innocenza, a collaboration with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Málaga which was published in December 2006 and has received excellent reviews by the international operatic press. In 2009 she performed the role of Rosario in the German premiere of the work Goyescas.[citation needed]
In the 2017/18 season she sang Liù from Turandot in China, and Violetta from La Traviata in Rovereto, Italy, and in many other Chinese cities.[citation needed]
In 2019, she continues to sing Violetta again in La Traviata, Leonora (Il Trovatore), Aida, Tosca, Turandot (leading role) and she had many performances as Madama Butterfly, in Morelia (Mexico), in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia (Spain) and in many other cities in Spain. In October 2020, she would sing Puccini's Turandot in many important cities in Mexico.[citation needed]
Laura Alonso Padin holds masterclasses in the vast majority of countries where she gives recitals.[citation needed]
Laura Alonso Padín currently lives in Berlin.[citation needed]
Col sorriso d'innocenza Belcanto Arias by Laura Alonso. Conductor: Alexander Livenson. Orquesta Filarmónica de Malaga. Composers: i.a. Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti. Label: Columna Musica, Spain.[7][8]
Lua Descolorida Music from Galicia with Laura Alonso, soprano. Juan Manuel Varela, piano. Songs by Osvaldo Golijov and Antón García Abril. Label: Columna Musica, Spain.
Antoloxía Vol. 1 A canción de Concerto: Antoloxía Vol. 1. Laura Alonso, soprano. Manuel Burgueras, piano. Cancións sobre textos literarios galegos. Edicións Xerais de Galicia.
Tutto Verdi from the Aalto Theatre in Essen. Charity event for the reconstruction of La Fenice in Venice.
Na Boca Das Camelias Laura Alonso, soprano. Juan Manuel Varela, piano. Music from Galicia by various composers.
Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Antonio Sartorio. Conductor: Attilio Cremonesi. Innsbrucker Barockfestspiele. Laura Alonso as Cleopatra. Label: ORF, Austria
Suau la teva veu. Laura Alonso, soprano. Works by Moisés Bertrán. Columna Música. Catalan songs.