Robyn Allegra Parton
Soprano
Robyn Allegra Parton made her operatic debut at the Royal Opera House as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro in 2015. She has since returned to the Royal Opera, and performed throughout Europe, including at Teatro di San Carlo Naples, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra National du Rhin, Folkoperan Stockholm, Glyndebourne Festival, Longborough Festival, Theater für Niedersachsen, the Istanbul Music Festival, and the Innsbruck Festival for Early Music. For the 2022-2024 seasons, Robyn joins the solo-ensemble of Theater Münster in Germany.
2024/2025 brings concert performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, as well as role debuts as Musetta, Vixen, and Isifile in Cavalli’s Giasone, and Micaela in a revival of Carmen, all for Theater Münster. In October 2024, Robyn will make her house debut at English National Opera with the role of Gilda in Rigoletto.
Career Highlights
Her roles include Violetta, Gilda, Micaëla, Adina, Donna Anna, Konstanze, Königin der Nacht, Zerbinetta, Adele, Morgana, Medea (Pacini), Amalia (I Briganti – Mercadante), Thamar (Leben des Orest – Krenek), and Clelia (Octavia – Keiser), a role awarded by the Cesti International Vocal Competition. In the 2023/2024 season, at Theater Münster Robyn will sing Astarte (Schmied von Gent –Schreker), Gilda, Micaëla, and Amélite (Zoroastre – Rameau).
For the Royal Opera, Robyn will cover Gilda in Rigoletto in London in Autumn of 2023 and in Japan on tour in June 2024. Robyn sings Servilia in Gluck’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth for the Gluck Festspiele 2024.
Contemporary roles include the title role in Coraline by Mark-Anthony Turnage for Royal Opera: Linbury and Folkoperan Stockholm for which she was awarded the Friends of Folkoperan Stockholm’s 2021 Soloist Award, Agnes in Nothing by David Bruce for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Narrator in The Sea-Crossed Fisherman by Michael Ellison for the Istanbul Music Festival, Jen in Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis at the Opèra National du Rhin and Philharmonie de Paris, Peg in Matt Roger’s The Virtue of Things for Royal Opera: Linbury, Covent Garden, Victoria in Jules Maxwell’s The Lost Thing for Royal Opera: Linbury, Covent Garden, and a vocal ensemble role in Heart Chamber by Chaya Czernowin for Deutsche Oper Berlin. At Theater Münster, Robyn created the role of Rita in Great Open Eyes by composer Manuel Zwerger, based on Ibsen’s play Little Eyolf.
As a concert artist Robyn has performed with ensembles including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Baroque Soloists, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonie and the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra.
Robyn’s debut solo album of late-romantic Viennese songs: Burnished Gold, recorded with pianist Simon Lepper for Orchid Classics, debuted at No. 9 in the UK Official Specialist Classical Chart in June 2023. She has also recorded Charpentier’s Caecilia Virgo et Martyr for Novum, songs by Stephen Dodgson for Toccata Classics, and Alice and Lucy in Margaret Catchpole by Stephen Dodgson for Naxos.
Last updated: 24th July 2024
