2025 Season Launch

Anna Elizabeth Cooper is a British mezzo-soprano and is currently an English National Opera Harewood Artist where she is performing Kate in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance and covering Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. 

Anna made her Glyndebourne Festival debut as Hippolyta in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. She also performed the role of Soeur Alice in Barrie Kosky’s 5* production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at Glyndebourne and the BBC Proms. She also covered Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte this summer.

Anna recently premiered a contemporary opera by Edward Lambert based on the Oscar Wilde play ‘The Duchess of Padua’ at The Space, London and across the UK. Previous to this Anna performed the role of Olga (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin) as an Opera Holland Park Young Artist. She also premiered the leading role Susanna (Joseph Howard’s Behind God’s Back) in a new commission at the Tête à Tête festival.  

Anna graduated from the Royal College of Music Opera Studio supported by the Stephen Catto Memorial fund, Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award, Mario Lanza Foundation, il Circolo trust, and Rosehill Theatre. Prior to this she studied at RCM and RNCM. At the RCM Opera Studio, Anna performed Concepcion (Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole), Lisetta (Haydn’s il mondo della luna), Dinah (Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti) and Cherubino (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro) which was directed by Sir Thomas Allen.

Alexandra Lowe is a graduate of the esteemed Jette Parker Artist Programme at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Alexandra's debuts ranged from Handel’s Dafne (Apollo e Dafne) under Christian Curnyn, Second Niece in Deborah Warner’s new production of Peter Grimes under Sir Mark Elder, Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) under Sir Antonio Pappano, culminating in her tour-de-force acclaimed Pierrot Lunaire. Since then, Lowe has made a series of distinguished debuts, as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) for both Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Kilden Opera, Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) for Opera North, Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) with the Mozartists, and staged performances of Mozart’s Requiem and Bologne’s L’amante anonyme once more for Glyndebourne.

On the concert platform her debut highlights have included Fifth Maid in Elektra with Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Sir Antonio Pappano, Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung with London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, Messiah with Hallé Orchestra under Sofi Jeannin, and further collaborations with Academy of Ancient Music/Laurence Cummings, Scottish Opera/Stuart Stratford, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra/ Marios Papadopoulos and Opera North Orchestra/Jonathan Bloxham.

A keen recitalist, Alexandra’s debut solo album - Le Voyage – centered around French Romantic song repertoire, was released last season on the Champs Hill label and nominated in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2024.

Sam Young studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was awarded the Chartered Surveyors Vocal Prize. In 2023, he was the recipient of the Young Artist Award in conjunction with the Strand International Festival of Song. He made his debut as an Emerging Artist with Longborough Festival Opera in 2024 and is currently a Young Artist with Opera Prelude for 2024/2025.

Sam has previously been a member of the chorus with companies including Glyndebourne Festival Opera/Tour and English National Opera. His upcoming roles include Marcello in La bohème (Devon Opera) and Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas (Longborough Festival Opera). Previous roles include Belcore/Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore (Longborough/Playground Opera); Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro (Hewlett Opera Company); Sergeant in La bohème (Longborough Festival Opera); Morales/Escamillo in Carmen Reimagined (Rogue Opera); the title role in Don Giovanni (Hurn Court Opera); Customs Officer cover in La bohème (Glyndebourne Tour);  Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (St Bartholomew's Orchestra; Flat Pack Music); La Comte Ludorf in La Nonne Sanglante (Gothic Opera, UK premiere, Off-West End Awards winner, Best Opera Production 2022); Papageno in The Magic Flute, Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Mikado in The Mikado (Opera Anywhere, UK tour); Moralès in Carmen (Oxford Opera); Leporello in Don Giovanni (Rogue Opera).

In 2019, Sam performed as part of Downton Abbey Live with the Chamber Orchestra of London at Highclere Castle, and again with the City Lights Symphony Orchestra at KKL Luzern, Switzerland. Other solo concert and oratorio credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem; Handel’s Messiah; Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Opera in the City Festival); Jesus in Bach’s St John’s Passion; Haman in Handel’s Esther.

David Eaton is a busy conductor and repetiteur and musical director of Charles Court Opera. He is a member of the repetiteur staff at Trinity College and a recipient of the John Hart Accompanists Prize from the Ferrier bursary. David performs across the country both as an accompanist and as part of the Eaton-Young Piano Duo who perform regularly at the Wigmore Hall.

He is an experienced opera coach and has worked for many major opera companies.