| Biography | Alison Hagley (born May 9, 1961 in London) is a British opera singer.
The soprano studied from 1979-1984 at the Guildhall School of Music, and in 1987 she studied at the National Opera Studio in London. Her stage debut was in 1985 in Handel's opera "Rodelinda" at the Aldeburgh Festival. In addition, she was in Handel's Flavio that same year, Re de 'Langobardi Batignano in 1986 at the festival at Camden, and in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera as well as Clorinda in Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. Crucial to the course of her career was the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where she stayed faithfully for many years. She performed with Glyndenbourne for the first time in 1988 when she starred in the opera L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. She returned as Papagena, Nanetta, Susanna and Zerlina and also joined the Glyndebourne Touring Opera as Varvara and Despina. In 1986, she made ??her debut as a first Flower girl in Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and was there to perform in Peter Grimes and Falstaff. The star role for the English soprano is that of Susanna in Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro", which she sang in Paris, London, Munich, Toronto, Glyndebourne, Ludwigsburg and Venice, which was documented on CD and DVD. The two Le Nozze di Figaro DVDs are the 1993 production at the Théâtre du Chatelet (in which Welsh bass-bariton Bryn Terfel starred as Figaro)and the 1994 Glyndenbourne production with Renee Fleming. |