Ella Taylor

Tell me when you get home
2022-02-06 19:45 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Purcell Room – Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Ella sings the world premiere of Alicia Jane Turner‘s piece Tell me when you get home with the London Sinfonietta.
‘Alicia Jane Turner’s Tell me when you get home is a theatrical and sensory piece for solo soprano and ensemble that explores gendered experiences of walking alone at night. The immersive staging, influenced by Turner’s background in sound and lighting design, incorporates elements of patriarchal representations of femininity in mythology and horror to take us on a subversive journey into our fear of the dark.’
Luke Lewis The Echoes Return Slow (London Sinfonietta commission, world premiere)
Alicia Jane Turner Tell me when you get home (London Sinfonietta commission, world premiere)
Ella Taylor soprano
Sian Edwards conductor
London Sinfonietta

Górecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
2022-08-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Bold Tendencies, 95a Rye Lane, Levels 7 - 10, London, SE15 4ST
Ella performs the soprano solo in Górecki’s powerful orchestral song cycle Symphony of Sorrowful Songs with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the brilliant Bold Tendencies in Peckham

Paradise Lost
2022-08-30 - 2022-09-04 | Shipwright, The Master Shipwright's House, Watergate Street, London, SE8 3JF
Ella sings the role of Satan in Bertie Baigent and Joseph Winters’ new adaptation of Milton’s epic, Paradise Lost.
Ella Taylor – Satan
Juliet Wallace – Eve
Oskar McCarthy – Adam/Moloch
Rozanna Madylus – Belial/Raphael
Stephen Fort – Beelzebub/Gabriel
Bertie Baigent – Conductor/Composer
Joseph Winters – Director/Librettist
Each performance begins at 20.30, with doors open from 18.00. The dates are: 30th, 31st August, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th September.
There is an interval.

Dido and Aeneas
2022-10-14 - 2022-11-05 | Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1ET, United Kingdom
Ella plays the roles of Belinda and Second Witch in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, as part of Deborah Warner’s inaugural season as Artistic Director at the Ustinov Studio in Bath.
Cast to be announced.

Monday – Saturday 7.30pm
Matinees Thursday & Saturday 2.30pm (not Sat 15 or Thurs 20 Oct)
Press Night Thursday 20 October 7pm
Tickets £36.50 / £24.50 discounts
A booking fee of £2.50 per ticket applies

The Armed Man and Mass in Time of War
2022-11-19 19:30 - 22:00 | York Minster, Minster Yard Deangate, York, YO1 7HH, United Kingdom
Ella performs the soprano solos in Jenkins’ The Armed Man and Haydn’s Missa in tempora belli with York Musical Society Choir and Orchestra conducted by David Pipe
Ella Taylor – soprano
Chloe Latchmore – mezzo-soprano
Greg Tassell – tenor
Thomas Humphreys – baritone

Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall
2022-12-14 14:00 - 17:00, 2022-12-14 19:00 - 22:00 | Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Ella sings the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall with the Philharmonia Chorus and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eduardo Strausser.
Ella Taylor – soprano
Angharad Lyddon – mezzo-soprano
Zwakele Tshabalala – tenor
William Thomas – bass

Messiah with Huddersfield Choral Society
2022-12-20 19:15 - 22:00, 2022-12-21 19:15 - 22:00 | Huddersfield Town Hall, Ramsden Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2TA, United Kingdom
Ella sings the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah with Huddersfield Choral Society and the Orchestra of Opera North conducted by Ellie Slorach.

Akhnaten
2023-03-11 19:30 - 22:30, 2023-03-18 19:30 - 22:30, 2023-03-23 19:30 - 22:30, 2023-03-24 19:30 - 22:30, 2023-03-29 19:30 - 22:30, 2023-03-30 19:30 - 22:30, 2023-04-01 18:30 - 21:30, 2023-04-05 19:30 - 22:30 | English National Opera, St Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom
Ella makes their debut with English National Opera playing Daughter 3 in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten.
Phelim McDermott’s Olivier Award-winning production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten returns to the ENO, following sell-out runs at the London Coliseum.
Akhnaten is a mesmerising work whose text draws on ancient hymns, prayers and inscriptions sung in their original Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian. The opera’s unique mood transports audiences to this ancient world through Glass’s music (conducted by the returning Karen Kamensek) that combines his characteristic minimalist voice with stylised movement and choreographed juggling to visualise the rhythms of his score.
A mesmerising spectacle, Akhnaten tells the story of one of the world’s most influential figures – the Pharaoh Akhnaten, the first Pharaoh to switch from worshipping a pantheon of gods to just one: the Sun.
Cast:

Anthony Roth Costanzo
Akhnaten

Chrystal E. Williams
Nefertiti

Haegee Lee
Queen Tye

Benson Wilson
Horemhab

Keel Watson
Aye

Paul Curievici
High Priest of Amon

Zachary James
Scribe

Ellie Neate
Daughter 1
Isabelle Peters
Daughter 2
Ella Taylor
Daughter 3
Felicity Buckland
Daughter 4

Sinead O’Kelly
Daughter 5

Lauren Young
Daughter 6
Creatives:

Karen Kamensek
Conductor

Phelim McDermott
Director

Tom Pye
Set Designer

Kevin Pollard
Costume Designer

Bruno Poet
Lighting Designer

Sean Gandini
Choreographer

Mahler 2
2023-03-19 19:00 - 21:30 | Sheffield City Hall, Barker's Pool, Sheffield, S1 4AW, United Kingdom
Ella sings the soprano solo in Mahler’s 2nd Symphony as part of the Classical Sheffield Festival.
Huge forces unite in the Steel City in March 2023 to adventure into the electrifying world of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony. A work that contemplates the meaning of life and death through a blaze of transcendence that will shake the roof of the Oval Hall, this symphony offers the ultimate concert experience.
Performed by over 300 Sheffield musicians, including two award-winning soloists, Anna Harvey and Ella Taylor, the event will be a unique Sheffield spectacle. For the first time in history the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallam Sinfonia, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, and Hallam Choral Society are combining forces for one night only.
Led by conductor George Morton, let us take you on a whirlwind adventure of music that could quite literally change your life.

Akhnaten (Relaxed Performance)
2023-04-04 14:30 - 17:30 | English National Opera, St Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom

Dona Nobis Pacem with the Britten Sinfonia
2023-05-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Brighton Dome Concert Hall, Church Street, Brighton, BN1 1UE, United Kingdom
Ella sings the soprano solo in Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Britten Sinfonia as part of the Brighton Festival.
‘Sussex folk inspired concert featuring music of Vaughan Williams’
Adam Hickox Conductor
Ella Taylor Soprano
Felix Kemp Baritone
Thomas Gould Solo Violin

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Frank Bridge There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
Joseph Phibbs Flame and Shadow – world premiere
Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem

Don Carlo
2023-06-30 17:30 - 21:40, 2023-07-03 18:00 - 22:10, 2023-07-06 18:00 - 22:10, 2023-07-09 15:30 - 19:40, 2023-07-12 18:00 - 22:10, 2023-07-15 18:00 - 22:10 | Royal Opera House, Bow Street, London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom
Ella makes their debut with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden singing Tebaldo in Verdi’s Don Carlo, conducted by Daniele Rustioni.
Cast:
DON CARLOS
Brian Jagde

ELIZABETH OF VALOIS
Lise Davidsen

RODRIGO, MARQUIS OF POSA
Luca Micheletti

PRINCESS EBOLI
Yulia Matochkina

KING PHILIP II
John Relyea

GRAND INQUISITOR
Taras Shtonda

MONK
Alexander Köpeczi

TEBALDO
Ella Taylor

COUNT OF LERMA
Michael Gibson

VOICE FROM HEAVEN
Sarah Dufresne

FLEMISH DEPUTIES
Josef Jeongmeen Ahn, Matthew Durkan, Felix Kemp, Dan D’Souza, Jihoon Kim, Simon Wallfisch

ORCHESTRA
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

CHORUS
Royal Opera Chorus

Creatives:
MUSIC
Giuseppe Verdi

LIBRETTO
Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle

DIRECTOR
Nicholas Hytner

DESIGNER
Bob Crowley

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Mark Henderson

MOVEMENT
Scarlett Mackmin

FIGHT DIRECTOR
Terry King

Classical Pride
2023-07-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Barbican, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom
In this special charity event, conductor Oliver Zeffman and the CBSO present the first Classical Pride concert given by a major orchestra in Europe.

Featuring the world-renowned City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, an LGTBQ+ community chorus and top international soloists, this concert – presented by the broadcaster and DJ Nick Grimshaw – will celebrate the profound contribution that the LGBTQ+ community makes to classical music.
Soloists Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy, Nicky Spence, Davóne Tines and Ella Taylor join the CBSO and Oliver Zeffman to explore music by LGBTQ+ composers, from Tchaikovsky to Poulenc and Bernstein, Caroline Shaw and a new commission from Julian Anderson. Celebrating these musicians not only for their artistic brilliance but also for their queerness, Classical Pride shows that LGBTQ+ people have always been at the heart of music at its highest level, and promises to be a thrilling evening of outstanding classical music by some of the world’s finest performers.

Programme

Leonard Bernstein Overture to Candide
Francis Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Julian Anderson Echoes (world premiere)
Caroline Shaw Is a Rose
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet

Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki
2023-09-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Wembley Arena, Arena Square, Engineers Way, Wembley, HA9 0AA
Ella will sing the soprano solos in this concert celebrating all things Studio Ghibli.
Acclaimed multiple award-winning composer, conductor and pianist Joe Hisaishi will be celebrating 35 years of Japanese animation film Studio Ghibli, Inc at London’s OVO Arena Wembley.
Studio Ghibli, Inc based in Tokyo, Japan is best known for its anime feature films including Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. Never seen before in the UK this unique concert experience will celebrate the timeless work between composer Joe Hisaishi and director Hayao Miyazaki who have worked together for over thirty years, including feature nine films.
This concert will include montages and music from some of the most popular Studio Ghibli movies and under the leadership of Maestro Hisaishi, the music will be performed by BBC Concert Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus.

Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki
2023-09-22 19:30 - 22:00 | Wembley Arena, Arena Square, Engineers Way, Wembley, HA9 0AA
Ella will sing the soprano solos in this concert celebrating all things Studio Ghibli.
Acclaimed multiple award-winning composer, conductor and pianist Joe Hisaishi will be celebrating 35 years of Japanese animation film Studio Ghibli, Inc at London’s OVO Arena Wembley.
Studio Ghibli, Inc based in Tokyo, Japan is best known for its anime feature films including Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. Never seen before in the UK this unique concert experience will celebrate the timeless work between composer Joe Hisaishi and director Hayao Miyazaki who have worked together for over thirty years, including feature nine films.
This concert will include montages and music from some of the most popular Studio Ghibli movies and under the leadership of Maestro Hisaishi, the music will be performed by BBC Concert Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus. It is definitely not an event to miss!

‘Rain in City and Country’ recital
2023-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Hinde Street Methodist Church, 19 Hinde Street, London, W1U 2QJ, United Kingdom
Ella performs with baritone James Atkinson and pianist Nigel Foster at the London Song Festival.
2023 is the bicentenary of the invention of the Mackintosh raincoat by the Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh. To mark this illustrious anniversary, the London Song Festival is presenting a programme of songs and readings on the subject of rain, with music by Clara and Robert Schumann, Schubert, Barber, Margaret Bonds, Finzi, Debussy, Brahms, Elizabeth Maconchy, Quilter and many more, readings about rain by some very unexpected people, and two premieres, by Noah Max and David Ward, of songs written specially for the London Song Festival.
