Rosie Aldridge

Her career includes regular appearances with leading opera houses, orchestras and conductors around the world.
Rosie’s appearances in the 2025/26 season include: her debut at the Opernhaus Zürich singing the dual role of The Witch and The Mother in a new production of Hänsel und Gretel; she will return to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein as The Kabanicha in a new production of Katya Kabanova  directed by Tatjana Gürbaca; to English National Opera making her role debut as The Widow Begbick in a new production of The Rise and Fall of the City of the Mahagonny; to the Berlin Staatsoper making her role debut as Mrs Grose in Claus Guth’s production of Turn of the Screw;  and to The Royal Opera House as Marcellina in a revival of Sir David McVicar’s production of Le nozze di Figaro. In concert Rosie will return to Scottish Opera making her role debut as Brangäne in concert performances of Tristan und Isolde and she will make her debut at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, as Mrs Sedley in a concert performance of Peter Grimes with the Dutch Radio Orchestra.
In the 2024/25 Season, Rosie made her role debut as Kundry in Calixto Bieito’s production of Parsifal conducted by Cornelius Meister at the Staatsoper Stuttgart; she also made her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Gertrude Hänsel und Gretel ; and at the National Theatre, Prague as The Kostelnička in a new production of Jenufa. She returned to the Komische Oper, making her role debut as Mrs Lovett in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Sweeney Todd conducted by James Gaffigan; to the Opéra National de Lorraine making her role debut as Judith Bluebeard’s Castle and Clementia Sancta Susanna; and at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where she created the role of Else in the World Premiere of Festen – by Mark-Anthony Turnage – directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Edward Gardner.
In recent seasons, Rosie made her house and role debut at the Berlin Staatsoper as the Kostelnička Jenůfa,  a role she also performed to great acclaim at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in a new production directed by Tatjana Gürbaca; elsewhere Rosie returned to The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as The Witch Hänsel und Gretel and she made her debuts at the Staatsoper Hamburg as Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes and at the Grange Festival as Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress.
Rosie recently returned to the Glyndebourne Festival as Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress; Hippolyta A Midsummer Night’s Dream and as Marcellina Le nozze di Figaro. She also returned to the Royal Opera as Mrs Sedley in Deborah Warner’s new production of Peter Grimes conducted by Sir Mark Elder and as Margret in a new production of Wozzeck  conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. Rosie made her debuts at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona as The Kabanicha Katya Kabanova; at Staatsoper Stuttgart as The Witch in a new production of Hänsel und Gretel;  at the Canadian Opera Company as Mary Der Fliegende Holländer; and at the Opéra national de Paris as Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes, a role she debuted at the Teatro Real, Madrid in 2021.
She joined the Ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper in 2016, remaining for two seasons where her appearances included: Annina Der Rosenkavalier; Aksinya  Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk; Gertrude Roméo et Juliette; Teresa La Sonnambula; Madame Larina Eugene Onegin; Marthe Faust; Roßweiße Die Walküre and Annina La Traviata in a Gala Performance celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Placido Domingo.
Rosie made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Praskowja Osipovna, Bubliki, & Social Commentator The Nose directed by Barrie Kosky in 2016, returning as Aksinya Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano; as the Beggar Woman and Russian Nanny in Sir David McVicar’s new production of Death in Venice and in the World Premiere of The Monstrous Child  as the Goddess Angrboda; at the Komische Oper, Berlin she made her debut as Praskowja Osipovna, Bubliki, and Social Commentator The Nose; at the Opéra national de Lorraine as Nellie Dean in Wuthering Heights and at English National Opera she appeared as Dritte Dame Die Zauberflöte; Gertud Hänsel und Gretel and Aksinya  bdirected by Dmitri Tcherniakov.
On the concert platform her engagements have included Vaughan-Williams Five Tudor Portraits with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and John Wilson; a concert of Baroque arias with the Academia Montis Regalis at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival; Elgar  Dream of Gerontius  with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall; Verdi Requiem with The Hallé and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and David Parry at the Norwich Festival. Further appearances include Elgar Sea Pictures with Martin Andre; Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Sir Thomas Allen; Mozart Requiem  at the Royal Festival Hall with the English Chamber Orchestra;  Dvořák Stabat Mater at the Cadogan Hall, and the Christmas Oratorio at St John’s Smith Square.