What people say...
The large-scale movements also featured excellent soprano soloist Elizabeth Traill.
Oxford Times (Giles Woodforde),
Britten War Requiem, Oxford Harmonic Society. November 2008
Mit einer Stimme voller Leuchtkraft betörte auch die Sopranistin Elizabeth Traill.
Bonn General-Anzeiger newspaper, Artikel vom 29.11.2008
Britten War Requiem, Oxford Harmonic Society, 22nd Noevember 2008
Elizabeth Traill displayed a soprano of substance and solid technique, and she vividly displayed the animosity of the Queen of the Gypsies towards the heroine.
OPERA (Margaret Davies)
The Bohemian Girl, Opera South. February 2008
The revelation of the evening was Elizabeth Traill, as Fairy God-mother. Massenet gave her a Queen of Night take-off, and she encompassed it triumphantly, with colour and style as well as flickering accuracy in the coloratura stratosphere.
Raymond Monelle, OPERA
Cendrillon (Massenet), Festival Theatre Edinburgh, RSAMD.
The coloratura role of fairy was sung by soprano Elizabeth Traill; she has a strong voice that effortlessly handled the considerable demands of Massenet's score.
Neil Jones, OPERA NOW
Cendrillon (Massenet), Festival Theatre Edinburgh, RSAMD.
Soprano soloist, Elizabeth Traill, was simply outstanding. Impeccably accurate, her voice soared effortlessly above the choral and orchestral textures. Her Lacrymosa was almost unbearably moving.
WESTMORLAND GAZETTE
Britten War Requiem
Cumbria Choral Initiative, Kendal
Alexander Oliver, Elizabeth is a young artist of tremendous promise. She possesses a dramatic coloratura soprano voice of exceptional potential. The voice has a thrilling access of power and she uses it with great dramatic thrust and considerable intelligence.
Artistic Leader, Der Niewe Opera Academie, Amsterdam.
biography
Elizabeth Traill read Music at the University of Durham before studying vocal performance within English National Opera’s Baylis Programme. A recent graduate of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, she was generously supported by a number of scholarships including the RSAMD Trust Fund, the Music Sound Foundation Award and a Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship. She is currently a Royal Philharmonic Society designated Young Artist and recent winner of the Susan Chilcott Scholarship. Other competition successes include First Prize in the Hampshire Singer of the Year Competition 2005, Second Prize in the intercollegiate Clonter Opera Competition 2006 and Semi Finalist in the 2007 Mozart Singing Competition.
Operatic roles include Adele Die Fledermaus (cover) for Scottish Opera, Königin der Nacht Die Zauberflöte for The Opera Project and Dartington Festival Opera, Queen of the Gypsies The Bohemian Girl for Opera South, Le Fée Cendrillon in a collaboration between the RSAMD, St Petersburg State Conservatoire and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, Flight Controller Flight (Jonathan Dove), Le Feu and Le Rossignol L’enfant et les sortileges (cover), Damon Acis and Galatea (cover) all for the RSAMD. Also the roles of Adele Die Fledermaus/ Gilda Rigoletto (in excerpt) for Clonter Opera.
On the concert platform recent engagements have included Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, a recital in the Winchester Festival and performances of the Britten War Requiem, Orff Carmina Burana, Mozart Mass in C Minor, Mozart Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento and Rossini Petit Messe Solennelle.