The internationally renowned soprano Rosemary Joshua is the head of Dutch National Opera Studio, a two-year trainee programme for young artists that started in September 2018.
Rosemary Joshua’s career has spanned over three decades as a singer. She has appeared on all the main international stages in the world in roles such as Adele Die Fledermaus, (Metropolitan Opera) Bystrouška in The Cunning Little Vixen and Tytania A Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Scala, Milan), Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress (ROH Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, La Monnaie/de Munt, Brussels), Oscar in Un ballo in maschera (Dutch National Opera), Despina in Cosi fan tutte (ROH Covent Garden, LA Phil/ Dudamel), Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (Glyndebourne, Koeln, Bayerische Staatsoper, Welsh National Opera, ENO). Her extensive concert repertoire has been in collaboration with some of the greatest conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Mark Elder, Vladimir Jorowski, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Sir Collin Davis.
Rosemary Joshua made a name for herself above all as a specialist Handel interpreter from her debut in Aix-en-Provence in 1996 as Angelica in Orlando with William Christie (also in ROH Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper), Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare (TCE Paris, Florida Grand Opera), Poppea in Agrippina (Oper Koeln, La Monnaie/de Munt, TCE Paris), Ginevra in Ariodante (San Diego Opera, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Nitocris in Belshazzar (Aix-en-Provence Festival, Staatsoper Berlin, Innsbruck Festival), title role in Semele (Aix-en-Provence, Innsbruck, Koeln, ENO) and Partenope (ENO). She has an extensive discography in the baroque repertoire.
Rosemary has been teaching, coaching and advising young singers since 2015 and collaborates frequently with various Young artists programmes. She was appointed as head of the Dutch National Opera Studio in September 2018, helping to create a brand new, relevant international program supporting and representing some of the brightest talents of the new generation.
From 2021 Rosemary Joshua is featured on the successful Dutch TV program ARIA by Omroep Max. During the eight weekly episodes of this show, ten talented opera singers sing well-known arias, which are then judged by an expert jury led by Rosemary Joshua.
(photo: Jan Willem Kaldenbach)
