Lisa Opera Soprano

About Lisa Opera Soprano

Lyric Soprano Elizabeth "Lisa" Pow completed her undergraduate Music Degree at Chichester University, delivering a first class dissertative performance of Exoticism in French Romantic Opera and Chanson, before taking an undergraduate performance course during which she was inspired to develop a more hands-on approach to staging and performing opera. She completed her MMus in Performance at the London College of Music whilst continuing to work as a professional vocalist and vocal tutor in Hampshire and West Sussex. Elizabeth, alongside Adam Hoskins, founded City Wall Productions Ltd, whose re-imagining of Dido & Aeneas toured for four years, and Elizabeth, with City Wall Productions, was awarded the Dome Enterprise Business Centre Award. Elizabeth, during her time in Sussex also received first prize for the Clifford-Benson Award, 2010, for a recital of Chanson. She has also recently completed a short course at the National Opera Studio, London. Elizabeth is multi-disciplined, and trained classically as a ballerina and stage-actress, as well as a violinist and pianist.
Elizabeth has enjoyed a variety of roles at the Alexandra Theatre, including Susanna, (Le Nozze Di Figaro), Eurydice (Orpheé Aux Enfers), Lucy Lockett (The Beggar's Opera) and has toured around West Sussex and Hampshire appearing as Belinda/Sorceress (Dido & Aeneas) Coridon/Damon (Acis and Galatea) Venus (Venus and Adonis). She was deemed "The Highlight of The Festival" for her appearance as Marguerite (Faust) at the 2012 Annual New Park Cinema International Film Festival. She has also appeared as Zerlina (Don Giovanni) The Lover (Darling - One of us Whitechapel) Nikki Pignatelli (Sweet Charity) and Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). Elizabeth holds a position as Associate Lecturer at the University of Chichester where she enjoys stage directing and choral conducting alongside vocal coaching. As an involved director, she recently collaborated with Carl Davis on his Oratorio "The Last Train to Tomorrow" At Chichester Cathedral