Alison Kettlewell graduated in drama before studying singing at the Royal Northern and Royal College of Music (Opera Course). She was a winner of the AsLiCo Young European Opera Singers’ Competition and a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards.

Alison Kettlewell’s roles include Charlotte Werther, Suzuki Madama Butterfly, Dorabella Cosi fan tutte and The Secretary The Consul for Opera Holland Park; Kate Pinkerton Madama Butterfly and Mercedes Carmen for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall; Donna Elvira Don Giovanni in Como, Pisa and Lucca, Diamantina L’Isola di Merlino at Cremona, Mantova and Brescia, Dorisbe Gustavo il re di Svezia (Galuppi) at the Montepulciano Festival, Diana La Calisto Batignano Festival; Ramise Arminio (Handel) London Handel Festival, Lucilla La scala di seta in the Wexford Festival; Delilah Samson and Delilah at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea; Mother in world premiere of The Juniper Tree by Roderick Watkins (Almeida Opera and Munich Biennale) and Servant Ion by Param Vir for Opera du Rhin and Music Theatre Wales in Strasbourg, Berlin and at The Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Giraffe in ENO Baylis’s Early Earth Operas.

Alison Kettlewell’s repertoire also includes Romeo I Capuleti e i Montecchi; Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro; Donna Elvira Don Giovanni and Bessie in Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel.

Alison Kettlewell’s concert engagements range from the Bach Passions to Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and the Verdi Requiem. She has performed at such venues as The Royal Albert Hall, Symphony Hall, Birmingham and London’s Barbican. She has sung with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia (as Mary in Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ), London Mozart Players, the Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square, and in a live broadcast on Radio 3’s ”In Tune”.

She sang Dangeville Adriana Lecouvreur with Chelsea Opera Group and most recently covered the role of Judith Bluebeard’s Castle for English National Opera.

Future engagements include the role of Fricka Die Walküre at Longborough Festival.