Lena Lootens
{{short description|Belgian soprano}}
Lena Lootens (born April 14, 1959, Ghent) is a Belgian soprano.{{cite book|author=British Broadcasting Corporation|title=BBC music magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IpsJAQAAMAAJ|access-date=12 July 2012|year=1998|publisher=BBC Magazines}}{{cite book|author=Schwann Publications|title=Schwann opus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=McA4AQAAIAAJ|access-date=12 July 2012|year=1998|publisher=Stereophile, Inc.|isbn=978-1-57598-046-1}}
Life and career
Lena Lootens was born in Ghent, Belgium on April 14, 1959. She trained as a classical soprano with Vera Rosza in London and later with Margaret Honig and Cristina Deutekom in Amsterdam. She began her career as a concert soprano; appearing on stages in The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and England; and her career has predominantly been focused on the oratorio repertoire and other classical sacred music. She has also appeared in operas with the Vlaamse Opera in both Ghent and Antwerp.{{cite book|page=228|title=Belgian Opera Houses and Singers|author= Richard T. Soper|year=1999|chapter=Lena Lootens|isbn=9780871525161|publisher=Reprint Company}}
Lootens has performed in Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea,{{cite book|last=McCants|first=Clyde T.|title=American Opera Singers And Their Recordings: Critical Commentaries And Discographies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQzItLSQWtUC&pg=PA142|access-date=12 July 2012|date=1 July 2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1952-4|page=142}} and with the Concerto Vocale,{{cite journal|author=New York Media, LLC|title=New York Magazine|website=Newyorkmetro.com|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_T-MCAAAAMBAJ|access-date=12 July 2012|date=24 July 1995|publisher=New York Media, LLC|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_T-MCAAAAMBAJ/page/n68 75]|issn=0028-7369}} amongst many others. On 23 June 1988 she performed two works by C. P. E. Bach, his Magnificat and the oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wüste, with soloists Nancy Argenta, Mechthild Georg, Howard Crook and Stephen Roberts under Frieder Bernius in the first concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey.
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Category:Dutch operatic sopranos
Category:20th-century Dutch women opera singers
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