Isabella was born in Chelmsford, Essex. She was a choral scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and currently studies with Ashley Stafford.
A member of the Chelmsford Cathedral Consort from 2004-2006, Isabella was a national finalist in the Association of English Singers and Speakers Junior English Song Competition in 2004. Her roles include Diana, Offenbach’s 'Orpheus in the Underworld' (2004); Dido, Purcell’s 'Dido and Aeneas '(2005); Johanna, Sondheim’s 'Sweeney Todd' (Fitztheatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007), Amastris, Handel’s 'Xerxes' (Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera, 2007-8), Amor, Gluck’s 'Orfeo' (Cambridge University Baroque Ensemble, 2008), and Gossip, Britten’s 'Noyes Fludde' (Cambridge University Opera Society, 2009)., Countess, Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' (Cambridge University Opera Society, 2011), Lady Billows, Britten's 'Albert Herring' (Shadwell Opera 2011). She also created the role of Narcissa in a new adaptation of Samuel Arnold’s 'Inkle and Yarico', in its first staging for almost 200 years (Opera East Productions 2007-8).
Isabella is a regular soloist and recitalist in Cambridge and the southeast. Her oratorio repertoire include Pergolesi’s 'Stabat Mater', Vivaldi’s 'Gloria', Haydn’s 'The Creation' and 'Little Organ Mass', Mozart’s 'Requiem', Beethoven’s 'Mass in C', Schubert’s 'Mass in G', Mendelssohn’s 'Elijah', and Elizabeth Lutyens’ 'O saisons, o châteaux'. Recent recitals include a Purcell programme for the Fitzwilliam College Purcell Festival, a programme of English song for the Magdalene Landscape Festival at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and a programme of operatic arias for the Tom Acton Memorial Trust. Isabella will be singing the role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance' at the Minack Theatre in September 2011, to be broadcast on Sky Television.
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'radiant and crystal clear' (Braintree and Witham Times)
Isabella Gage, meanwhile, opened the 'Second Part' with... a rendition of the demanding aria 'Hear ye Israel', which was sensitively and intelligently phrased, and in which the top notes soared out beautifully to fill the whole chapel.' (The Cambridge Tab)
'...Isabella Gage used her voice to good effect and produced some rousing embellishments'
(Braintree and Witham Times)
'Portraying the foreign princess Amastris in(transparent) disguise was Isabella Gage, who developed into a formidable personality' (Robert Johnson, Eastern Early Music Forum)
Coming soon. Isabella will be doing a new recording at the end of March.
