Soprano Louise Alder became one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed young singers on the operatic scene in the mid-2010s. In 2017, she won the Audience Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Among Alder's repertory roles was that of Juliette Vermont in Lehár's Der Graf von Luxemburg; she appeared on a recording of that operetta in 2017, and her debut solo recital, a collection of Strauss songs, was well-timed to take advantage of her success in Cardiff. In 2020, she released the album Lines Written During a Sleepless Night: The Russian Connection. Alder released the French song recital Chère Nuit in 2021. In 2024, she made her first foray into early music, singing the lead role on a recording of Handel's oratorio Theodora, HWV 60, with the ensemble Arcangelo and its conductor, Jonathan Cohen.