Event overview
Dame Felicity Lott will give a masterclass to students on the Music pathway, but all are welcome to observe
Students taking part in the masterclass are Cassie Bosdet (Vaughan Williams - Silent Noon); Emily Jones (Schubert - An den Mond); Ploen Sopitpongstorn (Duparc - L'invitation au voyage); Katarina Melling (Mozart - 'Vado ma dove' OR Fauré 'Fleur Jetée'); Natasha Elliott (Mahler - 'Wenn dein Mütterlein', from Kindertotenlieder) and Natalie Millet (Johann Strauss II - Mein Herr Marquis, from Die Fledermaus)
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In 1975 Ms Lott made her debut at the English National Opera as Pamina in Mozart's 'Magic Flute', in 1976 she took part in the first performance of Henze's opera 'We Come To The River' at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. In that year also began her long relationship with Glyndebourne, with the role of the Countess in 'Capriccio' on the Tour and in 1977 she appeared at the Festival for the first time, as Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's 'The Rake's Progress'. Since then, Felicity has appeared at all the great opera houses of the world : Vienna, Milan, Paris, Brussels, Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, New York and Chicago. Her many roles include the Marschallin (Rosenkavalier / Strauss), Countess Madeleine (Capriccio / Strauss), Arabella (Strauss), Christine (Intermezzo / Strauss) Countess Almaviva (Le Nozze Di Figaro / Mozart), Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutte / Mozart), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni / Mozart), Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes / Britten), The Governess (The Turn Of The Screw / Britten), Lady Billows (Albert Herring / Britten), Louise (Charpentier), Blanche (Les Dialogues des Carmelites / Poulenc) and Elle (La Voix Humaine / Poulenc). Conductors she has worked with on the opera stage include Andrew Davis, Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Jurowski, Carlos Kleiber, Antonio Pappano and Simon Rattle.
More recently, Felicity has shown her affection for operetta. In 1993 she sang the title role in Lehar's Merry Widow with Glyndebourne Festival Opera on a recording for EMI, but she had sung the role on stage in Nancy as well as in Paris in the 1980's. In 1999 she appeared as Rosalinde in Johann Strauss' Fledermaus in Chicago. Her performance as Hélène in Offenbach's La Belle Hélène at the Chatelet in Paris, in a production directed by Laurent Pelly and conducted by Marc Minkowski brought her a great success in 2000. In the 2004-2005 season Felicity appeared with the same team as Offenbach's La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein.
Felicity is well known as a concert artist, working with all the great conductors and orchestras. She is an experienced recitalist after many years of singing with Graham Johnson, whom she met when they were students at the Royal Academy of Music. Her repertoire includes songs by Strauss, Schubert, Schumann, Wolf and Brahms as well as the masters of French Mélodies. As might be expected, Felicity is also very fond of English songs, particularly those of Benjamin Britten and William Walton. She is a founder member of Graham Johnson’s Songmakers’ Almanac.
Felicity has received many honorary doctorates, including those from the Universities of Oxford, London, Leicester, Sussex, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Glasgow and the Sorbonne in Paris. By the French Government she was awarded the titles Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and Chevalier dans la Legion d'Honneur in 2001. In 1990 Felicity was made a CBE. In 1996 she was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire. In 2003 Felicity was awarded the title of Bayerische Kammersängerin and in 2010 she was awarded the Wigmore Hall Medal.
Dates & times
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| 26 Jan 2015 | 4:00pm - 7:30pm |
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