Ann Murray
Ann Murray DBE ( born August 27, 1949 in Dublin) is an Irish singer (mezzo- soprano).
Life and work
Murray studied singing with Frederic Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music.
In 1974 she made her debut in the title role of Gluck's Alceste and has since appeared on almost all the major opera houses and major concert halls. Particularly connected it is the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Salzburg Festival, where she sang important roles in numerous operas and concerts 1981-2006. They also appeared at the Met and the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan, in the Welsh National Opera and the Nederlandse Opera, in Hamburg, Dresden, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Cologne and Zurich. Were particularly appreciated Murray's Handel, Mozart and Strauss interpretations.
Murray sang the title role in Xerxes and Ariodante and embodied starring roles in Alcina, Rinaldo and Giulio Cesare. She was Xipharse in Mitridate, re di Ponto, Dorabella and Despina, Donna Elvira, Cherubino and Figaro Countess, Sesto Titus and Idamantes in Idomeneo. Her famous Strauss roles include the Octavian and the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos.
Their versatility presented Ann Murray in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Daughter of the Regiment, as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, and as Charlotte in Massenet's Werther, in Ravel's L' Enfant et les Sortilèges and Britten's The Turn of the Screw, as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, further in Moise in Egito, La Cenerentola and Wagner's Götterdämmerung, as well as in Purcell's Dido proof.
The Irish is a popular song singer and was repeatedly invited by the Salzburg Festival, is in Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Dresden, Zurich, Frankfurt, Madrid, London, Dublin, occurred Festival at the Aldeburgh and at the Edinburgh, Munich and Vienna, both in Konzerthaus, and Musikverein.
Ann Murray sang under the direction of such famous conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Riccardo Chailly, Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Rafael Kubelik, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Georg Solti and Wolfgang Sawallisch. The Proms, she performed several times, both in the First Night, as well as the legendary Last Night of the Proms. Ann Murray has a number of recordings recorded, including the legendary Hyperion Schubert Edition. In September 2010, it was entrusted to a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Murray was with the late tenor Philip Langridge (1939-2010) married and has one son, Jonathan.