Anna Reynolds (singer)

Anna Reynolds ( born June 5, 1930 in Canterbury, Kent, † February 24, 2014 in Peesten, market Kasendorf, Bavaria ) was a British opera and concert singer with the voice Alt.

Life

Anna Reynolds initially studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London. This was followed by a vocal studies in Italy. Their first professional performances they had in Italy as a soloist in operas and concerts. She sang in cities like Rome, Milan, Venice and Trieste.

Several times she sang at the Glyndebourne Festival. She sang there the 1962-1963 Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy. In 1965 she sang then there also the Annina in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. Self Glyndebourne followed in the years 1968-1970.

In the season 1966/1967 was Anna Reynolds member of the Covent Garden Opera in London. She sang the first section, the role of Adelaide in Arabella. 1968 committed Herbert von Karajan Anna Reynolds for his opera performances at the Salzburg Easter Festival, which were the works of Richard Wagner. In the same year her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Das Rheingold.

The artistic high point of her career then in 1970 with their commitment to the Bayreuth Festival. There she sang in the years 1970-1975 as Fricka in The Ring of the Nibelungen, also the Walt diamond and the 2nd Norn in Götterdämmerung. She also sang in Bayreuth in the years 1973-1975 the Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Under Karl Richter took in 1973 with Helen Donath, Stuart Burrows and Donald McIntyre and John Alldis Choir under the John Alldis and the London Philharmonic Orchestra Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorio The Messiah.

Anna Reynolds was estimated world as a concert singer, especially as an interpreter of the works of Gustav Mahler. She also worked as a singing teacher. Reynolds was married to the American operatic tenor Jean Cox.