Lynne Dawson

Lynne Dawson ( born June 3, 1956 in York) is an English soprano.

Life

Before Lynne Dawson was a professional singer, she studied languages ​​and worked as a French translator. Still taught by Peter Pears, the soprano also recorded numerous CDs sang while studying first predominantly early music and quickly came into contact with John Eliot Gardiner, Roger Norrington and Christopher Hogwood, with whom they were not just concerts, but among other things, undertook by George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a total lie nearly 80 recordings to her before. Dawson constantly expanding their repertoire, they sang several Mozart roles, such as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio, the title role in Zaide or Pamina in The Magic Flute. At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, she appeared in What Next for Elliott Carter and she sang the Libera me from Verdi's Requiem at the funeral of Princess Diana Spencer. In recent years, Lynne Dawson employed more and more with the interpretation of songs from the classical, romantic and high romance. She also teaches in Barcelona and runs since September 2010, the vocal class at the Royal Northern College of Music. Lynne Dawson lives with her two children near York.