Sarah Connolly

Sarah Connolly

Sarah Patricia Connolly CBE (born 13 June 1963,[1] County Durham) is an English mezzo-soprano.

Sarah Connolly was educated at Queen Margaret's School, York and then studied piano and singing at the Royal College of Music, of which she is now a Fellow. She then became a member of the BBC Singers for 5 years.[2][3]

Sarah Connolly's interest in opera and a full-time career in classical music began after she left the BBC Singers. She began her opera career in the role of Annina (Der Rosenkavalier) in 1994.[4] Her breakthrough role was as Xerxes in the 1998 English National Opera production of Handel's Serse (Xerxes), directed by Nicholas Hytner.In 2005 she sang Giulio Cesare by Handel for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The DVD of the production, directed by David McVicar won a Gramophone Award.[2][5] Her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden was in March 2009, as Dido in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.[6]

During the 2011 Gustav Mahler celebrations, Connolly performed all of his vocal works in the UK and abroad with The Philharmonia and Maazel, The LPO and Jurowski and Nezet Séguin, The LSO with Alsop, The OAE with Rattle and The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Chailly. Committed to promoting new music, her performances include Sir John Tavener's Tribute to Cavafy at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham and his film music to Children of Men. She also made the first commercial recording of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Twice Through the Heart with Marin Alsop and the London Philharmonic Orchestra having previously given the Belgian and Dutch premieres of the work with the Schoenberg Ensemble conducted by Oliver Knussen. She sang the role of Susie in the premiere production of Turnage's opera The Silver Tassie at English National Opera in 2000,[7] which was subsequently released in a 2002 commercial recording.[8]

Connolly's other commercial recordings include Schumann lieder with Eugene Asti for Chandos, "Songs of Love and Loss",[9] Korngold lieder with Iain Burnside, the Duruflé Requiem for Signum and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment[10] for which she raised the funds and selected the cast for the recording.[2]

In September 2009, Sarah Connolly made her first appearance as a guest soloist at The Last Night of the Proms, singing Rule, Britannia! while wearing a replica Royal Navy uniform of Lord Nelson.[11]

She lives with her husband, and their daughter Lily (born in 2003[4]) in Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds.[2][3]

Connolly was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.[12]

Contents

Operatic roles

Royal Opera House

Henry Purcell

Welsh National Opera

Richard Strauss

Opera North

Gaetano Donizetti
Vincenzo Bellini

English National Opera

Vincenzo Bellini
Hector Berlioz
Benjamin Britten
George Frideric Handel
Claudio Monteverdi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • La clemenza di Tito (Sesto) – 2006 Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Opera
Henry Purcell
Richard Strauss
Mark-Anthony Turnage
  • The Silver Tassie (Susie)

Scottish Opera

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

La Scala

Henry Purcell

La Monnaie

Henry Purcell

De Nederlandse Opera

Handel

Liceu

Monteverdi

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

Mozart

Roles in the USA

New York City Opera
Metropolitan Opera
San Francisco Opera

Recordings

Recordings include:

References

  1. ^ Tomorrow's birthdays, The Guardian, 12 June 2010
  2. ^ a b c d Erica Jeal (10-10-2008). "Who wears the trousers?". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/10/classicalmusicandopera. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  3. ^ a b Neil Fisher (19-05-2009). "Sarah Connolly: The diva who wears the trousers". The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article6313062.ece. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  4. ^ a b Ivan Hewett (21-09-2004). "Diva who dies for a living". Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/3624285/Diva-who-dies-for-a-living.html. Retrieved 2007-05-23. 
  5. ^ Hugh Canning (06-02-2005). "Sarah Connolly - stardom beckons". The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article510528.ece. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  6. ^ Erica Jeal (02-04-2009). "Dido and Aeneas; Acis and Galatea (Royal Opera House, London)". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/02/dido-aeneas-acis-galatea-review. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  7. ^ Michael Billington (18-02-2000). "Triumph from the trenches". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2000/feb/18/artsfeatures3. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  8. ^ Edward Greenfield (12-07-2002). "Turnage, The Silver Tassie". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2002/jul/12/classicalmusicandopera.artsfeatures1. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  9. ^ Tim Ashley (14-11-2008). "Classical review: Schumann: Frauenliebe Frauenliebe und -leben; Liederkreis Op 39, etc; Connolly/Asti". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/14/classicalmusicandopera. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  10. ^ Tim Ashley (13-02-2009). "Purcell: Dido & Aeneas; Connolly/ Bardon/ Finley/ OAE/ Devine/ Kenny". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/12/purcell. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  11. ^ Richard Morrison (14-09-2009). "Proms 73-76: Last Night of the Proms at the Albert Hall/ BBC TV/ Radio 3". The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/proms/article6832862.ece. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  12. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59282. p. 7. 31 December 2009.
  13. ^ Tim Ashley (2006-02-10). "Sarah Connolly - The Exquisite Hour". The Guardian. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1706342,00.html. Retrieved 2007-05-23. 

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