SARAH CONNOLLY

'Sarah Connolly' (born 1963 in County Durham) is a prominent British mezzo-soprano. She studied piano and singing at the Royal College of Music and continues her studies with Gerald Martin Moore.
She has sung at the Maggio Musicale, Florence, the Paris Opera and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Munich Opera Festival, and Carnegie Hall.
When not performing, Connolly lives in the Cotswolds with her husband and daughter.

Contents

Operatic rôles

Rôles in the USA

Concert performances

Recordings

References

External links

Operatic rôles

===English National Opera===
;Vincenzo Bellini

★ ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' (Romeo)
;Hector Berlioz

★ ''Les Troyens'' (Dido)
;Benjamin Britten

★ ''The Rape of Lucretia'' (Lucretia)
;George Frideric Handel

★ ''Alcina'' (Ruggiero)

★ '' Agrippina'' (Agrippina)^[1]

★ ''Ariodante'' (Ariodante)

★ ''Semele'' (Ino)

★ ''Xerxes'' (Xerxes)
;Claudio Monteverdi

★ ''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' (Empress Ottavia)
;Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

★ ''La clemenza di Tito'' (Sesto) – 2006 Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Opera^[2][3]
;Henry Purcell

★ ''Dido and Aeneas'' (Dido)
;Mark-Anthony Turnage

★ ''The Silver Tassie'' (Susie)
=== Scottish Opera===

★ Richard Strauss: ''Der Rosenkavalier'' (Octavian)
=== Glyndebourne Festival Opera===

★ George Frideric Handel: ''Giulio Cesare'' (Giulio Cesare)^[4]

★ Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion
=== La Scala===
;Henry Purcell

★ ''Dido and Aeneas'' (Dido)

Rôles in the USA

;New York City Opera

★ Vincenzo Bellini: ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' (Romeo)

★ George Frideric Handel: ''Ariodante'' (Ariodante)

★ George Frideric Handel: ''Xerxes'' (Xerxes)

★ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ''La clemenza di Tito'' (Sesto)
;Metropolitan Opera

★ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ''La clemenza di Tito'' (Annio)
;San Francisco Opera

★ George Frideric Handel: ''Semele'' (Ino and Juno)

Concert performances

Amongst many concert performances, Connolly has premièred the following:

★ Jonathan Harvey: ''Songs of Li Po''

★ John Tavener: ''Tribute to Cavafy''

★ Mark-Anthony Turnage: ''Twice Through the Heart''

Recordings

Recordings include:

★ Frank Bridge ''Orchestral Songs'' Chandos, 2005

★ Edward Elgar: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Simon Wright ''The Music Makers'' / ''Sea Pictures'' Naxos 8.557710

★ Edward Elgar: ''The Very Best of Elgar'' 8.552133-34

★ George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne, 2005) OA0950D

★ George Frideric Handel: ''Heroes and Heroines'' – The Sixteen / Harry Christophers, Coro

★ George Frideric Handel: Solomon (Solomon) Harmonia Mundi (2007 release)

★ Gustav Mahler ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn'' – OCE / Herreweghe Harmonia Mundi, 2006

★ Felix Mendelssohn: ''Songs and Duets Vol. 3'' Hyperion, 2004

★ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – ''Mass in C Minor'' and Haydn – ''Scena di Bernice'' – Gabrieli Consort / McCreesh DG, 2006

★ Arnold Schoenberg: ''BBC Voices - Blood Red Carnations: Songs by Arnold Schoenberg'' Black Box, 2002

★ John Tavener: ''Children of Men''

★ ''The Exquisite Hour – Recital Disc: Songs by Brahms, Britten, Hahn, Haydn'' (Eugene Asti) Signum Classics, 2006^[5]

References

1. English National Opera Announces the 2006/07 Sky & Artsworld Season
2. 2006 Laurence Olivier Award nominations announced
3. Mozart, ''La Clemenza di Tito'' English National Opera
4. PROM 52: Handel, ‘Julius Caesar’
5. Sarah Connolly - The Exquisite Hour

External links

★ Sarah Connolly (Naxos biography)

★ Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano

★ Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-soprano)

★ Sarah Connolly

★ Sarah Connolly

★ Sarah Connolly (IMDb)

★ BBC Radio 4 ''Woman's Hour'' - Sarah Connolly (link to radio interview RAM file)

★ Diva who dies for a living