Felicity Lott

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FRCM
Born
Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott

(1947-05-08) 8 May 1947 (age 76)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Alma materRoyal Academy of Music
OccupationSoprano
SpouseGabriel Woolf
ChildrenEmily (b. 1984)

Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott,

FRCM[1][2] (born 8 May 1947[3]) is an English soprano
.

Education

Lott was born in

alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, obtaining a BA in French and Latin in 1969.[4] During her year in France as part of her four-year degree course, from 1967–68 she took singing lessons at the conservatory in Grenoble. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Music
, winning the Principal's Prize.

Career

She made her operatic debut at the City of London Festival in 1974 as Seleuce in

Glyndebourne Festival. In 1977, she recorded the Charpentier Te Deum H.146 with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, conducted by Philip Ledger
, for EMI Records.

She has been associated with the works of Richard Strauss including his lieder, the Four Last Songs and the roles of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and the Countess in Capriccio. She has also appeared in operettas, singing the title role in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne, as well as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and the title roles in Offenbach's La belle Hélène and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein.[citation needed]

She has a special love for French "mélodies", German "

Thomas Allen and Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager. She is also featured as a soloist in a recording of the Mozart Requiem in D Minor with the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra. For Hyperion Records, Lott has recorded many songs, by Chabrier, Fauré, Gounod, Hahn, Poulenc, and Schubert, often with Graham Johnson, and for Chandos Records, songs by Richard Strauss and Wolf
, among others.

Lott is a member of the

Incorporated Society of Musicians[6][failed verification] as well as Patron of the Southwell Music Festival.[7]

Honours and awards

Lott has received many honorary doctorates, including the universities of Oxford, London, Leicester, Sussex, the

Kammersängerin. She is a vice-president of British Youth Opera and The Bach Choir.[9]

In autumn 2009 it was announced that she had been appointed a Visiting Professor by Royal Holloway[10] having previously been appointed an Honorary Fellow of the college.[11]

On 9 February 2010, she was presented with The

KG, at the launch of the hall's 110th anniversary programme. The medal was introduced in 2006 and is awarded to internationally important artistic figures in recognition of their significant contribution to Wigmore Hall. The citation praised her "unique contribution to Wigmore Hall and to the advancement of the song recital as a concert-going experience throughout the world." It was 35 years since she first performed there, in 1975.[12]

She is a Patron of the British Voice Association[13] and has been a Patron of Bampton Classical Opera.

Personal life

She is married to the actor Gabriel Woolf; they have a daughter, Emily (b. 1984).

Videography

Complete operas include Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena), Offenbach: La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (La Grande Duchesse), Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), and Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (Anne Trulove).

  • Glyndebourne Festival Opera: a Gala Evening
     (1992), Arthaus Musik DVD, 100–432, 2004

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Royal Academy of Music website, accessed 20 January 2013".
  2. ^ Paul Need Kate Flowers. "Dame Felicity Lott". Co-opera-co.org. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  3. ^ "Birthdays today". The Telegraph. 8 May 2013. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2014. Dame Felicity Lott, soprano, 66
  4. ^ a b Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL). "Dame Felicity Lott". RHUL. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  5. ^ See for example the image of the programme of her first recital at Wigmore Hall on this page
  6. ^ "Homepage". Incorporated Society of Musicians.
  7. ^ "Dame Felicity Lott DBE". Southwell Music Festival. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Felicity Lott - Biography". www.felicitylott.de. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  9. ^ "About The Bach Choir". The Bach Choir. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  10. ^ Royal Holloway, London (November 2009). "Higher" (Alumni Magazine). Egham, Surrey: Royal Holloway College Alumni Association.
  11. ^ "Honorary Fellows and Graduates". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  12. ^ "News | Wigmore Hall: Classical Chamber Music & Song Concerts ::". Wigmore Hall. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  13. ^ David Siddall Multimedia on behalf of The British Voice Association – v4 June 2009. "The Voice for Voice". British Voice Association. Retrieved 3 November 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

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