18 Facts About Felicity Lott

Felicity Lott played violin and began singing lessons at 12.

Felicity Lott is an alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, obtaining a BA in French and Latin in 1969.

Felicity Lott graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Principal's Prize.

Felicity Lott made her operatic debut at the City of London Festival in 1974 as Seleuce in Tolomeo by Handel.

Felicity Lott 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.

Felicity Lott has appeared in operettas, singing the title role in Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne, as well as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and the title roles in Offenbach's La belle Helene and La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein.

Felicity Lott has a special love for French "melodies", German "Lieder" and the English song repertoire, particularly the songs of Benjamin Britten.

Felicity Lott was a founding member of the Songmakers' Almanac.

Felicity Lott has performed duet recitals with mezzo-soprano Ann Murray, baritone Thomas Allen and Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager.

Felicity Lott is 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, Faure, Gounod, Hahn, Poulenc, and Schubert, often with Graham Johnson, and for Chandos Records, songs by Richard Strauss and Wolf, among others.

Felicity Lott is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians as well as Patron of the Southwell Music Festival.

Felicity Lott has received many honorary doctorates, including the universities of Oxford, London, Leicester, Sussex, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow and the Sorbonne in Paris.

Felicity Lott has been elected to the French Legion of Honour and made a DBE in 1996.

Felicity Lott sang at the wedding of Prince Andrew in 1986.

In 2003 Dame Felicity Lott was awarded the title of Bayerische Kammersangerin.

Felicity Lott is a vice-president of the British Youth Opera and The Bach Choir.

Felicity Lott is a Patron of the British Voice Association and has been a Patron of Bampton Classical Opera.