Rosalind Anne Plowright was born on 21 May 1949 and is an English opera singer who spent much of her career as a soprano but in 1999 changed to the mezzo-soprano range.
16 Facts About Rosalind Plowright
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Rosalind Plowright was born in Worksop and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and at the London Opera Centre.
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Rosalind Plowright sang Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro with the Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 1976 and 1977.
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Rosalind Plowright earned good notices in 1979 for her Fennimore in Frederick Delius's Fennimore and Gerda at London's Camden Festival.
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Rosalind Plowright then appeared with ENO in the roles of Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw, Desdemona in Otello, Elizabeth I in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Helene in Verdi's Les vepres siciliennes, Elisabeth de Valois in Don Carlos, and Tosca.
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Rosalind Plowright's recording of Elizabeth I in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, with Janet Baker as Mary, Queen of Scots, brought her wider recognition.
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In 1980, Rosalind Plowright sang Manon Lescaut at Torre del Lago, Aida and Ariadne in Frankfurt, Ariadne in Bern and Ortlinde at the Royal Opera House.
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Rosalind Plowright sang Cherubini's Medee at the Buxton Festival, Lyon, Lausanne, The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Athens.
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Rosalind Plowright performed Norma in Montpelier, Pittsburgh, Lyon, Santiago di Chile and Paris and in Oviedo and Bonn.
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Rosalind Plowright gave recitals with Geoffrey Parsons in over 20 international festivals.
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In 1999 Rosalind Plowright made her debut as a mezzo-soprano as Amneris in Aida with Scottish Opera.
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In 2016 Rosalind Plowright performed Klytamnestra in Keith Warner's new Elektra in Prague and later that year performed her first Old Baroness in Barber's Vanessa at the Wexford Festival.
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In 2018, Rosalind Plowright performed Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes in the Palau de les Arts, Valencia and made her Glyndebourne Festival debut as The Old Baroness in Vanessa in Keith Warner's new production.
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Rosalind Plowright was awarded an OBE in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to music.
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Rosalind Plowright won first prize in the 7th International Singing Competition, Sofia and a SWET award in 1979.
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Rosalind Plowright was awarded the Prix Fondation Fanny Heldy for her performance as Leonora in the 1984 recording of Verdi's Il trovatore with Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Giorgio Zancanaro, Yevgeny Nesterenko and the Choir and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Carlo Maria Giulini.