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Amanda
Roocroft
Soprano
c/o
Ingpen & Williams Ltd
020
8874 3222
Amanda Roocroft has secured an international reputation as one of
Britain's most exciting singers, in opera, concert, and in recital.
She graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music and studies
with Barbara Robotham.
In
concert she has appeared with leading orchestras throughout Europe
and North America with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin
Mehta, Mariss Jansons, Ivor Bolton, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (with
whom she has also sung and recorded Fiordiligi on compact disc and
video with Deutsche Grammophon Archiv), Daniele Gatti, Sir Neville
Marriner, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Bernard Haitink
(with whom she has recorded Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony).
Highlights
of recent seasons include her New York Philharmonic debut, regular
appearances at the BBC Proms in London, and at the Edinburgh International
Festival, a European tour with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester,
a tour of Japan (Countess/Le Nozze di Figaro and Beethoven 9) with
the Bayerische Staatsoper and Zubin Mehta and the title role in
Jenufa in Berlin.
Recital
engagements have included London’s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna, New York’s Lincoln Center,
La Monnaie in Brussels, as well as appearances in Munich, Paris
and Lisbon.
Amanda
Roocroft has enjoyed a close relationship with the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival, and the Bayerische Staatsoper
in Munich and her roles in these houses have included
Fiordiligi/Cosi fan Tutte, Countess/Le Nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira/Don
Giovanni, Desdemona/Otello, Amelia/Simon Boccanegra, Mimi/La Boheme,
Eva/Die Meistersinger, the title roles in Katya and Jenufa, Genevre/Ariodante
and Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare.
Future
engagements include Countess/Le Nozze di Figaro and Mimi/La bohème
in Munich, Tatiana/Eugene Onegin for Welsh National Opera, Jenufa
in Barcelona, her first Madame Butterfly at Covent Garden and her
first Elisabetta/Don Carlos for the Netherlands Opera.
April
2003
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