Rosalind Plowright
ROSALIND PLOWRIGHT is one of Britain's leading opera singers. She has performed in virtually every major opera house in the world including new productions at Covent Garden, English National Opera, Paris, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Athens, The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, San Diego, Carnegie Hall, La Scala Milan, Verona, Florence, La Fenice, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Santiago di Chile.
Her American debut was alongside Jose Carreras and they also sang Andrea Chenier at Covent Garden and recorded La Forza del Destino for Deutsche Grammophon. With Placido Domingo she has performed II Trovatore at Covent Garden and recorded the opera with him for Deutsche Grammophon for which she was personally awarded the Prix Fondation Fanny Heldy (awarded to one soprano in one year for one recording). With Luciano Pavarotti she performed Aida at Covent Garden and a gala concert for 25,000 at the Arena of Verona.
Other recordings include Mary Stuart, Otello, Aida and Hansel & Gretel all for the Opera in English series for Chandos, Elijah for Chandos, La Vestale for Orfeo, Contes d’Hoffmann for EMI and Mahler 2nd Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon.
Among the many conductors with whom she has worked are Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Giuseppi Sinopli, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bernard Haitink, Antonio Pappano, Michael Gielen, Sylvain Cambreling, Mark Elder, Roger Norrington, Gustav Kuhn and Giuseppi Patane.
Rosalind Plowright has performed with all the major orchestras and has given many recitals with the late Geoffrey Parsons in over 20 international festivals.
As an actress Rosalind Plowright has appeared as Grace Vosper in the BBC series House of Elliott and with Anglia TV the part of Hermione Harefield in their adaptation of the Jilly Cooper novel The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous. As a theatre artist, Rosalind has appeared in the new musical comedy Two’s a Crowd.
This season Rosalind Plowright will return to Covent Garden as Fricka in the Ring, the Metropolitan Opera as Gertrude in Hansel & Gretel and to Paris Opera as the Mother in Il Prigioniero.
Rosalind Plowright was awarded an OBE for services to opera in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2007.