Deborah Hawksley

Deborah Hawksley (* 1970 in Singapore ) is a British opera and concert singer with a mezzo-soprano voice .

Life

Hawksley grew up in East Yorkshire and trained as a nurse with additional qualification ( Registered Nurse ) at Middlesex Hospital in London . She studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Hawksley has since appeared in numerous opera and concert events, where she sang a repertoire that ranged from early music to modern works . In 1989 she started her career with Glyndebourne Touring Opera in the small role of the strolling player in Benjamin Britten's opera Death in Venice . Hawksley appeared regularly at the English National Opera in the following years . There she sang, among others, Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte , Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus , Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos , Marfa in Khovanshchina , Annina in Der Rosenkavalier and Katisha in Der Mikado . At the Covent Garden Opera in 1995 she appeared as Second Witch as part of the English Bach Festival in a production of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas . At the Dublin Opera House she sang Dorabella in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Così fan tutte . At the Aldeburgh Festival she appeared as the Türkenbab ( Baba the Turk ) in Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress .

Hawksley also took part in touring productions of operas several times . In 1995 she sang the title role in the opera La Cenerentola by Gioacchino Rossini with the European Chamber Opera . In the 1998/1999 season she appeared at First Act Opera in the title role of the opera Carmen . In 1999 she sang the role of Orlofsky on the London City Opera tour of the USA. She also sang Prince Orlofsky and Katisha for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. A live recording of these performances in English was also released on CD in 1995. In 2001 she sang Flora in Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata at the open-air performances of Opera Holland Park in the London district of Holland Park and in 2004 Prince Orlofsky. As part of the Cambridge Summer Music Festival in 2007, she sang the role of Türkenbab again in a production by Opera East Productions. In 2009 she sang the role of Larina in Eugene Onegin at the Iford Festival Opera . In 2010 Deborah Hawksley took on the role of Mrs. Peachum in The Beggar's Opera in a production of The Opera Project at the Longborough Festival .

Her other operatic roles included: Frugola in Il tabarro and La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi in a Broomhill Opera production directed by Simon Callow , the title role in The Beautiful Helena at Castleward Opera, and the roles of Florence Pike in Albert Herring , Mrs. Quickly in Falstaff and Mrs. Försterin in The Cunning Little Vixen , both in productions of The Opera Project.

Hawksley is also a regular concert singer. Her repertoire includes the Requiem by Verdi, the Petite Messe solennelle by Rossini and the oratorio The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar . In Germany , Hawksley was best known as a soloist in various promenade concerts in Berlin , Düsseldorf and Hamburg . In 2007 she was the vocal soloist in the final concert of the Potsdam Music Festival in the palace gardens of Sanssouci Palace . Accompanied by the Babelsberg Film Orchestra under the direction of Scott Lawton , she sang Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne and Jerusalem by Hubert Parry .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deborah Hawksley in International who's who in music and musicians' directory 2000/2001 edition, p. 271 (excerpts from Google Books.).
2. ↑ J. Strauss II-Die Fledermaus (in English) Gramophone Classical Good Cd Guide , 1998, p. 905.
3. ↑ Opera Holland Park  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. OHP Cast List Archive.  
4. ↑ The Rake's Progress performance review by Marc Levy, July 21, 2007.
5. ↑ Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin Performance Review by Mike Reynolds on Musical Criticism, July 30, 2009.
6. ↑ OPERA-L Archives private performance review from August 28, 1995.
7. ^ Very British: Even the rubber boot throwing , concert review in: Die Welt, August 23, 2005.
8. ↑ Musica Britannica ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Musikfestspiele Potsdam 2007.
9. ↑ Jerusalem by Hubert Parry , live recording (2007) on Youtube .