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Amanda Roocroft, the Glossary

Amanda Jane Roocroft (born 9 February 1966) is an English operatic soprano, who in the course of her career has sung leading roles in the opera houses of Europe and North America.^[1]

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A Sea Symphony

A Sea Symphony is an hour-long work for soprano, baritone, chorus and large orchestra written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1903 and 1909.

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Aix-en-Provence Festival

The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in July.

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Alcina

Alcina (HWV 34) is a 1735 opera seria by George Frideric Handel.

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Andrew Davis (conductor)

Sir Andrew Frank Davis (2 February 1944 – 20 April 2024) was an English conductor.

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Ariodante

Ariodante (HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel.

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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians is a major reference work in the field of music, originally compiled by Theodore Baker, PhD, and published in 1900 by G. Schirmer, Inc. The ninth edition, the most recent edition, was published in 2001.

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Barbara Robotham

Barbara Joyce Robotham (15 January 1936 – 1 July 2013) was an English mezzo-soprano opera singer and concert soloist who later became a distinguished voice teacher at the Royal Northern College of Music. Amanda Roocroft and Barbara Robotham are 20th-century British women opera singers, British music educators and British women music educators.

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Bavarian State Opera

The Bavarian State Opera is a German opera company based in Munich.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Chandos Records

Chandos Records is a British independent classical music recording company based in Colchester.

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Coppull

Coppull is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England.

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Così fan tutte

(Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Der Rosenkavalier

(The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op.

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Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon (DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram.

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Don Carlos

Don Carlos is an 1867 five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos, Infante of Spain) by Friedrich Schiller.

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Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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EMI Records

EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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English National Opera

English National Opera (ENO) is a British opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane.

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Franz Welser-Möst

Franz Leopold Maria Möst (born 16 August 1960), known professionally as Franz Welser-Möst, is an Austrian conductor.

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.

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Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance has been awarded since 1961.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research was a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary of Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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Houston Grand Opera

Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is an American opera company located in Houston, Texas.

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Hubert Parry

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918), was an English composer, teacher and historian of music. Amanda Roocroft and Hubert Parry are academics of the Royal College of Music.

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Irmgard Seefried

Irmgard Seefried (9 October 191924 November 1988) was a distinguished German soprano who sang opera, sacred music, and lieder.

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ITV Granada

ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man.

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Ivor Bolton

Ivor Bolton Ivor Bolton (born 17 May 1958) is an English conductor and harpsichordist.

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Janet Baker

Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.

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Jenůfa

Její pastorkyňa (Her Stepdaughter; commonly known as Jenůfa) is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by the composer, based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriela Preissová. It was first performed at the National Theatre, Brno on 21 January 1904.

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John Eliot Gardiner

Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of 2000, performing Bach's church cantatas in liturgical order in churches all over Europe, and New York City, with the Monteverdi Choir, and recording them at the locations.

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Kathleen Ferrier Award

The Kathleen Ferrier Award is a prestigious contest for opera singers held each April in London, England.

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Káťa Kabanová

Káťa Kabanová (also known in various spellings including Katia, Katja, Katya, and Kabanowa) is an opera in three acts, with music by Leoš Janáček to a libretto by the composer based on The Storm, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, translated by.

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Konrad Jarnot

Konrad Jarnot (born 1972) is an English baritone who works in opera and oratorio and is a notable performer of Lieder.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera

The Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre.

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Malcolm Martineau

Malcolm Martineau, OBE (born 3 February 1960) is a Scottish pianist who is particularly noted as an accompanist.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Michael Kennedy (music critic)

George Michael Sinclair Kennedy CBE (19 February 1926 – 31 December 2014) was an English music critic and author who specialized in classical music.

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National World

National World plc is a British multimedia company based in Leeds, England.

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Neeme Järvi

Neeme Järvi (born 7 June 1937) is an Estonian American conductor.

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Neville Marriner

Sir Neville Marriner, (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English conductor and violinist.

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Nikolai Schukoff

Nikolai Andrej Schukoff (born 1969) is an Austrian operatic tenor.

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Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht (born 11 July 1948) is a British music journalist and author who specializes in classical music.

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Opera (British magazine)

Opera is a monthly British magazine devoted to covering all things related to opera.

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Peter Grimes

Peter Grimes, Op.

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Powder Her Face

Powder Her Face, Op. 14 (1995), is a chamber opera in two acts by the British composer Thomas Adès, with an English libretto by Philip Hensher.

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Rainer Trost

Rainer Trost (born on October 30, 1966) is a German tenor whose performance repertoire encompasses operas, operettas, Lieder and oratorios.

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Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly (born 20 February 1953) is an Italian conductor.

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Rolando Villazón

Rolando Villazón Mauleón (born 22 February 1972) is a Mexican operatic tenor, stage director, author, radio and television personality and artistic director.

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Rosa Mannion

Rosa Mannion (born 1962) is a British operatic soprano who has sung leading roles both in the opera houses of the UK and Europe and in the recording studio. Amanda Roocroft and Rosa Mannion are 20th-century British women opera singers, academics of the Royal College of Music, British music educators, British women music educators and English operatic sopranos.

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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school, drama school and concert venue in Birmingham, England.

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Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK.

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Royal Northern College of Music

The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) is a conservatoire located in Manchester, England.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Runshaw College

Runshaw College is a Higher and Further Education college based in Leyland, England.

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Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is a British conductor with German citizenship.

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Society of London Theatre

The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) is a British trade association for West End theatre in London.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Southlands High School

Southlands High School is a coeducational secondary school in Chorley, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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Stopera

The Stopera is a building complex in Amsterdam, Netherlands, housing both the city hall of Amsterdam and the Dutch National Opera and Ballet (formerly Het Muziektheater), the principal opera house in Amsterdam that is home of Dutch National Opera, Dutch National Ballet and Holland Symfonia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Roocroft

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See also

Academics of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Musicians from Lancashire

People from Chorley

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