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Ann Murray, DBE (born 27 August 1949) is an Irish mezzo-soprano.[1]

Not to be confused with Anne Murray.

Final curtain call of the Metropolitan Opera's 24 December 2011 performance of La fille du régiment (l to r) Lawrence Brownlee (Tonio), Nino Machaidze (Marie), and Ann Murray (Marquise)
Final curtain call of the Metropolitan Opera's 24 December 2011 performance of La fille du régiment (l to r) Lawrence Brownlee (Tonio), Nino Machaidze (Marie), and Ann Murray (Marquise)

Life and career


Murray was born in Dublin. Having won a number of prizes at the Feis Ceoil, she studied singing at the College of Music (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin) with Nancy Calthorpe, as well as arts and music at University College Dublin. In 1968, she made her Irish opera debut performing the shepherd role in a concert performance of Tosca.[2] She pursued further studies with Frederic Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste in 1974. She has since sung at all major opera houses and is particularly noted for her performances in works by George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss.[citation needed]

Murray performs mainly at Covent Garden (where she performed as Siphare in Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto), the English National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera (where she was made Kammersängerin in 1998). Murray was the featured singer in volume three of the Hyperion Schubert Edition, Hyperion Records' complete Franz Schubert lieder project, in 1988, led by pianist Graham Johnson.[citation needed]

She maintains her links with Ireland and was a patron of the Young Associate Artists Programme of Dublin's Opera Theatre Company.[citation needed] In September 2010, she was appointed professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London,[3] where she was previously (since 1999) an honorary fellow.[4]


Recognition


She received an honorary doctorate in music from the National University of Ireland in 1997.[4]

In 2002, she was made an Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Diamond Jubilee Honours for her services to music.[5]

She was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit in 2004.[4]


Family


Murray was married to the late English tenor, Philip Langridge. The couple had one son, Jonathan, also a tenor.[6]


Recordings



See also



Bibliography



References


  1. Macy, Laura Williams (ed.) (2008). The Grove Book of Opera Singers, pp. 334–335. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195337654
  2. Foregoing info based on Axel Klein: "Murray, Ann", in: The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. by Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 697–699.
  3. "New Appointments". Royal Academy of Music. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
  4. Ann Murray at the Royal Academy of Music. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  5. Artist page at Askonas Holt Ltd. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  6. Millington, Barry, "Philip Langridge Obituary: Leading British tenor committed to the theatrical dimension of the operatic stage" The Guardian, 7 March 2010



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[es] Ann Murray

Ann Murray (Dublín, 27 de agosto de 1949) es una mezzosoprano irlandesa.

[ru] Мюррей, Энн (оперная певица)

Энн Мюррей или Марри (англ. Ann Murray; род. 27 августа 1949, Дублин) — ирландская оперная певица (меццо-сопрано). Жена певца Филипа Лангриджа.


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