| 词条 | Felicity Lott |
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| honorific_prefix = Dame | name = Felicity Lott | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE|FRAM|FRCM}} | image = | image_caption = | birth_name = Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1947|5|8}} | birth_place = Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England | occupation = soprano | spouse = Gabriel Woolf | children = Emily (b. 1984) }} Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE|FRAM|FRCM|commas=on}}[1][2] (born 8 May 1947[3]) is an English soprano. EducationLott was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. From her earliest years she was musical, having started studying piano at age 5. She also played violin and began singing lessons at 12. She is an alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, obtaining a BA in French and Latin in 1969. [4] During her year in France as part of her four-year degree course, from 1967–68 she took singing lessons at the conservatory in Grenoble. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Principal's Prize. CareerShe made her debut in 1975 as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the English National Opera.[4] In 1976 she appeared in the premiere of Henze's We Come to the River at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden[1] and began a long relationship with the Glyndebourne Festival. She has been associated with the works of Richard Strauss including various lieder, the Four Last Songs and the roles of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and the Countess in Capriccio. She has also appeared in operettas, singing the title role in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne, as well as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and the title roles in Offenbach's La belle Hélène and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein.{{citation needed|date=July 2011}} She has a special love for French "mélodies", German "Lieder" and the English song repertoire, particularly the songs of Benjamin Britten. She is a founding member of Songmakers' Almanac. Her accompanist since her student days has been Graham Johnson, and they have given a great number of recitals together.[5] She also has performed duet recitals with mezzo-soprano Ann Murray, baritone Thomas Allen and Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager. She is also featured as a soloist in a recording of the Mozart Requiem in D Minor with the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra. Lott is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.[6] Honours and awardsFelicity Lott has received many honorary doctorates, including the Universities of Oxford, London, Leicester, Sussex, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow and the Sorbonne in Paris.[7] She has been elected to the French Legion of Honor and made a DBE in 1996. She sang at the wedding of HRH Prince Andrew in 1986. In 2003 Dame Felicity was awarded the title of Bayerische Kammersängerin. She is Vice-President of British Youth Opera and The Bach Choir.[8] In autumn 2009 it was announced that she had been appointed a Visiting Professor by Royal Holloway[9] having previously been appointed an Honorary Fellow of the college.[10] On 9 February 2010, she was presented with The Wigmore Hall Medal by HRH The Duke of Kent KG, at the launch of the hall's 110th anniversary programme. The medal was introduced in 2006 and is awarded to internationally important artistic figures in recognition of their significant contribution to Wigmore Hall. The two previous recipients are Matthias Goerne and András Schiff. The citation praised her "unique contribution to Wigmore Hall and to the advancement of the song recital as a concert-going experience throughout the world." It was 35 years since she first performed there in 1975.[11] She is a Patron of Bampton Classical Opera and the British Voice Association.[12] FamilyShe is married to the actor Gabriel Woolf; they have a daughter, Emily (b. 1984). See also
References1. ^1 Royal Academy of Music website, accessed 20 January 2013 2. ^{{cite web |author=Paul Need Kate Flowers |url=http://www.co-opera-co.org/html/dame_felicity_lott.html |title=Dame Felicity Lott |publisher=Co-opera-co.org |date= |accessdate=3 November 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007080242/http://www.co-opera-co.org/html/dame_felicity_lott.html |archivedate=7 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Birthday's today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-8.html |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=29 April 2014|date=8 May 2013|quote=Dame Felicity Lott, soprano, 66 }} 4. ^1 {{cite web|author=Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL)|url=http://www.co-opera-co.org/html/dame_felicity_lott.html|title=Dame Felicity Lott|publisher=RHUL|date=|accessdate=20 January 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007080242/http://www.co-opera-co.org/html/dame_felicity_lott.html|archivedate=7 October 2011|df=dmy-all}} 5. ^See for example the image of the programme of her first recital at Wigmore Hall on this page 6. ^http://www.ism.org 7. ^Biography on her agents website, accessed 12 April 2014 8. ^The Bach Choir website, accessed 11 September 2012 9. ^{{Cite book | author=Royal Holloway, London | authorlink= | author2= | title="Higher" (Alumni Magazine) | date=November 2009 | publisher=Royal Holloway College Alumni Association | location=Egham, Surrey | isbn= | pages= }} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rhul.ac.uk/aboutus/governancematters/honoraries.aspx |title=Honorary Fellows and Graduates |publisher=Royal Holloway, University of London |accessdate=26 November 2011}} 11. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/about-us/news/?action=detail&id=31 |title=News | Wigmore Hall: Classical Chamber Music & Song Concerts :: |publisher=Wigmore Hall |date= |accessdate=3 November 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927141840/http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/about-us/news/?action=detail&id=31 |archivedate=27 September 2011 |df=dmy-all }} 12. ^{{cite web|author=David Siddall Multimedia on behalf of The British Voice Association – v4 June 2009 |url=http://www.britishvoiceassociation.org.uk |title=The Voice for Voice |publisher=British Voice Association |date= |accessdate=3 November 2011}} External links
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