Gillian Webster sings Handel

Born in Scotland, soprano Gillian Webster studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio. Her most recent engagements have included the Countess LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, in Portugal; ACI GALATEA E POLIFEMO with Paul McCreesh at London's Wigmore Hall and Vienna's Konzerthaus; as well as Haydn Creation with The Ulster Orchestra.

Gillian has appeared regularly at the Royal Opera House in roles including Pamina and First Lady DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE; Contessa LE NOZZE DI FIGARO; Ilia IDOMONEO; Servilia LA CLEMENZA DI TITO; First and Second Nieces PETER GRIMES; Micaëla CARMEN; Mimi LA BOHEME; Euridice ORFEO ED EURIDICE; Marzelline FIDELIO; Woglinde and Wellgunde DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN; and the title roles in LE COQ D'OR and KATYA KABANOVA. She has also sung Pamina DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE and Leila LES PECHEURS DE PERLES for English National Opera.

Gillian Webster's international opera engagements have included Pamina DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE in Stuttgart; Euridice ORFEO ED EURIDICE at the Komische Oper Berlin; Contessa LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at Vlaamse Opera; Servilia LA CLEMENZA DI TITO at l'Opéra de Nancy; Micaëla CARMEN in Tours; Mimi LA BOHEME in Las Palmas; Comtesse de la Roche DIE SOLDATEN and Elsa LOHENGRIN in Nantes; Elsa LOHENGRIN in Dijon; First Lady DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE in Bordeaux, Geneva, Aix-en-Provence, Chorégies d'Orange, Amsterdam and at the Bastille; Ginevra ARIODANTE with Les Musiciens du Louvre; Vitellia LA CLEMENZA DI TITO in Metz and many other roles and houses throughout Europe.

A noted exponent of baroque music and of the concert works of Mahler, Strauss, Mozart and Beethoven, she has sung under the baton of Paul McCreesh, Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Bernard Haitink, Marc Minkowski, Lord Menuhin, Sir Georg Solti and Jeffrey Tate. Concert engagements have included Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the New York Philharmonic; Strauss Four Last Songs with L'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Nancy; Beethoven Missa Solemnis with the Madrid National Orchestra; Pallas Athene in Gluck PARIDE ED ELENA; Galatea ACIS AND GALATEA with Les Musiciens du Louvre; and Aci ACI GALATEA E POLIFEMO on tour in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK with the Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh.

Regular chamber music recitals in works by Shostakovich, Chausson, Schubert and Schoenberg have seen her perform with the Alice Ader Ensemble, the Arpeggione quartet, the Talich quartet and the Wanderer trio, taking part last year in a Shostakovitch festival at the Konzert Haus, Berlin.

Recordings include Beethoven Choral Symphony; the roles of Second Niece PETER GRIMES; Pallas Athene PARIDE ED ELENA; and DVDs of ORFEO ED EURIDICE and DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE with the Royal Opera. She recently sang with Jessye Norman as Second Woman DIDO AND AENEAS at the Chatelet in Paris.

Recent highlights include performances of Beethoven Missa Solemnis with McCreesh, performances with L'Orchestra Philharmonic Radio France, Lonely Child by Claude Vivier and the Britten Spring Symphony, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. In January she performed Mary Maddalena in Handel LA RESURREZIONE with the Gabrieli Consort and in March, worked with the young musicians at Chethams School of Music, giving master classes and finally culminating in performances of Elijah. Future plans include the role of Cesare CATONE IN UTICA in Venice with La Serenissima.

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[SilenceTheQuiet]

I've always loved her voice:) It's always is perfect!!