Heather Harper

Heather Harper

Heather Harper, CBE, soprano británica nacida el 8 de mayo de 1930 en Belfast, Irlanda.

Notable intérprete mozartiana y de óperas contemporáneas y clásicas, especialmente Benjamin Britten.

Estudió piano en Belfast y en el Trinity College of Music de Londres, tomando clases con Helen Isepp y Frederic Husler, además cantó en el coro de la BBC.

Debutó como Lady Macbeth en 1954 ( Oxford University Opera Club), formando parte del English Opera Group ( 1956 - 1975).

Debutó en Covent Garden en 1962 como Helena en Sueño de una noche de verano de Britten y en 1967 en el Festival de Bayreuth como Elsa de Lohengrin.

En 1977 debutó en el Metropolitan Opera como la Condesa en Las bodas de Fígaro.

En 1969 debutó en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires como Vitellia en La clemenza di Tito regresando en 1971, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1978 y 1986, allí cantó Arabella, Marguerite, Donna Elvira, Antonia y Ellen Orford.

Sus principales personajes fueron Elsa, Arabella, Ellen Orford en Peter Grimes, Donna Elvira, the Governess en The Turn of The Screw.

Cantó en el estreno mundial del Réquiem de Guerra de Britten en la catedral de Coventry sustituyendo a Galina Vishnévskaya a quien le fue denegado el permiso de asistir por parte de las autoridades soviéticas.

Se retiró en 1984.

Desde 1985 es profesora en el Royal College of Music London, Glasgow y en la Britten-Pears School en Snap.

Discografía de referencia

  • Bach: St John Passion / Britten
  • Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Etc / Giulini
  • Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Britten, London So
  • Britten: Las Iluminaciones /Marriner, Northern Sin.
  • Britten: Peter Grimes / Davis
  • Britten: Peter Grimes / Britten
  • Britten: War Requiem, Sinfonía Da Requiem/ Hickox
  • Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro / Barenboim,
  • Handel: Judas Maccabeus / Somary
  • Handel: Messiah / Davis
  • Handel: Theodora / Somary,
  • Haydn: The Seasons / Davis
  • Mahler: Symphony No 2 / Solti, London Symphony Orchestra
  • Mahler: Symphony No 3 / Haitink, Concertgebouw
  • Mahler: Symphony No 4; Berlioz / Barbirolli,
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni / Barenboim
  • Mozart: Idomeneo, Ré Di Creta / Davis
  • R. Strauss: Four Last Songs, Orchestral Songs / Richard Hickox
  • Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony / Previn
  • Wagner: Lohengrin - Bayreuth, 1967 / Kempe
  • Wagner: Lohengrin / Erede, Bayreuth 1968

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