Elizabeth Watts
Soprano
Media
Solo violin Zoe Beyers. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rory Macdonald. Live broadcast, by kind permission of the BBC, November 2021
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rory Macdonald. Live broadcast, by kind permission of the BBC, November 2021
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sakari Oramo, live concert. By kind permission of BBC Radio 3. February 2020
London Mozart Players conducted by Jane Glover. Live broadcast by kind permission of BBC Radio 3, 2019
with BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann. Live broadcast by kind permission of BBC Radio 3, 2019
with BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Elisabeth Kulman (soprano), conducted by Sakari Oramo. BBC Proms 2017. By kind permission of BBC Radio 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins. By kind permission of Hyperion Records, 2017
News
30 March sees Elizabeth Watts returning to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, this time for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the ‘Resurrection’, at the Royal Albert Hall, conducted by...
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On 22nd March, Claudia Huckle and Elizabeth Watts join forces with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert of Mahler and Beethoven. As well as Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture, the concert...
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March sees Elizabeth Watts in Santander, Spain, with the Britten Sinfonia, singing Britten's Les Illuminations at the Palacio Festivales, Cantabria.
MORE“Elizabeth Watts characterised the terror, resignation, longing, regret and malevolence in each narrative vividly, her bright soprano gleaming with conviction.”
Elizabeth Watts was a chorister at Norwich Cathedral and studied archaeology at Sheffield University before studying singing at the Royal College of Music in London. She was awarded an Hon DMus from Sheffield in 2013 and became a Fellow of the RCM in 2017. She is a prolific recording artist, and her recordings include critically acclaimed discs of Lieder by Schubert and Strauss; Mozart arias with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; works by Alessandro Scarlatti with The English Concert, and most recently, Handel Brockes Passion with the Academy of Ancient Music.
Highlights
- Fiordiligi Così fan tutte; Countess & Susanna Le nozze di Figaro; Elvira Don Giovanni – Welsh National Opera
- Aspasia, Mitridate, re di Ponto – Garsington Opera
- Mahler Symphony No 2 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms
- Ligeti Le Grand Macabre – Sir Simon Rattle & London Symphony Orchestra; Alan Gilbert & NDR Hamburg
- Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony – Sakari Oramo & Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Recitals – Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Aldeburgh Festival
Biography
This season Elizabeth will appear in concert, recital and on the opera stage returning to both Garsington Opera and the Wigmore Hall and, in concert, performing Vaughan Williams with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins; Britten Les Illuminations with the Britten Sinfonia in Santander; Mahler with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth; Beethoven with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott; Mahler with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko; Poulenc with the Residentie Orkest with Jun Märkl and Mozart concert arias with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne conducted by Christian Zacharias.
Past concert highlights have included Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Robin Ticciati at the Glyndebourne Festival; Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride with Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España with Nathalie Stutzmann; Mozart concert arias with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Richard Egarr; Britten Spring Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle; Rossini Petite messe solennelle with the LPO and Gustavo Gimeno and Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Sakari Oramo
Highlights of Elizabeth’s many appearances at the BBC Proms include Mahler Symphony No. 2 with the BBCSO and Sakari Oramo; Ravel L’enfant et les sortilèges with the LSO and Simon Rattle; Schubert songs with the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds and Beethoven arias with the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Manze.
Opera roles have included Countess Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni and Fiordiligi Così fan tutte for Welsh National Opera, Almirena in Handel Rinaldo for Glyndebourne; Marzelline Fidelio for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; and most recently Countess Le nozze di Figaro for English National Opera.
Elizabeth won the 2007 Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition as well as the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in February 2011.
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