LYNNE DAWSON
Lynne Dawson is established as one of Britain's most versatile and popular sopranos and enjoys a busy career which encompasses recitals, opera, concerts and recordings at the highest international level.
She has appeared with many of the world’s leading conductors including Giulini, Barenboim, Mehta, Ashkenazy, Gardiner, Chailly, Harnoncourt, Minkowski and Mackerras and made recordings for all the major labels. She now has over sixty CDs in her personal recording catalogue including Don Giovanni (EMI/ Norrington), Monteverdi's Orfeo (DG/Gardiner), Mozart Requiem (CBS/Giulini), Ariodante (DG/Minkowski), Mozart's Zaide (Harmonia Mundi/Goodwin) and the award-winning recording of Orff's Carmina Burana with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Herbert Blomstedt. Recent and future releases include Mozart’s C-minor Mass for Erato, Handel’s L’Allegro for EMI, the 2000 Gramophone Award winning Lili Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène for Chandos, Handel’s Hercules for DG Archiv and a solo disc of English Songs for Hyperion.
Lynne Dawson’s operatic roles have included Zdenka (Chatelet), Fiordiligi (Naples), Constanze (La Monnaie), Iphigenie en Aulide (Aix-en-Provence), Gluck's Orfeo (Nice and Barcelona), Amenaide in Rossini's Tancredi, Handel’s Cleopatra and Pamina at the State Opera in Berlin. Last season began with one of the principle roles in the world première performances of Elliot Carter’s opera What Next? at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim with additional performances in Chicago and New York.
Lynne Dawson has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras; highlights include Bach B-MinorMass, Brahms and Mozart Requiems at La Scala, Shéhérazade at the Proms, Mozart Requiem and C Minor Mass at the Salzburg Festival, televised performances of St Matthew Passion with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as Beethoven Symphony No.9 and Strauss Vier letze lieder with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In September 1997, Ms Dawson was watched by millions world-wide on the occasion of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.
As well as including her recital début at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Lynne Dawson’s current season includes Schumann’s Faustszenen with Jeffrey Tate in Turin, Haydn’s Creation with Sir Neville Marriner in Palermo, Mahler, Symphony No 2 in Kuala Lumpur with Kees Baakels as well as concert performances of Handel’s Ariodante with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre.
Lynne Dawson’s website can be visited at www.lynnedawson.com
