Jean Rigby

Comely to look at and with a stunning voice, mezzo soprano Jean Rigby has forged a significant career in music which range from works from the Baroque period to contemporary Uk scores. Using a musical keenness respected by many essential conductors, Rigby is a leading selection of musician for both live show and in the documenting studio. Rigby educated on the Royal Birmingham College of Music before getting into London’s Royal Academy of Music. On the Memory, she examined with soprano Patricia Clark and continuing to utilize her teacher pursuing graduation. Shortly thereafter, she found the interest of both British opera homes and began some engagements that included such assignments as Carmen, Octavian, Rosina, Britten’s Lucretia and Hypolyta, Verdi’s Maddalena, and Monteverdi’s Penelope on the British Country wide Opera and Nicklausse and Antonia’s Mom at Covent Backyard. On the Garsington Celebration, Rigby won reviews that are positive on her behalf Cenerentola; on the Glyndebourne Celebration, she’s sung Irene in Handel’s Theodora and Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande. On the Seattle Opera, she produced her 1997 debut as Charlotte in Werther. Over the concert stage, Rigby continues to be equally busy. Furthermore to showing up with Britain’s leading orchestras and ensembles, she produced her debut in Vienna in 1994 as alto soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis beneath the path of Sir Neville Marriner. Her initial appearances on the Salzburg Celebration occurred with conductor Trevor Pinnock. In Britain, she’s been specifically well-received in her many performances on the BBC Promenade Concerts where, among various other music, she’s sung Mahler with both Sir Charles Mackerras and Sir Andrew Davis. Using the London Sinfonietta, she sang in Jonathan Cole’s Assassin Locks and won compliment for her uncommon eloquence. Among her recordings, Rigby’s Lucretia in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia was respectable even while confronted with such competition on disk as Janet Baker and, on the live documenting, the role’s originator, Kathleen Ferrier. With Sir Neville Marriner, she documented J.S. Bach’s Magnificat; with Sir Andrew Davis, she focused on disk Elgar’s music for alto and orchestra, while Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde was documented with conductor Tag Wigglesworth. A documenting of Adam MacMillan’s Bringing up Sparks drew admiring testimonials for Rigby’s atmospheric performing.