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Anne-Marie Owens
Representation: General Management
Born in South Shields, Anne-Marie Owens studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Laura Sarti and at the National Opera Studio. She made her professional debut as Mistress Quickly Falstaff for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and joined English National Opera in 1985, where her more recent roles have included Anezka The Two Widows, High Priestess La Vestale, Marfa Khovanshchina, Jezibaba Rusalka, and Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert (filmed for Channel 4).
As one of Britain’s leading mezzo-sopranos, Anne-Marie Owens has performed for many of the world’s great opera companies, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre Royale de La Monnaie, Opéra de Lausanne, New York City Opera, Santiago Opera, Arizona Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Opera di San Carlo, the Komische Oper, Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera Australia and at the Hong Kong and Saito Kinen Festivals. Anne-Marie’s vast operatic repertoire has included Brangäne Tristan und Isolde, Amneris Aida, Azucena Il Trovatore, Venus Tannhäuser, Herodias Salome and Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana. While maintaining many of these roles in her repertoire, further engagements have included Morozova in Tchaikovsky’s Opricnick in Cagliari, Madelon Andrea Chenier for Scottish Opera, Ragonde Le Comte Ory for Garsington Opera, Witch Hänsel und Gretel and Jezibaba Rusalka for Opera Australia, Opera North and Grange Park Opera, Herodias in Salome for both Santa Fe Opera and Opera North, Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro, Mistress Quickly Falstaff for Grange Park Opera, Mrs Grose Turn of the Screw for Glyndebourne on Tour, Azucena Il Trovatore for WNO, Auntie Peter Grimes in Naples, Mary Der fliegende Holländer for London Lyric Opera, Fricka Das Rheingold for Nationale Reisopera, Beethoven 9th Symphony for the RPO, Dame Hannah Ruddigore for Opera North and Princess Clarissa Love for Three Oranges for Grange Park Opera.
Anne-Marie is also in much demand on the concert platform where she regularly performs the works of Mahler, Vaughan Williams, Elgar and the choral works of Verdi, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Beethoven with such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, OAE, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, CBSO, RSNO, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, City of London Sinfonia and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Recent engagements include Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera Naradowa, Katisha The Mikado for ENO, Petrovna The Tsar’s Bride for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune for Bregenz Festival. Engagements in 2011/2012 include further performances of Ruddigore for Opera North, Mahler 8th Symphony with Philharmonia (Maazel), Miss Fortune at Covent Garden and Pique Dame for Grange Park Opera. Subsequent engagements include Beethoven 9th Symphony with Philharmonia and Mrs Herring Albert Herring in Toulouse.
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Email: Lucie Davienne
