Joan Rodgers
Joan Rodgers C.B.E. (born 4 November 1956[1] in Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England) is an English operatic soprano.
Early life
[edit | edit source]She attended Whitehaven Grammar School, gaining French, German and Russian A-levels.[2]
She read Russian at the University of Liverpool and studied at the RNCM. She studied singing with Audrey Langford.
Career
[edit | edit source]She made her professional opera debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1982 as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute; a role she later sang for her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1995. In 1983 she made her debut at the English National Opera as the Wood Nymph in Rusalka, and performed for the first time at the Royal Opera House as the princess in L'enfant et les sortilèges. She made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1989 as Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.[3]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]She was married to the conductor Paul Daniel,[4] and married Alan Samson in 2013.[5]
She was created a CBE in 2001.
References
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- 1956 births
- Living people
- English operatic sopranos
- 20th-century English women opera singers
- 21st-century British women opera singers
- People from Cleator Moor
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Alumni of the University of Liverpool
- Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music
- British opera singer stubs