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Published: 01 May 2013
Dame Felicity Palmer returns to the Metropolitan Opera to perform the role of First Prioress in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites. Conducted by Louis Langrée and directed by John Dexter, the cast also includes Isabel Leonard, Particia Racette, Erin Morley, Elizabeth Bishop and Paul Appleby.Palmer has previously performed the role of Madame de Croissy in a production by the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Her performance was described as “mesmerising”...
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Published: 11 February 2013
On 2 March, Dame Felicity Palmer sings the role of Mrs Peachum in a concert performance of Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera at London’s Royal Festival Hall as part of the year-long festival The Rest Is Noise.Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in this surrealistic and riotous juxtaposition of 18th-century ballad texts, American jazz, and European swing and dance music. The cast also includes Mark Padmore as Macheath,...
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Published: 14 May 2012
Dame Felicity Palmer and George von Bergen sing in a new production of Peter Grimes at Teatro alla Scala this month. Richard Jones directs a brand new production with an excellent line-up of fine singers and Robin Ticciati makes his conducting debut at the theatre.
As one of the leading authorities of English repertoire, Palmer sang Mrs Sedley in David Alden’s award-winning Peter Grimes at the English National Opera (a concert version will...
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Published: 12 September 2011
Dame Felicity Palmer sings her signature role Klytemnestra in Elektra at the Teatro dell’opera de Roma on September 30, October 2, 4, 6 and 8 in a revival production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff and conducted by Fabio Luisi. Dame Felicity most recently sang this role with the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, and at the Metropolitan Opera under Fabio Luisi. Her extraordinary performances were hailed by major press and critics as...
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Published: 03 January 2011
Felicity Palmer has been made a Dame in the 2011 New Year honours list in recognition for her services to music over four decades both as a performing artist and teacher. She was made a CBE in 1993.
“Somehow, it brings my life, career, and the experiences I have had together and helps me view all of them in a positive and grateful light,” said Dame Felicity, describing the honour as, “a great surprise, a huge pleasure and a very exciting...
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Published: 01 November 2010
After her recent success at the Oxford Lieder Festival, mezzo soprano Felicity Palmer performs her 'Women on the Edge' programme with and Simon Lepper on 9 November 9 Opera de Lille.
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Published: 05 October 2010
In October, two Intermusica artists appear at the Oxford Lieder Festival. Roger Vignoles joins the German tenor Tilman Lichdi for Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin on 19 October and baritone Jonathan Lemalu for a programme by Schumann, Brahms, Mussourgsky and Poulenc on 30 October. Felicity Palmer gives an extraordinary programme called ‘Women on the Edge’ with songs by composers ranging from Purcell to Schumann to Tchaikovsky to the gypsy songs of...
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Published: 01 July 2010
Felicity Palmer sings Madame de Croissy in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites at the Bayerische Staatsoper this month. Performances are on 9 and 13 July; Kent Nagano conducts.
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Published: 01 January 2010
Iconic mezzo soprano Felicity Palmer will perform one of her best loved roles in January, in the part of Klytemnestra in two concerts of Strauss’ Elektra with the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev. Currently singing the role at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to critical acclaim, the performances on 12 and 14 January in London will be a rare opportunity to hear Palmer’s masterful singing of the notorious murderess.
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Published: 03 December 2009
Felicity Palmer returns to the Metropolitan Opera this month to sing one of her favourite roles, Klytemnestra in a production of Richard Strauss' Elektra conducted by Fabio Luisi. Admired for her performances of this murderous mother figure during her career thus far, this production run will mark the last time that Palmer performs the role at the Met. Joined by Susan Bullock and Deborah Voigt as the vengeful daughters Elektra and Chrysothemis,...
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