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| | Roocroft Amanda | | soprano | 
| Amanda Roocroft, who has established an international reputation as one of Britain's most exciting singers, was born in 1966 in Coppull, Lancashire. She graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music and studies with Barbara Robotham. In 1988 she won the Decca-Kathleen Ferrier Prize and the prestigious Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Whilst a student she participated in many master classes including the televised Royal Bank Master Classes with Dame Joan Hammond and was the subject of A Girl from Coppull in Granada Television's series Celebration. Granada also filmed a further programme in the same series to chart the course of career since the initial programme. In 1991 she was awarded the 1990 Royal Philharmonic Society/Charles Heidsieck Award for "The impact of her performances in opera and in concert and the promise of a distinguished career." During 1988/89, whilst still a student, she received unprecedented critical acclaim for her performances of Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte ) and the title role in Handel's Alcina at the Royal Northern College of Music as well as for a performance of Tippett's A Child of Our Time at which the composer was present. Amanda Roocroft made her professional operatic debut in the spring of 1990 singing Sophie in a new production of Der Rosenkavalier conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras for Welsh National Opera, for which, again, she received enormous critical acclaim. During the autumn of 1990 Amanda Roocroft sang Pamina for the Glyndebourne Touring Opera and in the spring of 1991 made her debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in the same role. In the summer of 1991 she had a huge personal success singing Fiodiligi in Glyndebourne Festival Opera's new production of Così fan tutte conducted by Simon Rattle and directed by Trevor Nunn. In 1992 Amanda Roocroft toured Europe in a new production of Così fan tutte under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner - which was recorded on disc and video by Deutsche Grammophon Archiv (and released in November 1993). Later in the year she returned to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Giuletta in I Capuleti e I Montecchi - to unanimous critical acclaim. In January 1993 she made a triumphant debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as Fiordiligi, a production which was revived at the Munich Festival in July. Amanda Roocroft returned to London in April 1993 to sing Ginevra in a new production of Handel's Ariodante for English National Opera. Amanda Roocroft is a very active concert singer and has appeared very regularly on London's South Bank and at the Barbican, as well as throughout Britain with conductors such as Simon Rattle, John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Neville Mariner, Andrew Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Lord Menuhin. Recent performances of Strauss' Four Last Songs have been given with Rattle in Birmingham, as well as in Manchester with the Hallé and in Scotland with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. In 1993 she appeared for the first time at the BBC Promenade Concerts in London, and at the Edinburgh International Festival. She also appears regularly in recital. In the Autumn of 1993, Amanda Roocroft returned to the Opera House as Pamina/Die Zauberflöte, and other operatic commitments during 1993/94 included further performances of Così in Munich and Donna Elvira in a new production of Don Giovanni under Simon Rattle during the inaugural season of the new Glyndebourne opera house. This season has already included two new productions; Così at Covent Garden and her first Verdian role, Amelia/Simon Boccanegra in Munich. Future plans include Countess/Le Nozze di Figaro in Munich, the title roles in Arabella and Luisa Miller, as well as Mimi/La Bohème at Covent Garden, and Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni for the Met in New York. Recent concert engagements have included a song recital at the Bastille in Paris, returns to the Proms and the Edinburgh Festival and Strauss' Four Last Songs with Mariss Jansons and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Future concert commitments include a London recital in the Wigmore Hall's International Song Recital Series, recitals in Geneva, Munich, and Vienna, concerts with Wolfgang Sawallisch in London, in Rome and London with Daniele Gatti, and, in 1997, a concert during Salzburg's Mozartwochen with the Vienna Philharmonic and Alfred Brendel. |
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