Margaret Anne Marshall

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Margaret Anne Marshall OBE (born January 4, 1949, Stirling) is a Scottish soprano.

She studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow. She also trained with Ena Mitchell and Peter Pears in England and with Hans Hotter in Munich. Margaret Marshall gained international recognition in 1974 when she received the first prize at the Munich International Competition.

There followed engagements throughout commencing with a recital début at the Wigmore Hall in 1975. She made her Festival Hall début singing in J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1976. During her career she has worked with all the major British orchestras.

Internationally she has appeared with the Orchestre de Paris, Berliner Philharmoniker, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic under such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti.

In 1978 Margaret Marshall made her operatic début in Florence singing Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo under Muti. She then sang the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and made her Covent Garden début in the same role in 1980.

She performed the same work at La Scala, Milan, with the English National Opera, the Scottish Opera and the Cologne Opera. She made her début at the Salzburg Festival in 1982 singing Fiordiligi in Così fan Tutte with Muti, a role she subsequently recorded for EMI. She was a regular guest in Salzburg singing there in between 1982 & 1986, and again in 1990 and 1991.

She made her first solo appearance in the USA with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Subsequently she made several American tours as a concert artist. She made her first appearance at the Vienna State Opera in 1988 as Mozart’s Countess.

Important concert appearances have included Britten's War Requiem and Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performances in Philadelphia with Sir Neville Marriner, Handel's Messiah at the Dresden Festival, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis for Santa Cecilia in Rome and concerts in The Hague, Helsinki, Düsseldorf and Mannheim.

Amongst her highlight performances included singing in Haydn's Creation at the Philharmonie Cologne, Bach's B minor Mass with the London Philharmonic at the Royal Festival Hall, Schumann's Der Rose Pilgerfahrt for Accademia Santa Cecilia Rome, Bruckner's F minor Mass in Wuppertal and Haydn's Harmonienmesse in Hamburg, Mahler's Symphony No.4 at the Teatro Comunale Bologna, Strauss songs with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Mozart Masses with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.