Elizabeth Bainbridge

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Elizabeth Bainbridge (born on 28 March 1930) is a retired opera singer from Sussex, England. Her career in singing spans several decades, the majority of her successes being achieved whilst being a member of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. Bainbridge is a mezzo-soprano and contralto.

Early life

Bainbridge was born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire in the North of England and left school at the age of 14. After working in the weaving mills of Lancashire during the Second World War, she soon pursued her great passion for singing.

Career

Elizabeth Bainbridge made her singing debut at Glyndebourne in East Sussex in 1963^[1] as the Third Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Her debut at Covent Garden was made the following year in Wagner's Die Walküre. She joined the company in 1965 and has since sung in over 1000 performances at the Royal Opera House. Her career has taken her to Japan, Korea, the U.S., Argentina, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Greece.

In 1966 she appeared in the first recording of Bernard Herrmann's opera Wuthering Heights, conducted by the composer.

Family

She gave birth to her son, Godfrey John, in 1954 and has two grandsons, Christopher John, born 1985, and Julian Robin, born 1990. She married the Jamaican Phillon Castell Morris in the 1970s, who died in 1988. Bainbridge has now fully retired from singing and lives in the southern English town of Emsworth.

References

↑ Hall, Charles J. (2002). Chronology of Western Classical Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 1012.

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