Felicity Palmer is one of the most versatile performing artists singing today, equally at home in music as diverse as Wagner, Mahler, Brahms, Rossini, Dvorák, Beethoven, Bach, Handel and Berio.
She performs regularly at the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, La Scale, Milan, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra de Paris, the Netherlands Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and English National Opera in roles such as Klytemnestra Elektra, The Old Prioress Dialogues des Carmelites, Mistress Quickly Falstaff, and The Countess Pique Dame to name a few.
She has long distinguished herself in concert performances including the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Boulez, Davis and Rozhdestvensky; the English Chamber Orchestra with Sir Charles Mackerras; the London Symphony Orchestra with Tilson Thomas; the Philharmonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Sinopoli; the Concentus Musicus Wien with Harnoncourt; the Concertgebouw Orchestra with De Waart, the New York Philharmonic with Boulez; the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Frühbeck de Burgos and the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle.
She has given recitals in London and throughout Europe. Her many recordings include Stravinsky's Le Rossignol and Messiaens's Poèmes pour Mi with Pierre Boulez, vocal music by Benjamen Britten for EMI and two records of Victorian and Edwardian songs with John Constable.
In addition to her concert and operatic work, Felicity Palmer is now working privately with a growing number of young professional singers in London. She also gives masterclasses in Europe and the USA as well as continuing to contribute as and when she can to the work of the music colleges in England.
Recent engagements include Les Dialogues des Carmelites for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Katya Kabanova for the Royal Opera House, and La Fille du régiment and Peter Grimes for the Metropolitan Opera. Forthcoming engagements include Peter Eötvös’ new opera Love and other Demons for Glyndebourne, Dialogues des Carmelites in Munich and Pelléas et Melisande at the Metropolitan Opera under Sir Simon Rattle.
Felicity was made a CBE in 1993.
Felicity Palmer is represented by Intermusica worldwide.
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