Ann Murray DBE

ANN MURRAY, DBE Mezzo soprano Ann Murray was born in Dublin and studied with Frederick Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music. She has established close links with both the English National Opera, for whom she has sung the title roles in Handel Xerxes and Ariodante and Donizetti Maria Stuarda, and with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where her roles have included Cherubino (Mozart Le nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Mozart Cosi fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Mozart Don Giovanni), Rosina (Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia), Octavian (Strauss Der Rosenkavalier), Child (Ravel L'Enfant et les Sortilèges), Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Idamante (Mozart Idomeneo), Sifare (Mozart Mitridate, Re di Ponto), Dorabella (Mozart Cosi fan tutte), Amaltea (Rossini Mosé in Egitto), Ruggiero (Handel Alcin