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Rosemary JOSHUA (soprano) Née à Cardiff (Royaume-Uni), la soprano Rosemary Joshua a étudié au Royal College of Music de Londres et a rapidement fait ses débuts scéniques dans les rôles de Zerline (Don Giovanni) avec le Scottish Opera, ainsi qu'avec Susanna (Les Noces de Figaro) et Sophie (Le Chevalier à la Rose) à l'English National Opera. Au Festival de Glyndenbourne, elle a été engagée dans les rôles de Susanna et de Anne Trulove (The Rake's Progress). Rosemary Joshua interprète tout particulièrement le répertoire haendelien, et ce depuis ses débuts au Festival D'Aix-en-Provence où elle a chanté le rôle d'Angelica dans Orlando. À Cologne, elle a chanté Agrippine (Le Couronnement de Poppée). Rosemary Joshua a enregistré Orlando avec Les Arts Florissants et William Christie, Didon and Aeneas avec René Jacobs, ainsi que Sophie du Chevalier à la Rose. Voice & Music
Festival Rosemary Joshua was born in Cardiff. After finishing her studies at the Royal College of Music, her early operatic appearances included Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Scottish Opera, and both Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) for English National Opera. She has subsequently sung Susanna and Anne Trulove at the Glyndebourne Festival. It is above all as a Handel singer that Rosemary Joshua has built up her international reputation, since making her debut at the Aix-en-Provence festival as Angelica in Orlando. She has sung Poppea in Agrippina in Cologne, Brussels and Paris, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Florida and the title role in Semele at the Aix-en-Provence and Innsbruck Festivals, the Flanders Opera, the BBC Promenade Concerts, and at English National Opera (where she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in the category for Outstanding Achievement in Opera). Next season she will sing Semele in Cologne and Ginevra in ‘Ariodante’ in San Diego. Rosemary Joshua has also sung Susanna in Cologne, Ilia in Lisbon, Pamina in Brussels and Juliette (Romeo et Juliette) in San Diego. Future operatic engagements include Sophie at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin and the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen at the Flanders Opera and the Théatre des Champs Elysées. She will make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York as Adele in Die Fledermaus. Her future roles at the Bavarian Statee Opera, Munich, include Euridice (Orfeo et Euridice), Micael (Saul), Sophie and Susanna. Rosemary Joshua appears in concert regularly throughout Europe and has sung with the Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National and Freiburg Baroque Orchestras, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin and Les Musiciens du Louvre. Recent appearances include Bach’s B Minor Mass with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Mark Elder at the Royal Festival Hall, Beethoven’s Choral Symphony with Sir Simon Rattle and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, appearances with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan and Arnold Östman, and with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Her recordings include Orlando with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie for Erato, Venus and Adonis with René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier for Chandos, the Sandman in Hansel und Gretel for Teldec, and, most recently, Dido et Aeneas with Rene Jacobs. The Academy of Ancient Music - April 2001 |
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