Singing

All enquiries and entry forms to the Singing Section Secretary:-

Mrs Pauline Wells

Hartswell, Tilford Road, Churt, Farnham, Surrey GU10 2LL

Tel. 01428 604219

Anne Howells studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (now the Royal Northern) with Frederick Cox. She joined the Royal Opera House while still in her twenties and continued to sing there through a long career which took her to every major opera house in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera of New York, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Vienna Staatsoper and the Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals.

A favourite Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, she also sang the role of Despina when the Royal Opera visited Japan and sang the roles of Ascanius and Annio in Berlioz’ Benvenuto Cellini and Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito when the Royal Opera toured to La Scala Milan. She worked with Luchino Visconti, Sir Peter Hall and John Shlesinger and favourite conductors included Colin Davis, Georg Solti, Andre Previn and Yehudi Menuhin.

She took part in a tour of the United States with Andre Previn and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra which took her to the Carnegie Hall.  Other concert work took her to the Musikverein of Vienna, the Wigmore Hall, and often to the Proms at the Albert Hall. She is no stranger to contemporary work and sang the role of Lady Hautdesert in a prize-winning recording of Birtwhistle’s Gawain and the Green Knight from the Royal Opera production. She sings the title role of the DVD of Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss in the Solti/Schlesinger production from the Royal Opera House, also the role of Orsini in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia with Joan Sutherland, Stafford Dean and Alfredo Krauss.

She retired from performing in 2000 and teaches at the Royal Academy of Music where she was recently awarded an Hon.RAM, the highest honour that the Academy confers.

 Class times for 2011 are in the table below