Lesley Garrett
Sean Rafferty visits soprano Lesley Garrett at her home to learn about her career and passions, including her many interests outside the world of music.
Sean visits the soprano Lesley Garrett at her home for a cup of tea and to talk about her career and passions.
Lesley is one of the UK's most recognisable sopranos thanks to the breadth of her work: from Monteverdi at Glyndebourne and Mozart at ENO, to The Sound of Music in the West End, contemporary opera, not to mention a side career as a TV presenter.
Brought up in Yorkshire but now based between there and London with her family, her Yorkshire roots are still hugely important to her. She talks to Sean about those roots, her struggles starting out as a singer, and why there need to be more roles for 60-year-old sopranos.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Voi che sapete - from the Marriage of Figaro
Singer: Lesley Garrett.- Silva Screen Records.
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Johann Strauss II
The Laughing Song - from Die Fledermaus
Singer: Lesley Garrett.- Silva Screen.
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Giacomo Puccini
Un bel di vedromo - from Madame Butterfly
Singer: Lesley Garrett.- Silva Screen.
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A North Country Lass
Singer: Lesley Garrett.- Music Infinity.
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Bedrich Smetana
Dance of the Comedians (The Bartered Bride)
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.- Chandos.
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Georges Bizet
Seguidilla - from Carmen
Singer: Lesley Garrett.- BMG.
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Georges Bizet
I could have danced all night - from My Fair Lady
Composer: Frederick Loewe. Singer: Lesley Garrett.- BMG.
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Joseph Canteloube
Ba茂l猫ro (Chants d'Auvergne Set 1)
Singer: Lesley Garrett. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Greenwood.- Diva! Lesley Garrett: A Soprano at the Movies.
- Silva Screen.
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Broadcast
- Christmas Eve 2016 12:15大象传媒 Radio 3