Lauren Fagan
Soprano from Australia - 31 years old
I was born in Sydney and studied at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I’m a recent graduate of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House.
I’ve sung Violetta (La traviata) and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) for Opera Holland Park, Musetta (La bohème) for Welsh National Opera, Roxana (Szymanowski’s King Roger) under Sir Antonio Pappano with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi.
On the concert platform I’ve sung Strauss’ Four Last Songs with Malmö Opera and the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music at the Last Night of the 大象传媒 Proms, Anitrain Peer Gynt with Orchestre National de Lyon, and Agnès in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin with the Melos Sinfonia.
This season, I returned to the Royal Opera House as Woglinde in Der Ring des Nibelungen, as well as making my role debut as Alcina at the Internationale Händel-Festspiele in Karlsruhe. Concert performances include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Symphoniker Hamburg and Oslo Philharmonic, as well as Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Further ahead, I make my role debuts as Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito) and Mimì (La bohème).
I love running, reading and playing with our golden retrievers back home in Sydney.
Lauren Fagan
Soprano, 31 oed, Awstralia
Cefais fy ngeni yn Sydney ac astudiais yn Ysgol Cerdd a Drama’r Guildhall yn Llundain. Rydw i wedi graddio’n ddiweddar o Raglen Artistiaid Ifanc Jette Parker yn y T欧 Opera Brenhinol.
Rydw i wedi canu Violetta (La traviata) a Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) ar gyfer Opera Holland Park, Musetta (La bohème) ar gyfer Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru, Roxana (King Roger gan Szymanowski) o dan arweiniad Syr Antonio Pappano gydag Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, a Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni NHK o dan arweiniad Paavo Järvi.
Mewn cyngherddau, rydw i wedi canu Four Last Songs gan Strauss gyda Malmö Opera a Cherddorfa Symffoni Xi’an, Serenade to Music gan Vaughan Williams yn Noson Olaf Proms y 大象传媒, Anitrayn Peer Gynt gydag Orchestre National de Lyon, ac Agnès yn Written on Skin gan George Benjamin gyda’r Melos Sinfonia.
Y tymor yma, rydw i wedi dychwelyd i’r T欧 Opera Brenhinol fel Woglinde yn Der Ring des Nibelungen, a pherfformio am y tro cyntaf fel Alcina yn yr Internationale Händel-Festspiele yn Karlsruhe. Mae fy mherfformiadau mewn cyngherddau’n cynnwys 9fed Symffoni Beethoven gyda Symphoniker Hamburg ac Oslo Philharmonic, yn ogystal ag A Child of Our Time gan Tippett gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni Bournemouth. Yn y dyfodol, byddaf yn mynd ati am y tro cyntaf i chwarae rhannau Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito) a Mimì (La bohème).
Rydw i’n mwynhau rhedeg a darllen. Gartref yn Sydney mae gennym adargwn melyn, a byddaf wrth fy modd yn chwarae gyda nhw!
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Lauren Fagan (soprano) from Australia - ROUND 1 2019
Lauran Fagan performs "Senza Mamma" from Suor Angelica by Puccini
Repertoire
Main Prize | Concert | |
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Ma quando tornerai | Alcina | Handel |
Senza Mamma | Suor Angelica | Puccini |
No word from Tom | The Rake鈥檚 Progress | Stravinsky |
Song Prize | Recital 4 | |
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Ganymed | D544 | Schubert |
I thought I heard a magpie call | Alfred Hill | |
A little town I love | Alfred Hill | |
Meinem Kinde | Op 37 No 3 | Richard Strauss |
Das Rosenband | Op 36 No 1 | Richard Strauss |
颁盲肠颈濒颈别 | Op 27 No 2 | Richard Strauss |
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