WATSON, JANICE Janice Watson studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and first came to prominence as winner of the Kathleen Ferrier memorial award. In opera she has sung Pamina with the Paris Opéra; Vitellia for the Flanders Opera; Strauss’s Daphne, Arabella, Salome and Mozart’s Elettra (Idomeneo) at the Santa Fe Festival; Daphne, Arabella and Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) with the San Francisco Opera; Pamina, Countess Almaviva and Arabella at the Bavarian State Opera; Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) at the Vienna State Opera, Netherlands Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Britten’s Gloriana under Richard Hickox at the Aldeburgh Festival; Countess Almaviva for the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin and in Tokyo, Micaela at both the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera, and both Countess Almaviva and Liù at the Metropolitan Opera. She has been a regular guest with both English National Opera (most recently as the Marschallin and Madama Butterfly) and Welsh National Opera (most recently as Strauss’s Ariadne).
She returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Jennifer (The Midsummer Marriage) returned to the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin as Salome and sang Kat’á Kabanová both for the Royal Opera and in her début at La Scala, Milan.
Her concerts include the Boston Symphony Orchestra under both Norrington and Previn, the San Francisco Symphony under Tilson-Thomas, the London Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis, Previn and Chailly, the Orchestre de Paris under Brüggen, the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields under Marriner, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Haitink and both the Chicago Symphony and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras under Riccardo Chailly.
Janice Watson’s many recordings include Orff’s Carmina Burana for Virgin Classics, Poulenc’s Gloria for Chandos and Howells’ Missa Sabrinensis under Rozhdestvensky. She recorded Ellen Orford under Richard Hickox for Chandos (for which she received a Grammy Award) and with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis on the LSO Live label; Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream under Sir Colin Davis for Philips Classics and the title rôle in Jenûfa under Sir Charles Mackerras for Chandos. She sang A Streetcar Named Desire under André Previn with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic in Oslo and Vienna and in the new production at the Theater an der Wien.
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