Sarah Walker
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker has had an eminent career singing on the world's great operatic, recital, and concert stages. She is known for her wide repertory and an engaging personality, which she invites fans to sample at her website. There you will see her memorable costume as Brittania, with which she stopped the show at a Last Night at the Proms concert. She has participated in such historic musical events as the Pavarotti 60th Birthday performance of La Fille du Regiment and Leonard Bernstein's Christmas 1989 performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Berlin to commemorate the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
She began music by studying violin and entered the Royal College of Music to continue those studies. While there, however, she got turned round into vocal studies with Madame Vera Rozsa and began to build up a widely varied repertory, which is now immense, and ranges from Bach and earlier Baroque composers to Birtwistle, Berio, Cage, Ives, and Henze.
Her operatic debut was at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Diana and Giove in Cavalli's La Calisto. Her debut role at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden was Charlotte in Massenet's Werther opposite the Alfredo Kraus. She was introduced to the audience of the Metropolitan in New York as Micah in Handel's Samson, with Jon Vickers as the Biblical muscle-man. She has sung at the operas of San Francisco, Lisbon, Chicago, Madrid, Paris, Geneva, Hamburg, Brussels, and many other cities.
She has over sixty roles in her active repertory. These cover three centuries of opera from Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Il Ritorno to Maxwell Davies' Taverner and Sallinen's The King Goes Forth to France. One of her longest operatic associations is with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. There she has sung Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress, Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes, the Sallinen and Maxwell Davies operas already mentioned, Handel's Samson, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and Filipievna in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. With the English National Opera, she has appeared as Mary Stuart, Charlotte, the Countess in Queen of Spades, as Queen Elizabeth in Britten's Gloriana, Katisha in The Mikado, and Cornelia in Julius Caesar.
Walker has recorded, concertized, and sung in recital extensively, appearing at all the major venues including London's Wigmore Hall and on major tours of the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and all the major European cities. She shares the insights gained in her professional career with numerous master classes, and admits to being somewhat obsessive in her hobbies and interests: She has over 300 pairs of earrings, collections of nineteenth century blue and white pottery, eighteenth century Liverpool porcelain, and modern British watercolors. A decision to learn Japanese led her into the collection of books, prints, and anything else connected with Kabuki theater, and Walker has admitted harboring a wish to sing Schubert's Winterreise in a kabuki staging. Walker's husband has stated that she should add her laptop computer and the Internet to the official list of her obsessions.
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Masur conducts Alexander Nevsky
Kurt Masur, Sarah Walker, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Cantates (wereldlijk) - Released by London Philharmonic Orchestra on 9 jul. 2021
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Brahms: Sonatas for Viola and Piano & Songs for Alto Voice, Viola and Piano
Paul Silverthorne, Julian Jacobson, Sarah Walker
Klassiek - Released by Meridian Records on 29 jan. 2007
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Henze: Voices
Hans Werner Henze, Sarah Walker, Paul Sperry, London Sinfonietta
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 3 dec. 1978
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Cabaret Songs: Britten, Gershwin, Dankworth & Others
Klassiek - Released by Meridian Records on 29 jan. 2007
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Brahms & Dvořák: Gypsy Songs
Klassiek - Released by Meridian Records on 4 jan. 2010
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Fauré: Mélodies Vol. IV
Klassiek - Released by CRD Records on 21 aug. 2000
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Fauré - Melodies Vol. III
Klassiek - Released by CRD Records on 1 jan. 1994
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Requiem, K. 626
Yvonne Kenny, William Kendall, Choir Of St. John's College, Cambridge, David Wilson-Johnson, Sarah Walker
Klassiek - Released by Chandos on 1 mei 2004
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De Falla: Love the Magician, Nights in the Gardens of Spain & Interlude and Spanish Dances
Geoffrey Simon, London Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Walker, Margaret Fingerhut
Symfonieën - Released by Chandos on 1 jan. 2005
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The Sea: 200 Years of Sea-Inspired Songs
Sarah Walker, Thomas Allen, Roger Vignoles
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 aug. 1987
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Duparc: Songs (Hyperion French Song Edition)
Sarah Walker, Thomas Allen, Roger Vignoles
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 12 jun. 1989
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Schubert: Hyperion Song Edition 8 – Schubert & the Nocturne, Vol. 2
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 25 dec. 1990
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Blah Blah Blah & Other Trifles: Cabaret Songs
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 apr. 1989
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Dave Smith - Piano Music
Klassiek - Released by tall guy records on 14 mrt. 2010
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Shakespeare's Kingdom: Song Settings from Schubert to Britten
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 jul. 1988
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Starry Night
Dance - Released by 4575468 Records DK on 17 dec. 2022
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Softer Dreams
Dance - Released by 4575468 Records DK on 9 dec. 2022
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