Patricia Rozario
Soprano Patricia Rozario has had remarkable sales of avant-garde vocal music.
As a child in Bombay, she was highly impressed by the music on her father's Western classical music records, particularly, she recalls, those of Maria Callas and Victoria de los Angeles. She learned light classical and popular songs and performed them socially and as a hobby. However, there was also a competitive music and drama festival in which she participated. Every year she and her brothers worked up a new pop or classical song, and often won. Her parents allowed her to go to England for her education and study music before returning to India to settle down, a plan she accepted. However, she says, from the moment she arrived "it was like an adventure unfolding."
She attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where her teacher was Walter Grüner. Recognizing her talent, and realizing she had not had a large or systematic exposure to the classical literature, he allowed her to sit in on senior level classes. She began to win prizes in student competitions, earning her another year's scholarship at the Guildhall. By the time she graduated, she had won the Guildhall School's Gold Medal and the Maggie Teyte Prize. Grüner assured her parents that she had true potential as a professional singer, and convinced them to give her time to develop a career.
She began singing professionally in England. In addition to singing the standard recital repertory, she sang frequently in early music productions and took a strong interest in contemporary works. An early appearance was in Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorida at the English National Opera, and also appeared at the Aix-en-Provence and Wexford Festivals, and with Opera North and the Glyndebourne Touring Opera.
In 1991, she auditioned for a part in John Tavener's new opera Maria Egiziaca (Mary of Egypt). He recognized in her voice "a unique spiritual and primordial quality that I have never been able to find in another singer." The drawback was that she lacked (she thought) the bottom notes in the part, down to G under middle C, which Tavener required to be sung strongly. She found that working on the opera opened this range to her naturally and comfortably.
After that project, she worked regularly with Tavener. She performed his Eternity's Sunrise, Apocalypse, and We shall see Him as He is at the BBC Proms, the world premiere of his Vlepondas at Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Agraphon at London's Barbican Centre. She starred in his massive work Fall and Resurrection, recording it for Chandos, and her recording of Eternity's Sunrise and other works of Tavener's on Hyperion had pop-hit sales figures. She premiered in Opera North's production of Simon Holt's The Nightingale's to Blame, and Arvo Pärt composed Como Anhela le Cierva for her.
She has recorded many of the works already mentioned, in addition to Haydn's Stabat Mater, Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, songs of Severac, Tavener's Svyati, several CDs in Graham Johnson's great complete Schubert song series on Hyperion, Handel's Almira, and the Gramophone Award-winning recording of John Casken's opera Golem. In 2001, she was honored with an OBE, and in 2011 she and her husband began Giving Voice to India, teaching western classical vocal music to Indian students. The organization produced Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with an all-Indian cast in 2014.
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21 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Tavener: Tears of the Angels
Clio Gould, Scottish Ensemble, Patricia Rozario
Classique - Paru chez Linn Records le 1 janv. 1998
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Symphonies n°. 3 "Pastorale" et n° 6
Brendan O'Brien, Patricia Rozario, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kees Bakels
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Naxos le 17 juin 1994
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John Tavener : The Veil of the Temple
Temple Church Choir, Patricia Rozario, The Holst Singers
Classique - Paru chez Signum Records le 22 mars 2005
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Rockets, Unto the Edges of Edges
Scanner, Michael Gira, Patricia Rozario
Électronique - Paru chez Bine Music le 27 avr. 2009
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Tavener: Total Eclipse & Agraphon
Academy of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin, John Harle, Patricia Rozario
Classique - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 7 nov. 2005
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Songs Of The Auvergne
Patricia Rozario, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard
Classique - Paru chez imp le 1 janv. 1990
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SOMERVELL: Shropshire Lad (The) / James Lee's Wife / Songs of Innocence (English Song, Vol. 2)
Christopher Maltman, Patricia Rozario, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Graham Johnson, Duke Quartet
Mélodies & Lieder - Paru chez Naxos le 30 sept. 2002
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Choral Settings of Kassiani
Cappella Romana, Patricia Rozario, Ann Manly, Alexander Lingas, English Chamber Choir, Guy Protheroe
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Naxos le 5 juill. 2011
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Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne
Patricia Rozario, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard
Classique - Paru chez imp le 1 janv. 1990
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Holst: Seven Part-Songs, A Choral Fantasia, A Dirge for Two Veterans & Ode to Death
Richard Hickox, City Of London Sinfonia, Patricia Rozario, Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphony Chorus
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez Chandos le 1 févr. 1996
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R. Strauss: Lieder
Classique - Paru chez Stone Records le 2 juin 2015
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Tavener: Eis Thanaton & Theophany
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mars 1996
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Spanish Songs
Classique - Paru chez SOMM Recordings le 8 sept. 2009
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Casken: Golem
Adrian Clarke, Patricia Rozario, John Hall, Christopher Robson, Music Projects London, Richard Bernas
Opéra - Paru chez NMC Recordings le 30 juin 2009
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Deidre Gribbin: Island People
Patricia Rozario, Loré Lixenberg, Rté Vanbrugh Quartet
Classique - Paru chez NMC Recordings le 11 mars 2012
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Joubert: Chamber & Instrumental Music
Brodsky Quartet, Patricia Rozario, John McCabe, David Chadwick, Anna Joubert, Mark Bebbington
Musique de chambre - Paru chez SOMM Recordings le 2 avr. 2007
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Grier: Around the Curve of the World
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez SOMM Recordings le 1 sept. 2000
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The Passion of Mary - Four Songs of the Nativity
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 30 mars 2010
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John Tavener: Lament for Jerusalem
Thomas Woods, Christopher Josey, Patricia Rozario
Classique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 18 sept. 2012
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Spanish Recital
Classique - Paru chez Collins Classics le 1 juill. 1992
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Lament for Jerusalem
Patricia Rozario, Christopher Josey
Classique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 18 sept. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo