ELIZABETH WATTS soprano

SIOBHAIN O'HIGGINS piano

A programme of opera and song by Mozart and his contemporaries

We welcome Norwich born Elizabeth Watts back to NNMF at Wells Maltings with pianist Siobhain O’Higgins. In a typically imaginative programme, Liz will combine arias from Mozart operas Cosi fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo and Le nozze di Figaro and two concert arias and Exultate Jubilate, with songs by Haydn, Viennese composer Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824), the Bath born Sir Thomas Linley (1759-1824) and Schubert, including An die Musik.

ELIZABETH WATTS soprano

Elizabeth Watts was born in Norwich where she was a chorister at Norwich Cathedral. She shot to international fame when she won the song prize at the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition and later as winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2016. Since then, she has sung all over the world in opera, concerts and recitals.

This summer she sang the role of Aspasia in Mozart’s Mitridate, re del ponto at Garsington Opera and The First Lady in Die Zauberflöte at the Edinburgh International Festival and gave a recital at the Bath Mozart Festival.

Future engagements include performances of Finzi’s Dies Natalis with the Britten Sinfonia at the Barbican and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall.

SIOBHAIN O’HIGGINS piano

Pianist and vocal coach Siobhain O’Higgins studied at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she won the Accompanist’s Prize during her two year period there. She ran the Opera Course at Birkbeck College, London for several years.