Yvonne Howard studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. Early roles included the title role in La Cenerentola with English Touring Opera‚ Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro with both Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera‚ and Fricka and Waltraute in the highly acclaimed City of Birmingham Touring Opera Ring Saga.
In 1991 she made her debut with the Royal Opera Covent Garden as Mercedes Carmen. Since then she has been a regular visitor in such roles as Karolka Jenufa‚ Marcellina‚ 2nd Lady Die Zauberflöte‚ and Suzuki Madama Butterfly. During the 1997-98 season she sang Cornelia Giulio Cesare‚ Berta Il Barbière di Siviglia‚ Marcellina and a Flower Maiden and the Heavenly Voice in Parsifal.
Yvonne Howard is a regular guest at Opera North where roles include Maddalena Rigoletto‚ Eboli Don Carlos‚ Evadne Troilus and Cressida and Meg Page Falstaff. For English National Opera she has performed Amastris Xerxes‚ Meg Page‚ Berta and Third Lady. She has also appeared in Xerxes in Sao Paolo‚ Brazil‚ Die Walküre in Paris and Nantes and Falstaff and Madama Butterfly in Tel Aviv‚ as Eduige Rodelinda with Opera Theatre Company throughout Ireland‚ the UK and in New York‚ Azucena Il Trovatore in Ireland‚ Goffredo Rinaldo at Grange Park Opera‚ Amneris Aida at the Royal Albert Hall‚ Assunta The Saint of Bleecker Street at the Spoleto Festival‚ Ludmilla The Bartered Bride at the Royal Opera House‚ Leonore Fidelio at Opera Holland Park‚ the title role in Telemaco with the English Bach Festival in London and Athens and Dejanira Hercules at Buxton.
Concert and recital work has taken Yvonne to Japan‚ France‚ Spain‚ Scandinavia‚ Switzerland‚ USA and‚ of course‚ throughout Great Britain. She has received great critical acclaim for‚ in particular‚ her interpretation of the Angel in Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius‚ Verdi’s Requiem and the song cycles of Mahler and Berlioz as well as for her performance as Marilyn Klinghoffer in the TV film of John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer. She can be heard on CD in the Sweet Swan of Avon (Meridian)‚ Messiah (Arte Nova Classics)‚ Walton’s Troilus & Cressida‚ Moussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and Smetana’s The Bartered Bride (Chandos).
Recent engagements include Leonore Fidelio and Second Norn at the Royal Opera House‚ Irene Theodora in Strasbourg‚ Second Norn‚ Madam Larina and Marcellina at ENO‚ Third Lady at ENO and at the Royal Opera House‚ Meg Page The Merry Wives of Windsor‚ Mab The Fair Maid of Perth and Mrs Noye Noye’s Fludde at Buxton‚ Roxanna Panufnik’s The Hare and the Tortoise with City of London Sinfonia‚ Laura La Gioconda and Sara Roberto Devereaux at Opera Holland Park‚ The Innkeeper Boris Godunov at ENO‚ Norma with English Touring Opera‚ Estelle/Emerance in Messager’s Veronique at Buxton and Auntie Peter Grimes‚ Hippolyta A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Gertrude Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth at Opera North. This season’s and future plans include Mother in Swanhunter‚ Jonathan Dove’s new commission for Opera North‚ Myrtle Knight Crew at Glyndebourne‚ Leonore Fidelio at Opera Holland Park‚ Mrs Grose Turn of the Screw and Fricka Das Rheingold (concert) with Opera North‚ the Mother in Hansel and Gretel at the Royal Opera House and Azucena Il Trovatore at Den Jyske Opera‚ Denmark.
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