Evans, Anne
Evans, Anne
Evans, Anne, esteemed English soprano; b. London, Aug. 20, 1941. She was a student of Ruth Packer at the Royal Coll. of Music in London and of Maria Carpi, Herbert Graf, and Lofti Mansouri at the Geneva Cons. After singing secondary roles at the Geneva Grand Theatre, she returned to London in 1968 to join the Sadler’s Wells Opera (later the English National Opera), where she was notably successful in such roles as Mimi, Tosca, Elsa, the Marschallin, and Sieglinde; she also appeared with the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff as Senta, Chrysothemis, the Empress, Donna Anna, and Brunnhilde (1985). Her Brunnhilde elicited critical acclaim when the company visited London’s Covent Garden in 1986, which role she also sang at the Bayreuth Festival for the first time in 1989. On Feb. 6, 1992, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in N.Y. as Elisabeth in Tannhauser. In 1993 she appeared as Isolde with the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, and then with the company at London’s Covent Garden. She appeared as the Marschallin at the English National Opera in 1994. In 1996 she sang Brunnhilde at Covent Garden. She portrayed Isolde at the Semper Opera in Dresden in 1997.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire