Harrhy, Eiddwen (Mair)
Harrhy, Eiddwen (Mair)
Harrhy, Eiddwen (Mair), Welsh soprano; b. Trowbridge, England, April 14, 1949. She studied at the Royal Manchester Coll. of Music, where she sang Mozart’s Despina in 1970. After further training in London and Paris, she made her formal operatic debut as Mozart’s Ilia in Oxford in 1974. That same year she appeared at London’s Covent Garden as Wellgunde. In 1977 she made her first appearance at the English National Opera in London as Adele in Le Comte Ory. She sang for the first time at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1979 as Diana in La Fedeltà premiata. In 1986 she sang Berg’s Marie at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff and made her U.S. debut in Los Angeles as Morgana in Handel’s Alcina. She returned to the English National Opera in 1989 to create the role of Marian Singleton in Blake’s The Plumber’s Gift, and also appeared at the London Promenade Concerts. In 1991 she sang Hecuba in King Priam with Opera North in Leeds. She appeared in Owen Wingrave at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1997.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire