Heather Harper CBE is an Irish operatic soprano. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she received her early musical training. She studied piano at the Trinity College of Music in London, with voice as a second subject, and sang with the BBC chorus. Her professional debut came in 1954 in Medea at the Oxford University Opera Club. From 1956 to 1975, she was a member of the English Opera Group.

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  • Heather Harper CBE is an Irish operatic soprano. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she received her early musical training. She studied piano at the Trinity College of Music in London, with voice as a second subject, and sang with the BBC chorus. Her professional debut came in 1954 in Medea at the Oxford University Opera Club. From 1956 to 1975, she was a member of the English Opera Group. She is noted for her performance of Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, the title role in Strauss's Arabella, Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes, and the Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw. Harper has also had an extensive concert career, including singing in the premiere of Britten's War Requiem in 1962, famously substituting for Galina Vishnevskaya on 10 days' notice. She appeared at Covent Garden, Bayreuth, San Francisco and the Metropolitan Opera (Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and in Peter Grimes). At the Belfast Last Night of the Proms in 1985, she gave the world première of Malcolm Williamson's song-cycle Next Year in Jerusalem to international critical acclaim. Her recordings include Peter Grimes in both audio and video formats, as well as the War Requiem (Chandos). More recently, a live concert performance of Britten's Our Hunting Fathers has been issued on the London Philharmonic Orchestra's own label.
  • Dame Heather Mary Harper DBE on irlantilainen sopraano. Harper syntyi Belfastissa, Pohjois-Irlannissa. Hän aloitti opintonsa siellä ja opiskeli myöhemmin pianonsoittoa Lontoon Trinity College of Musicissa. Laulunopetusta hän sai Helen Iseppiltä ja Frederic Huslerilta. Harperin ensimmäinen ammattiesiintyminen oli roolissa Giuseppe Verdin oopperassa Macbeth Oxford University Opera Clubilla. Hän pääsi myöhemmin mm. Covent Gardeniin ja New Yorkin Metropolitan-oopperaan. Hänet nähtiin myös Bayreuthin oopperajuhlilla. Harper on nyt vetäytynyt laulajanuraltaan, mutta toiminut mm. Royal College of Musicin professorina.
  • ヘザー・ハーパー（Heather Harper CBE, 1930年5月8日 - ）は、北アイルランド・ベルファスト出身のソプラノ歌手。 ピアノをロンドンのトリニティ・カレッジ・オブ・ミュージック（Trinity College of Music）で学ぶ。副科で声楽を同校で学ぶと共にBBCコーラスに参加した。1954年にプロデビューして以後、伯爵夫人（『フィガロの結婚』）、エルザ（『ローエングリン』）、『アラベラ』のタイトルロールやエレン・オーフォード（『ピーター・グライムズ』）を当たり役とし、コヴェント・ガーデンやバイロイト、メトロポリタン歌劇場など欧米の大歌劇場に出演した。 ブリテンの『戦争レクイエム』の初演時には、渡英不能となったガリーナ・ヴィシネフスカヤの代演を、10日の猶予期間で務め上げたことでも知られる。
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  • Heather Harper CBE is an Irish operatic soprano. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she received her early musical training. She studied piano at the Trinity College of Music in London, with voice as a second subject, and sang with the BBC chorus. Her professional debut came in 1954 in Medea at the Oxford University Opera Club. From 1956 to 1975, she was a member of the English Opera Group.
  • Dame Heather Mary Harper DBE on irlantilainen sopraano. Harper syntyi Belfastissa, Pohjois-Irlannissa. Hän aloitti opintonsa siellä ja opiskeli myöhemmin pianonsoittoa Lontoon Trinity College of Musicissa. Laulunopetusta hän sai Helen Iseppiltä ja Frederic Huslerilta. Harperin ensimmäinen ammattiesiintyminen oli roolissa Giuseppe Verdin oopperassa Macbeth Oxford University Opera Clubilla. Hän pääsi myöhemmin mm. Covent Gardeniin ja New Yorkin Metropolitan-oopperaan.
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  • Heather Harper
  • Heather Harper
  • ヘザー・ハーパー
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