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- Agnes Nicholls (Cheltenham, Anglaterra, 14 de juliol de 1877 - Londres, 21 de setembre de 1959) fou una cantant anglesa. El 1894 era becària del Royal College of Music de Londres, allà estudià cant amb , i debutà a l'escena amb molt d'èxit en el Lyceum Theatre, el 1895. Posseïdora d'una bella veu de soprano, cultivà el teatre durant molts anys, actuant sovint al Covent Garden de Londres i en tots els principals teatres d'òpera anglesos, formant part de les companyies de Thomas Beecham i . La seva més sòlida reputació l'adquirí com a cantant de concerts i oratoris. Va prendre part en tots els festivals importants celebrats a Anglaterra, així com en les sèries de concerts dirigits per Richter i Weingartner a Londres. Les parts de soprano de les obres corals de foren escrites per a ella, el mateix que el dècim quadern d'English Lyrics del referit compositor. En la primera audició del poema d'Elgar, , estrenà la part de la Verge. La seva última presentació publica fou el 1904, en ocasió dels Jubilee Concerts celebrats en el Crystal Palace. (ca)
- Agnes Helen Nicholls (14 July 1876 – 21 September 1959) was one of the greatest English sopranos of the 20th century, both in the concert hall and on the operatic stage. Born in Cheltenham, Nicholls was the daughter of a director of Cavendish House, a prestigious store in the town. She received her early education at Bedford High School where she started singing lessons with Dr H. Alfred Harding. In 1894, she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where her teacher was Albert Visetti. During her student years she took the part of Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and sang three times in front of Queen Victoria at private functions. Nicholls' voice matured into an impressive, dramatic-sized instrument. Her operatic roles ranged from major Wagner and Mozart parts through to the Dewman in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. Among her celebrated Wagnerian assumptions were Venus in Tannhäuser, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Brünnhilde in Siegfried. In 1908, she participated in a notable production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, led by the eminent Hans Richter. Nicholls sang with the Quinlan Opera Company during its 1912 tour of Australia. She was a frequent performer at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden until 1924, and was a principal of the British National Opera Company, appearing under the baton of Sir Thomas Beecham and other leading conductors of the day. In 1904, she married the conductor-composer, Hamilton Harty, who was to become famous as the director of the Hallé Orchestra. Harty was knighted in 1925 and Nicholls was styled subsequently as Lady Harty. He had frequently accompanied her on piano at song recitals, but his health deteriorated in the 1930s, and he and his wife became estranged. Harty died in 1941. As well as being a conductor, Harty was a composer, and Nicholls was the debut soloist in one of his compositions, Ode to a Nightingale, which was heard at the 1907 Cardiff Festival. This work was repeated the same year at The Proms in London's Albert Hall. As well as performing in opera and delivering songs, Nicholls sang in many oratorios, including Parry's Judith and Bach's St Matthew Passion. Sir Henry Wood, the conductor and impresario, described her as "a great artist with a beautiful voice (which) seemed to have been made for Bach's arias". Nicholls died in London, aged 82, but her pure, strong, well-trained and steady voice can still be heard on a handful of gramophone recordings of songs and arias which she made between circa 1909 and circa 1921. These have been remastered and reissued on CD in recent years (most comprehensively by Truesound Transfers, catalogue number TT-3041). Unfortunately, none of her Bach, Mozart or Wagner interpretations figure in her short discography. The pre-1925 acoustic recording process found it difficult to capture powerful voices such as the one possessed by Nicholls and, according to discographers, she refused to approve most of her discs for public release because of their inadequate sound. (en)
- Agnes Nicholls (14 juillet 1876 [certaines sources disent 1877] – 21 septembre 1959), est l'une des plus grandes sopranos anglaise du 20e siècle, à la fois en concert et sur scène à l'opéra. (fr)
- Agnes Nicholls (Cheltenham, 14 luglio 1876 – Londra, 21 settembre 1959) è stata un soprano inglese, uno dei più grandi soprani del XX secolo, sia in concerto che a teatro. (it)
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- Agnes Nicholls (14 juillet 1876 [certaines sources disent 1877] – 21 septembre 1959), est l'une des plus grandes sopranos anglaise du 20e siècle, à la fois en concert et sur scène à l'opéra. (fr)
- Agnes Nicholls (Cheltenham, 14 luglio 1876 – Londra, 21 settembre 1959) è stata un soprano inglese, uno dei più grandi soprani del XX secolo, sia in concerto che a teatro. (it)
- Agnes Nicholls (Cheltenham, Anglaterra, 14 de juliol de 1877 - Londres, 21 de setembre de 1959) fou una cantant anglesa. El 1894 era becària del Royal College of Music de Londres, allà estudià cant amb , i debutà a l'escena amb molt d'èxit en el Lyceum Theatre, el 1895. Posseïdora d'una bella veu de soprano, cultivà el teatre durant molts anys, actuant sovint al Covent Garden de Londres i en tots els principals teatres d'òpera anglesos, formant part de les companyies de Thomas Beecham i . (ca)
- Agnes Helen Nicholls (14 July 1876 – 21 September 1959) was one of the greatest English sopranos of the 20th century, both in the concert hall and on the operatic stage. Born in Cheltenham, Nicholls was the daughter of a director of Cavendish House, a prestigious store in the town. She received her early education at Bedford High School where she started singing lessons with Dr H. Alfred Harding. In 1894, she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where her teacher was Albert Visetti. During her student years she took the part of Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and sang three times in front of Queen Victoria at private functions. (en)
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