Ann Murray

Ann Murray
Ann Murray, DBE
Background information
Birth name	Ann Murray
Born	August 27 1949 (1949--) (age 58)
Origin	Dublin Ireland
Genre(s)	Classical
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instrument(s)	Mezzo-Soprano

Ann Murray, DBE is an Irish mezzo-soprano. She was born on August 27, 1949 in Dublin. She studied with Frederick Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste in 1974. She has since sung at all major opera houses and is highly acclaimed in works by George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Richard Strauss.

Ms. Murray performs mainly at Covent Garden (where she performed as Siphare in Mitridate Rè di Ponto), the English National Opera, and the Bavarian State Opera (where she was made Kammersängerin in 1998). Ms. Murray was the featured singer in volume three of the Hyperion Schubert Edition, Hyperion Records' complete Franz Schubert lieder project, in 1988, led by pianist Graham Johnson. As a non-British citizen, she was made an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to music in 2002. She is married to English tenor Philip Langridge.

External links

• Short biography at Bach-Cantatas.com
• Artist page at Hyperion Records.
• Artist page at Askonas Holt Ltd.

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