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Name
  
Helen Watts

Education
  
Royal Academy of Music

Role
  
Contralto

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Died
  
October 7, 2009, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

Albums
  
Beethoven: Mass In C Major / Bruckner: Motets

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Helen Watts CBE (7 December 1927 – 7 October 2009) was a Welsh contralto.

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She was born in Milford Haven, Wales, and educated at the Abbots Bromley School for Girls and at the Royal Academy of Music. She began her career with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, and was a regular broadcaster on the Welsh Home Service. She subsequently had a distinguished career as an opera singer. In 1978 she was awarded the CBE.

Watts died on 7 October 2009 at the age of 81. Watts's husband Michael Mitchell, a viola player, died in 2007.

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Literature

  • D. Brook, Singers of Today (Revised Edition - Rockliff, London 1958), pp. 198–200.
  • Songs

    Cantata No 53 - BWV 53: Schlage doch - gewunschte Stunde
    St Matthew Passion BWV 244 - No 47: Erbarme dich - mein Gott
    Cantata Academica Op 62: Part II: VIII Docendi ac discendi aequitati
    Litaniae Lauretanae - K 195: III Salus infirmorum
    Chorale: Ertot uns durch dein Gute
    Missa in Angustiis "Nelson Mass" - Hob XXII11 in D Minor: Benedictus
    Wagner: Die Walkure / Act 3 - La Walkyrie: La chevauchee des walkyries
    Sosarme - HWV 30 - Act III: Ah Padre!
    Cantata academica - Op 62: Part I - Corale - Alla Rovescio - Recitativo - Arioso - Duettino - Recitativo - Scherzo
    Recitative: Ich fuhle schon im Geist
    Handel: Jubilate - Be ye sure that the Lord he is God
    Bekennen will ich seinen Namen - BWV 200
    Recitative: So klage - du zerstorte Gottesstadt
    Mitridate - Re di Ponto: Act I - "Teme Ismene a ragion"
    Recitative: Zwar fuhlt mein schwaches Herz
    Aria: Dein Wetter zog sich auf von weitem
    Aria: Mein leztes Lager will mich schrecken
    Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben - BWV 147 - Part I - I Chorus
    Sinfonie Nr 9 in d-Moll - Op 125: IV Presto - Allegro assai - "Ode an die Freude"
    Recitative: Wohlan! mein Herze legt Zorn - Zank und Zwietracht hin
    Das Neugeborne Kindelein - Bwv 122: Trio With Chorale: Ist Gott Versohnt
    Aria: Wie zittern und wanken
    Aria: Seht - seht! wie reisst - wie bricht - wie fallt
    Sosarme - HWV 30 - Act I: Si - si - minaccia
    Requiem in D minor - K 626: IVa Offertorium: "Domine Jesu"
    Recitative: Des Hochsten Gute wird von Tag zu Tage neu
    Chorale: Dahero Trotz der Hollen Heer!
    Recitative: Erhohtes Fleisch und Blut
    Wagner: Die Walkure / Dritter Aufzug - "Hojotoho! Heiaha!"
    Recitative: Die Armen sind verstort
    La Wally:
    Recitative: Ich bin von Seufzen mude

    References

    Helen Watts Wikipedia