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30/07/2010
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| Della Jones |
| Mezzo-soprano Della Jones’s wide repertoire ranges from early music to contemporary. She was born in Neath, South Wales and studied at the Royal College of Music, where she won many prizes including the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship. She has performed with all the major British opera companies, with engagements throughout Europe and the US, Russia and Japan. She is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV and in 1993 made an acclaimed appearance at the Last Night of the Proms. An extensive recording career has included frequent work for Opera Rara: Donizetti’s L’Assedio di Calais, Maria Padilla and Ugo Conte di Parigi; Meyerbeer’s Il Crociato in Egitto and Dinorah; Rossini’s Ricciardo e Zoraide; the recital disc Della Jones Sings Donizetti; and all three volumes of A Hundred Years of Italian Opera |
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Full-length opera - Ugo Conte di Parigi
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Full-length opera - Dinorah
A fascinating recording - PETER DAVIES, New York Times Recommended - Gramaphone Classical Good CD Guide
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Full-length opera - Maria Padilla
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Anthologies - A Hundred Years of Italian Opera 1820-1830
A privileged glimpse into a forgotten world - JOHN FREEMAN, Opera News
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Medieval Mayhem
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Donizetti - Della Jones Sings Donizetti
Della Jones brings an attractively warm vocal timbre and a superb coloratura technique to every piece - CHARLES OSBORNE, Gramophone
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Collections - The Opera Rara Collection - Volume 1
A feast and a temptation to the ears - DAVID JOHNSON, Fanfare
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Collections - The Opera Rara Collection - Volume 2
A feast and a temptation to the ears - DAVID JOHNSON, Fanfare
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Meyerbeer - Meyerbeer in Italy
This compilation from the six operas Meyerbeer wrote in Italy shows him not only as a deft disciple of Rossini, but also as a composer of real dramatic flair and musical inventiveness. The weeks essen
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Vocal Teamwork
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