Margaret Marshall

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Born: January 4, 1949 - Stirling, Scotland The Scottish soprano, Margaret (Anne) Marshall, studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and in Glasgow. She also took lessons with Edna Mitchell and Peter Pears in England and with Hans Hotter in Munich. Miss Marshall won international recognition when she was awarded the first prize at the International Competition in Munich in 1974. This was followed by concerts throughout Europe and Margaret Marshall's recital début at the Wigmore Hall in 1975. She made her Festival Hall début singing in J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (BWV 245) in 1976. She has now worked with all the major British orchestras, and appears regularly with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Abroad she has appeared with, among others, the Orchestre de Paris, Berliner Philharmoniker, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Orchestra under such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti. In 1978 Margaret Marshall made her operatic début in Florence singing Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo conducted by Riccardo Muti. She then sang the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro again with Riccardo Muti in and made her Covent Garden debut in London in the same role in 1980, and made her Covent Garden debut in London in the same role in 1980. She has performed the same work at La Scala Milan, with English National Opera, Scottish Opera

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