Dame Gwyneth Jones
Dame Gwyneth Jones

Dame Gwyneth Jones

Welsh operatic soprano

Dame Gwyneth Jones is a Welsh operatic soprano. She released the album Mendelssohn: Elijah featuring Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Janet Baker. The album includes popular songs such as Elijah, Op. 70, MWV A25, Pt. 1: No. 2, Duet with Choir. Jones has also performed Now Cherith's Brook Is Dried Up, Elijah, Op. 70, MWV A25, Pt. 1: No. 8, Recitative, Aria and Duet with Fischer-Dieskau and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Rafael Fruehbeck De Burgos. She released R. Strauss: Elektra Op. 58 with Jeffrey Tate and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and Verdi - Otello with John Barbirolli and the Ambrosian Opera Chorus. She later appeared in the film Quartet with Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon in 2013.

About

FROM
Pontnewynydd, Wales
BORN
November 7, 1936
GENRE
Classical