Jane Manning [SEP] voice type
Jane Manning
Jane Marian Manning OBE (born 20 September 1938) is an English concert and opera soprano, writer on music, and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. She has been described by one critic as "the irrepressible, incomparable, unstoppable Ms. Manning – life and soul of British contemporary music"
In 1966, she married the composer Anthony Payne, but she does not use her married name professionally.
Early life.
The daughter of Gerald Manville Manning and Lily Manning (née Thompson
Snow Queen" (1992).
The critic, Ivan Hewett, has written of Manning:
For many people Jane Manning is simply the voice of contemporary classical music in this country. Anyone who took an interest in this burgeoning area of music in the 1970s and '80s grew up with the sound of her astonishing voice in their ears. It’s instantly recognisable, but it’s also a chameleon. Whether she’s faced with the pure angular leaps of Anton Webern, the throaty suggestiveness of Schoenberg or the black