Elizabeth Harwood [SEP] voice type
Elizabeth Harwood
Elizabeth Harwood (27 May 1938 – 21 June 1990) was an English lyric soprano. After a music school, she enjoyed an operatic career lasting for over two decades and worked with such conductors as Colin Davis and Herbert von Karajan. She was one of the few English singers of her generation to be invited to sing in productions at the Salzburg Festival and La Scala, Milan, as well as at the Metropolitan Opera.
After early performances at Glyndebourne and five years at Sadler's Wells Opera Company in
. One of her later appearances was at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1986, in a programme including Schubert Lieder. Her final public performance was in November 1989 at the Bath Festival.
In 1966, she married the businessman Julian A. C. Royle, a publisher of greetings cards. They had one son, Nicholas.
Harwood died at her home in Fryerning, Essex, England in 1990, aged 52, from cancer. "The Musical Times" wrote of her, "Elizabeth Harwood's lovely, warm voice,