FRANCES CHAMBERS, Lyric Coloratura Soprano
.
Voice 1966 — 1974 Miss Elsie Findlay, Sydney 1975 — 1980 Miss Vida Harford, London 1980 — 1982 Mrs Madeleine Finden, London 1984 Miss Myra Lambert, Sydney Operatic Studies 1971-1973 1975-1977 Roles Performed Professionally
or to Professional Standards For Sydney Opera Company Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor 1972 Micaela Carmen } Violetta La Traviata } 1973 Olympia Tales of Hoffman } For Young Opera (Australia) — Ten-week
tour of New South Wales under auspices of Arts Council of Australia
(1972) Serpina La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi) Rita Rita (Donizetti) For Cameo Group, Sydney — including
performances for Sydney Opera House Trust (1974) Serpina La Serva Padrona Scots Lass Tale for a Deaf Ear (Mark Bucci) At N.S.W. Conservatorium Gretel Hansel & Gretel (Humperdinck)
1971 Oscar Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) 1972 Match Girl, The Happy Prince Sickly Son (Malcolm Williamson) 1972 Susanna Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) 1973 At London Opera Centre Female Mourner Alceste (Lully) 1975/7 Felice School for Fathers (Wolf-Ferrari)
1976 Cardella Il Fratello Innamorato (Pergolesi)
1976 Christine Le Testament de Tante Caroline
(Roussel) 1977 For London Chamber Opera Group 1976 Sidonia L'Astarto (Buononcini) For Opera Buffa, London — for Malvern
Festival (covers) 1977 Margot, Fanchon Les Troqueurs (d'Auvergne) For English Bach Festival — Versailles
1979 CÈphise Pygmalion (Rameau) For Rockdale Opera Company — Sydney
1986 Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Mozart) Other Roles Studied
in Depth Pamina, Queen of Night Magic Flute (Mozart) Madam Herz Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart) Constanze Die Entf¸hrung aus dem Serail
(Mozart) Vitellia La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart) * Norma Norma (Donizetti) Gilda Rigoletto (Verdi) Alice Ford Falstaff (Verdi) — with
Reri Grist at L.O.C. Marguerite Faust (Gounod) Flaminia Il Mondo della Luna (Haydn) * Fiordiligi Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart) } —
with Sesto Bruscantini Nella Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) } at L.O.C. Lady Billows Albert Herring (Britten) —
with Peter Pears at L.O.C. * with B.B.C. Academy Orchestra, Bristol, for
L.O.C. With Hounslow
Choral Society and Southern Sinfonietta Requiem (Verdi)
1976 Missa Solemnis
(Beethoven) 1977 With
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse Exsultate Jubilate
(Mozart) For
English Bach Festival Mass: Assumpta est
Maria (Marc-Antoine Charpentier) With
Choir of Desborough School, Maidenhead, and Handel Sinfonia, at
St. Margaret's, Westminster 1979 Coronation Mass,
K.317 (Mozart) With
Western Sinfonia and Choral Society Creation (Haydn)
1984 Nelson Mass (Haydn)
1985 Christ on the Mount
of Olives (Beethoven) 1985 For
Shore School (North Sydney) Centenary Celebrations
- 1989 Nelson Mass (Haydn) With
Taverner Consort, Sydney Ich hatte viel Bek¸mmernis
— BWV 21 (Bach) 1995 Television
and Radio Eight Australia-wide
television appearances Showcase (1970/73/74), including
live broadcast of 1973 Grand Final, for Crawford Productions,
Melbourne. Associated five-week tour of Australia with Showcase
grand finalists — 1973. Several ten-minute radio
recitals for Australian Broadcasting Commission Young Australia
programme. Half-hour French song
recital recorded for Australian Broadcasting Commission, December
1977 (broadcast July 1978). Twenty-minute recital
of French song and interview for Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio National In Tempo programme — November 1988. Commercial
recordings Soloist in La Princesse
de Navarre (Rameau), for Erato, with English Bach Festival
Singers and E.B.F. Baroque Orchestra, cond. Nicholas McGegan (cat.
no. STU 71283). As
a Member of the Chorus of the Australian Opera (May
1983 — September 1986) Covers: Countess Marriage
of Figaro (Mozart) Golda Fiddler on
the Roof Sundry Runner-up in Sydney
Sun (1972) and Canberra Shell (1974) aria competitions. Engaged by Chandris
Lines as entertainer for Sydney—San Juan (Puerto Rico) voyage
of liner Britanis, November-December 1974. Also six-week
engagement on P & O Canberra, 1978. Participant in London
series of master classes in French song by Pierre Bernac, including
final public session for selected singers at Purcell Room, March
1977 Invited by M Bernac
and granted scholarship to participate in summer school of AcadÈmie
International de Musique Maurice Ravel, St-Jean-de-Luz, September
1977. Adjudicator vocal sections
Music Illawarra and Music Teachers' Association (Wollongong Branch)
Young Musicians Competition, Wollongong, 1989. Recital for British
Music Society of Victoria, Melbourne, October 1992. Adjudicator Rockhampton
Eisteddfod, 1993 Adjudicator Taree and
Gulgong Eisteddfodau, 1994 Currently (1997) teaching
from home, plus two days a week at the Warringah Academy of Music
and the Arts, Brookvale. Commenced conducting
The Village Choir, attached to Lane Cove Music and Arts Centre,
1996. Recent recitals include
50th anniversary concert for Mosman Music Club, plus Hunters Hill
Music Club, March 1997.
New South Wales State Conservatorium Opera School.
Principal, Ronald Jackson
London Opera Centre. Principal, James Robertson. (Granted
scholarship by Friends of Covent Garden and Ralph Vaughan Williams
Trust for 1976-77 studies)
(including some performed in workshop or similar circumstances)
Oratorio,
etc. (as soloist)
(Cond. Paul Bowen)
(cond. Michel Plasson) for AcadÈmie Internationale de
Musique Maurice Ravel, St-Jean-de-Luz 1977
London and Chapel Royal, Versailles — 1979
Sydney - cond. Bransby Byrne
Cond. Keith Mitchell
cond. Sandy Newman
