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Dame Gwyneth Jones, DBE (born 7 November 1936) is a Welsh dramatic soprano. ==Early life and career== Jones was born in Pontnewynydd, Wales. Before becoming a professional singer, she worked as a secretary at the Pontypool foundry. She studied music at the Royal College of Music, London, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena) as well as the International Opera Studio (Zürich). After making her professional debut in 1962 as a mezzo-soprano in Gluck's opera ''Orfeo ed Euridice'', she was engaged by the Zurich Opera House. She discovered that her easy top range could enable her to sing soprano roles and she switched to the soprano repertoire from around 1964, her first major soprano role being Amelia in Verdi's ''Un ballo in maschera''. Jones came to prominence in 1964 when she stood in for Leontyne Price as Leonora in Verdi's ''Il trovatore'' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Her career then developed rapidly, and she met with success as Aïda, Leonore (in ''Fidelio''), Desdemona (in ''Otello''), Elisabeth (in ''Don Carlos''), Donna Anna (in ''Don Giovanni''), Cio-cio-san (in ''Madama Butterfly''), Lady Macbeth (in Verdi's ''Macbeth''), Santuzza (in ''Cavalleria rusticana''), Octavian (in ''Der Rosenkavalier''), Médée (in the Italian version) and Tosca. From these, she gradually proceeded to heavier roles like Chrysothemis (in ''Elektra''), Salome, the Marschallin (in ''Der Rosenkavalier''), Eva (in ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''), Senta (in ''Der fliegende Holländer''), Kundry (in ''Parsifal''), both Venus and Elisabeth (in ''Tannhäuser''), Helena (in Strauss's ''Die ägyptische Helena''), Ariadne (in ''Ariadne auf Naxos'') and Sieglinde, as well as Brünnhilde (in ''Die Walküre''). She has appeared frequently at almost every major opera house in the world, including the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the San Francisco Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Paris Opéra, the Teatro alla Scala, the Los Angeles Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as well as many prominent opera and music festivals. She made her debut at Teatro alla Scala as Leonora in ''Il Trovatore'' on 4 April 1967. She returned to La Scala as the title role of ''Salome'' in January 1974. On 24 November 1972, she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House of New York as Sieglinde in ''Die Walküre''. Until her last appearance at the Met on 22 April 1995 (as Kundry in ''Parsifal''), she sang 11 parts in 10 operas for 93 times at the Met; the most frequent part was the Marschallin in ''Der Rosenkavalier'' (20 times). In August 1979 she made her debut at Salzburg Summer Festival as the Marschallin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gwyneth Jones (soprano)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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