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Jill Gomez dies. · Spoken News

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are read verbatim
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by a computer. Jill Gomez Dies Jill Carnegie, Countess of Northesque,
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was a Trinidadian and British soprano trained in London in
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voice and piano from the age of thirteen. She began
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her career in nineteen sixty eight with the Glendebourne Festival
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as Adina in Donizetti's Lelasie de More, followed by w
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C's Melisande and Cavals La Callisto over the next two years.
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She created the roles of Flora in Tippet's The nott
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Garden at the Royal Opera House in London in nineteen
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seventy and of the Countess in THEA. Musgrave's The Voice
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of Ariadne at the nineteen seventy three Aldeburg Festival. She
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appeared in lyric roles at several opera houses in the
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UK and Europe, including a production of Mozart's Lucciosia at
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the Zurich Opera directed by Jean Pierre Panell and conducted
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by Nicholas Harnancourt. Her nineteen ninety five creation of the
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lead role of the Duchess of Argyle Impowder Her Face
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by Thomas Aides was particularly acclaimed, and its original cast
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recording was nominated for a Grammy Award. Besides opera, she
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recorded as a soloist in choral symphonic works such as
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Mahler's Symphony Number two with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by
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Gayeorg Salty, sang cantatas by Thomas Arnay with Job Schroeder
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performed song cycles with chamber ensemble by Ravel and Veburn
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conducted by Pierre Boulez, and recorded Spanish and French songs
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such as contelub Chanstauvergne. An obituary in the Telegraph noted
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that she was blessed with a sensuously beautiful and creamy voice.
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