Kathleen Ferrier
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kathleen Gertrud Ferrier
Dutch politician and development aid worker
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912
- Died
- 1953
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Songs of the British Isles
- Kathleen Ferrier memorial album
- Letters and diaries of Kathleen Ferrier
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1912-04-22
- Active to
- 1953-10-08
classicalenglishopera
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8,117
- Total plays
- 75,600
Tags
contraltoClassicalfemale vocalistsopera20th Century
Kathleen Ferrier (1912–1953) started singing professionally late; she was thirty when she did her first performance as a soloist (in Händel’s ‘Messiah’). She only performed in two operas, Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ (1946) and Gluck’s ‘Orfeo ed Eudridice’ (1947). Her rising star as a highly characteristic alto was cut short when she died at only 41; from breast cancer. Luckily, she managed to do many recordings in her too brief career <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kathleen+Ferrier">Rea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Paramaribo
- Father
- Johan Ferrier
- Sibling
- Cynthia McLeod
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Leiden University
- Political party
- Christian Democratic Appeal
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Image
- 2010-12-19 piment ferrier.JPG
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Kathleen Ferrier (politician)
- date of birth
- 1957-03-08
- P10632
- Kathleen Ferrier
- unmarried partner
- Boris Dittrich
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