![]() Other Mozart roles Margaret sang include Pamina (Zauberflote), Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), Ilia (Idomeneo), Arminda (La Finta Giardiniera) Donna Elvira and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni). ![]() Other opera houses in which she sang Fiordiligi include the Royal Opera House, Frankfurt Opera, Zurich Opera and Scottish Opera. She also recorded the role with Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic. She made her Salzburg Festival debut in 1982 singing Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte with Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmoniker in Michael Hampe’s acclaimed production that remained a festival favourite until 1991. She sang the Countess in Figaro in many of the world’s leading opera houses including the Royal Opera House London, La Scala Milan, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as with Scottish Opera. On the opera platform, Margaret was perhaps best known for her interpretation of Mozartian roles. The Italian conductor invited her back to Florence for his first Le Nozze di Figaro in 1979, in which she sang the role of the Countess. Her first operatic role was Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo which she first sang on the concert platform in the Queen Elizabeth Hall with John Eliot Gardiner before making her stage debut in Florence with Riccardo Muti in 1977, a role she subsequently recorded with Muti and the Philharmonia Orchestra. She also recorded Bach’s B Minor Mass with Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. She then participated in the series of recordings of Vivaldi’s complete sacred vocal music with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Vittorio Negri. She made her first recording with Rudolf Ewerhardt singing JC Bach Salve Regina and Galuppi Rapida Cerva. ![]() In 1975 she made her Festival Hall debut singing in JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion. In 1975 she made her recital debut at the Wigmore Hall. Winning first prize, singing Purcell and Bach in the final, launched an international career that initially focussed on the concert platform. It was he who suggested that Margaret enter the 1974 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Winning a Caird travelling scholarship, Margaret also travelled to Munich to study with the renowned German bass-baritone Hans Hotter. It was at the Royal Scottish Academy that Margaret met her teacher Ena Mitchell, with whom she continued to study after graduating. Singing won and Margaret set out on a musical path which saw her become one of Scotland’s most successful singers on the international stage. After leaving school, Margaret had a choice between an offer to study languages at St Andrews University or singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Margaret Marshall was born in Stirling, Scotland in 1949.
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