Hilary Summers

Hilary Summers is a Welsh lyric contralto. She was trained at Reading University, the Royal Academy of Music, and the National Opera Studio in London. She has performed on soundtracks such as "", "The Libertine", and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". She has created roles for composers Péter Eötvös and Elliott Carter, and is known to have a close working relationship with Michael Nyman. She created the leading role of the Art Banker in Nyman's opera "Facing Goya". In 2000 she performed the role of Mars in the first modern revival of Giovanni Legrenzi's "La divisione del mondo" at the Schwetzingen Festival. Her discography includes, for Chandos, Handel's "Partenope" and "Semele". She sang the Sorceress in "Dido and Aeneas" at the Opéra-Comique (2008, William Christie, D. Cohen).