Elizabeth Laurence
Elizabeth Laurence (born Elizabeth Jane Scott, 22 November 1949, Harrogate, England) is a classical mezzo-soprano singer. She is best known for her performances of 20th century operatic repertoire, and has created several operatic roles. Biography Elizabeth Laurence studied at Trinity College of Music, London. In 1986, Laurence performed Mallika (in Léo Delibes' Lakmé) in Montecarlo; concerts of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1983). Often invited to sing Jocasta (Stravinsky's Oedipus rex) in Madrid (1986, 1987, 2009) and Nancy (Britten's Albert Herring) for Glyndebourne Touring Company (1987), she created the role of Anna Arild in Nigel Osborne's opera The Electrification of the Soviet Union (1988, 1989) and Terrible Mouth (1992). In 1988, she made the BBC film of Bluebeard's Castle by Bartok in London, having performed it in Colmar, Alsace; she premiered this work in Tbilisi (1999) and Tokyo (1997), and during concerts in Festival St Riquier, France (1999). In 1997 and 2001, Laurence played Geneviève in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande on tour in France with Amaury du Closel. She sang Izuko in Cavanna's Les Confessions impudiques in Nanterre and Strasbourg (1990/1992). In 1994 she sang in concert Les Épisodes d'une vie d'artiste by Jacques Banc in Rotterdam. In 1989, at the