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Ann Murray, DBE (born 27 August 1949, Dublin), is an Irish mezzo-soprano. She studied with Frederic Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in Christoph Willibald Gluck's ''Alceste'' in 1974. She has since sung at all major opera houses and is particularly noted for her performances in works by George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss. Murray performs mainly at Covent Garden (where she performed as Siphare in Mozart's ''Mitridate, re di Ponto''), the English National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera (where she was made Kammersängerin in 1998). Murray was the featured singer in volume three of the Hyperion Schubert Edition, Hyperion Records' complete Franz Schubert ''lieder'' project, in 1988, led by pianist Graham Johnson. In 2012, she was made an Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Diamond Jubilee Honours for her services to music.〔(Artist page ) at Askonas Holt Ltd. Retrieved 16 December 2013.〕 She has received an honorary doctorate in music from the National University of Ireland in 1997, and the Bavarian Order of Merit in 2004.〔(Ann Murray ) at the Royal Academy of Music. Retrieved 16 December 2013.〕 She maintains her links with Ireland and is a patron of the Young Associate Artists Programme of Dublin's Opera Theatre Company. In September 2010, she was appointed professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ram.ac.uk/news?nid=125 )〕 where she was previously (since 1999) an honorary fellow.〔 ==Family== Murray was married to the late English tenor, Philip Langridge. The couple had one son, Jonathan, also a tenor.〔''The Times'', ("Philip Langridge: operatic tenor" ), 8 March 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ann Murray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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