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Julia Goss (born c. 1946), is a Scottish singer and actress best known for her performances in the principal soprano roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. She joined that company in 1967, remaining with them until 1979. Goss then performed in opera with the Old Vic Theatre Company for a season, singing the roles of Micaëla in ''Carmen'', the Countess in ''The Marriage of Figaro'', Norina in ''Don Pasquale'', and Marguerite in Gounod's ''Faust''. Following this, she began a career in London's West End and on tour in many musicals, including in the roles of Golde in ''Fiddler on the Roof'', Carlotta in ''Phantom of the Opera'', Mrs. Potts in ''Beauty and the Beast'' and Heidi Schiller in ''Follies''. She also performs in concerts and in her own cabaret act. ==Early years and D'Oyly Carte == Goss was born in Baillieston, Lanarkshire, near Glasgow, Scotland, of Scots ancestry. Her family moved to London when she was very young, and she participated in plays and musicals in school, also singing in church and in local choirs. She studied music at Trinity College of Music in London, performing in concerts and operas while a student.〔Stevenson, David and Elaine. ("Julia Goss talks to David and Elaine Stevenson", ) ''Memories of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company'', accessed 22 November 2009〕 During her last year of music school, in the spring of 1967, Goss joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a chorister. She was stopped in the middle of her audition piece and feared that she had failed the audition, but the audition panel had heard enough to hire her on the spot.〔 In the Autumn of 1968, she began to play smaller principal roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the company, including Isabel in ''The Pirates of Penzance'', Sacharissa in ''Princess Ida'', Kate in ''The Yeomen of the Guard'' (also understudying and occasionally performing the leading role of Elsie Maynard), and Giulia in ''The Gondoliers''. When Valerie Masterson left the company at the beginning of 1969, Goss took over the leading soprano roles.〔Ayre, p. 125〕 These included Mabel in ''Pirates'', Yum-Yum in ''The Mikado'', Elsie in ''Yeomen'' (although she only played this role in 1969), Casilda in ''The Gondoliers'', Lady Ella in ''Patience'' Lady Psyche in ''Princess Ida'', Rose Maybud in ''Ruddigore'' and Aline in ''The Sorcerer''. She also occasionally played Josephine in ''H.M.S. Pinafore''. In 1975, during the company's centenary season, she played the Plaintiff in ''Trial by Jury'', Princess Nekaya in ''Utopia Limited'', and Julia Jellicoe in the concert performance of ''The Grand Duke''.〔Stone, David. ("Julia Goss", ) ''Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company'', 27 May 2004, accessed 22 November 2009〕 Colleague Jeffrey Cresswell related Goss's comment, after a man died in the audience during a performance of ''The Mikado'' at the Wimbledon Theatre: "I know matinees can sometimes be a little lacklustre, but Julia said she didn't think we had been that bad!"〔Cresswell, Jeffrey. ("Well Known, Half -Remembered and Apochryfal" ), Cartload of Stories, accessed 22 November 2009〕 Both during and after her years in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Goss performed in oratorios and other concerts. In March 1970, she was soprano soloist in a performance of Bach's ''St. John Passion'' at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.〔''The Musical Times'', February 1970, p. 230〕 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「Julia Goss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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