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English soprano vocalist, born 1979 in Norwich.

Watts was a Norwich Cathedral chorister and studied archaeology at Sheffield University before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music Britten International Opera School where she studied singing from 2002 to 2005 with Lilian Watson. From 2005 to 2007, she was a member of the Young Singers’ Programme at English National Opera. Watts has won numerous prizes, most recently the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Prize, the MIDEM 2007 Outstanding Young Artist Award and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2011.

ALBUMS


Britten*, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Elizabeth Watts, Alice Coote, Allan Clayton
Spring Symphony / Sinfonia Da Requiem / Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra
2024, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album, LSO Live, ,
Modern
Vaughan Williams*, Elizabeth Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Sinfonia Antartica & Symphony No 9
2023, CD, Album, Hyperion,
Vaughan Williams*, Elizabeth Watts, David Butt Philip, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Symphony No 3 'Pastoral' / Symphony No 4 / Saraband 'Helen'
2020, CD, Album, Hyperion, ,
Modern
Handel* – Academy Of Ancient Music*, Richard Egarr, Choir Of AAM*, Elizabeth Watts, Robert Murray (6), Cody Quattlebaum, Gwilym Bowen, Tim Mead (2), Ruby Hughes, Nicky Spence, Rachael Lloyd, Morgan Pearse
Brockes-Passion
2019, 3xCD, Album + Box, Car, AAM Records, ,
Baroque/Oratorio
Vaughan Williams*, Elizabeth Watts, Mary Bevan, Kitty Whately, Royal College Of Music Brass Band*, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
A London Symphony And Other Works
2017, CD, Album, Hyperion, ,
Modern
George Dyson*, Elizabeth Watts, Caitlin Hulcup, Joshua Ellicott, Roderick Williams (3), The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Choral Symphony; St Paul's Voyage To Melita
2017, CD, Album, Naxos, ,
Modern/Choral
François Couperin, Sébastien De Brossard, La Nuova Musica, Lucy Crowe, Elizabeth Watts, David Bates
Leçons De Ténèbres
2016, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album, Harmonia Mundi, ,
Baroque
Mozart*, Elizabeth Watts, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Opera Arias & Overtures
2015, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album, Linn Records
Gustav Mahler - Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra*, Marc Albrecht (2), Elizabeth Watts
Symphony No. 4
2015, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Pentatone
JS Bach*, Academy Of Ancient Music*, Gilchrist* • Rose* • Riches* • Watts* • Connolly* • Hobbs* • Maltman* • Choir of the AAM* • Egarr*
St Matthew Passion
2015, 103xFile, FLAC, Album, 24-, AAM Records, ,
Baroque/Religious
Alessandro Scarlatti, Elizabeth Watts, The English Concert
Con Eco D'Amore
2015, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Harmonia Mundi, ,
Baroque/Opera/Oratorio
JS Bach*, Academy Of Ancient Music*, Gilchrist* • Rose* • Riches* • Watts* • Connolly* • Hobbs* • Maltman* • Choir of the AAM* • Egarr*
St Matthew Passion
2015, 3xCD, Album, AAM Records, ,
Baroque/Religious
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Elizabeth Watts · Wiebke Lehmkuhl · Lothar Odinius · Markus Eiche · RIAS Kammerchor* · Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin · Hans-Christoph Rademann
Magnificat • Motet "Heilig Ist Gott"
2014, CD, Album, Jew, Harmonia Mundi
JS Bach*, Academy Of Ancient Music*, Gilchrist* • Rose* • Riches* • Watts* • Connolly* • Kennedy* • Purves* • Choir Of The AAM* • Egarr*
St John Passion
2014, 68x File 24-bit / 96 kHz, ,
Baroque/Oratorio
Strauss* - Elizabeth Watts · Roger Vignoles
The Complete Songs - 6
2012, CD, Album, Hyperion, ,
Romantic
J.S. Bach*, Elizabeth Watts, The English Concert, Harry Bicket
Cantatas & Arias
2011, SACD, Harmonia Mundi
G. F. Handel*, Huddersfield Choral Society, Northern Sinfonia, Jane Glover, Elizabeth Watts, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mark Le Brocq, James Oldfield
Messiah
2011, 2xCD, Signum Classics, ,
Baroque/Oratorio
Ian Page (7), Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Caitlin Hulcup, Andrew Staples, Rebecca Bottone, Daniel Norman
Artaxerxes
2010, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album, HDC, Linn Records
Brahms*, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Elizabeth Watts, Stéphane Degout, London Philharmonic Orchestra
A German Requiem
2010, CD, Album, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Schubert*, Elizabeth Watts, Roger Vignoles
Schubert: Lieder
2008, CD, Album, RCA Red Seal
Varèse* - Watts*, Grochowska*, Bloch*, Men's Voices Of The Camerata Silesia*, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra*, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Orchestral Works • 2: Amériques, Écuatorial, Ionisation
2008, ,
Modern

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