Gwenyth Annear - "Geme la Tortorella" LA FINTA GIARDINIERA (Mozart) 1968

The Australian soprano, Gwenyth Annear, studied opera under Ellis Keeler at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and enjoyed a successful career in the UK as an opera singer and recitalist. Her career took her to the Camden Festival, Glyndebourne Festival, Sadlers Wells at the Coliseum, The Welsh National and the National Opera, Brussels in diverse roles such roles as Anna Bolena, Donna Anna, Electra, Countessa, Gilda and Giuone (La Calisto). She can be heard in two major recordings - Mahler’s Symphony No.8 in E flat major “Symphony of a Thousand” with the London Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein in 1966 and the 1967 DECCA recording of Delibes’ Lakme. She recorded opera for B.B.C. Radio and appeared regularly on the London concert platform before returning to Australia in 1975. In late career she performed with The State Opera of South Australia and taught voice. Gwenyth Annear is heard here as Countess Violante (aka Sandrina) in a BBC broadcast of Mozart's La Finta giardiniera in her Act I aria. The New BBC Orchestra is under conductor Walter Susskind in this performance from January 25th, 1968.