About
Elisabeth (Elly) Sara Ameling was born 8th February 1933 *) in Rotterdam. She studied with Bodi Rapp and Pierre Bernac. Her career started when she won the first prize during the Vocal Concours in 's Hertogenbosch in Holland (1956) and the "Concours International de Musique" in Geneva (1958). Since then tours have been leading her all over the world. For more than 40 years she performed in virtually every major cultural center in the world, from Tasmania to Iceland, from Nairobi on the Equator to Finland in the Arctic Circle. She has sung with prominent conductors as Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, André Previn, Edo de Waart, Seiji Ozawa and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Her many song recital tours with accompanists like Dalton Baldwin, Rudolf Jansen, Irwin Gage and Jörg Demus have been received with great enthusiasm by both public and music critics alike. She appeared in prestigious music festivals in Aix en Provence, Bergen, Caramoor, Edinburgh, Holland Festival, Sofia, Tanglewood and the Flemish Festival. Her repertoire (songs and works with orchestra) reaches from Monteverdi and Bach via Mozart,Schubert, Schumann Wolf and Debussy to composers of this century like Britten, Poulenc, Menotti and Gershwin. She has recorded more than 150 LP's and CD's with this extended repertoire. Many of them were awarded with an Edison (4x), the Grand Prix du Disque (3x) and the Preis der Deutsche Schallplattenkritik. She only sang three times in opera, in Mozart's Idomeneo, in the role of Ilia. Once under Haitink in a concert and twice on stage, Scheveningen, Circustheater, 1973 under Michael Gielen and in Amsterdam, Stadsschouwburg, 1976 under Hans Vonk. She has made numerous television and radio appearances. On of these television appearences - in the seventieth - was my first accquintance with Elly Ameling and with 'Lieder of Franz Schubert'. Since that particular evening I became, and I still am a great fan of both. |
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