Roocroft, Amanda
Roocroft, Amanda
Roocroft, Amanda , English soprano; b. Coppull, Feb. 9, 1966. She was a student of Barbara Robotham at the Royal Northern Coll. of Music in Manchester. After winning the Kathleen Ferrier Prize in 1988, she made her formal operatic debut in 1990 as Sophie at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, and then appeared as Pamina with the Glyndebourne Touring Opera. In 1991 she made her first appearance at London’s Covent Garden as Pamina, and also was engaged as Fiordiligi at the Glyndebourne Festival. She portrayed the latter role in Paris, Amsterdam, and Lisbon in 1992, and then at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 1993. In 1993 she also appeared as Ginevra in Ariodante at the English National Opera in London, and then returned to the Glyndebourne Festival as Donna Anna and to Munich as Amelia Boccanegra in 1994. She sang Fiordiligi upon her return to Covent Garden in 1995. After singing in recital at London’s Wigmore Hall in 1997, she once again returned to the Glyndebourne Festival as Kát’a Kabanová in 1998.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire