Jill Gomez

Jill Carnegy, Countess of Northesk was a Trinidadian and British soprano. Trained in London in voice and piano from the age of 13, she began her career in 1968 with the Glyndebourne Festival as Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, followed by Debussy's Mélisande and Cavalli's La Calisto over the next two years. She created the roles of Flora in Tippett's The Knot Garden at the Royal Opera House in London in 1970 and of the Countess in Thea Musgrave's The Voice of Ariadne at the 1974 Aldeburgh Festival. She appeared in lyric roles at several opera houses in the UK and Europe, including a production of Mozart's Lucio Silla at the Zürich Opera directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Her 1995 creation of the lead role of the Duchess of Argyll in Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès was particularly acclaimed and its original-cast recording was nominated for a Grammy Award.

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