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The English soprano Dame Felicity Lott was born in Cheltenham on 8 May 1947 and started learning the piano when she was five, having her first singing lesson at the age of twelve. At first she decided against a professional singing career and read French and Latin at London University to become an interpreter. During a stay in France she continued taking singing lessons at the Conservatoire of Grenoble, and in 1969, returned to London to take up her singing studies at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1975 she made her début at the English National Opera as Pamina in Mozart’s Magic Flute, in 1976 she took part in the first performance of Henze’s opera We come to the River at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. In that year she also began her long relationship with Glyndebourne, where, after rejecting her for the chorus three times, she was offered the rôle of the Countess in Capriccio for the touring opera, and in 1977 she appeared at the Festival for the first time, as Anne Trulove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. Since then, Dame Felicity Lott has appeared at all the great opera houses of the world, including Vienna, Milan, Paris, Brussels, Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, New York and Chicago in rôles ranging from Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte to The Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and Blanche in Poulenc’s Les dialogues des carmélites. She has also turned her attention to operetta, singing the title rôle in