Felicity Lott Mezzo-soprano

Felicity Lott studied French and Latin at Royal Holloway College, London University, and singing at the Royal Academy of Music. She performed numerous roles at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, among which Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress), Blanche de La Force (Dialogues des carmélites), Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) and Countess Almaviva (Les Noces de Figaro). At Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, she appeared as Countess Almaviva, Countess Madeleine (Capriccio) and the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier). She sang the Marschallin at Wiener Staatsoper, and the title-roles of La Belle Hélène and La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein at Théâtre du Châtelet.

She holds founder membership of the Songmakers’ Almanac and has been singing recitals at the Salzburg, Munich, Prague, Bergen, Aldeburgh and Edinburg Festivals, at Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, as well as in Paris (Salle Gaveau, Orsay Museum, Opéra Comique, Théâtre du Châtelet and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées). She works in close relationship with Wigmore Hall, from which she received the Wigmore Hall Medal in 2010 for her outstanding contribution. She received many awards, including honorary doctorates in various universities and the title of Bayerische Kammersängerin.

She was awarded the titles Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier dans la Légion d’Honneur. In 1990 she was made a CBE and in 1996 she became a Dame Commander of the British Empire. She also received a Distinguished Musician Award of the Incorporated Society of Musicians in 2015, a Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Classical Music Awards in 2016 and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards in 2023.

At the Paris Opera: Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira), 1981; Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), 1982; Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra), 1988; Capriccio (Der Gräfin), 1993; Der Rosenkavalier (The Marschallin), 1998; La Fille du régiment (The Duchess de Crakentorp), 2012