Opera Australia Pianist for AGSA Festival 2010
Internationally renowned opera pianist/vocal coach and recitalist Anthony Legge (above) is AGSA’s Musician in Residence for the 2010 Accompanists’ Festival. He studied at the Guildhall, Oxford University and the London Opera Centre, and also studied accompanying privately with Geoffrey Parsons and Paul Hamburger. His numerous recitals include those with, amongst others, Dame Janet Baker, Sir Thomas Allen, Gwynne Howell, Håkan Hagegård and Denyce Graves. He has worked regularly with the principal British opera companies, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Australia, many European opera companies and at Bayreuth, where he assisted on the Kupfer-Barenboim Ring cycle for five years and a new production of Die Meistersinger. He was Head of Music at English National Opera for 14 years where he conducted performances of Dido and Aeneas, Orpheus and Eurydice, Lulu, and Alcina. He was a judge on the award-winning TV programme series Operatunity. He was Director of Opera at the Royal Academy…
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