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Hilary Summers is a Welsh dramatic contralto. She was trained at Reading University, the Royal Academy of Music, and the National Opera Studio in London. She has performed on soundtracks such as The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Libertine, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. She has created roles for composers Péter Eötvös and Elliott Carter, and is known to have a close working relationship with Michael Nyman. She created the leading role of the Art Banker in Nyman's opera Facing Goya. In 2000 she performed the role of Mars in the first modern revival of Giovanni Legrenzi's La divisione del mondo at the Schwetzingen Festival. Her discography includes, for Chandos, Handel's Partenope and Semele. She sang the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas at the Opéra-Comique (2008, William Ch
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Serse | Georg Friedrich Händel - Anna Stéphany · Rosemary Joshua · David Daniels · Hilary Summers · Joélle Harvey · Brindley Sherratt · Andreas Wolf, Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn | 2013 | Album |
The Rape Of Lucretia | Benjamin Britten - Oliver Knussen, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ian Bostridge, Susan Gritton, Christopher Purves, Benjamin Russell, Peter Coleman-Wright, Hilary Summers, Claire Booth, Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble | 2011 | Album |
Mozart 252 | Michael Nyman - The Michael Nyman Band & Hilary Summers & Andrew Slater | 2008 | Album |
Petite Messe Solennelle | Gioacchino Rossini, Carolyn Sampson, Hilary Summers, Andrew Tortise, Andrew Foster-Williams, The King's Consort, Robert King | 2006 | Album |
Lotario | Georg Friedrich Händel – Sara Mingardo, Simone Kermes, Sonia Prina, Hilary Summers, Steve Davislim, Vito Priante, Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis | 2004 | Album |
La Senna Festeggiante • Gloria E Imeneo | Antonio Vivaldi, Carolyn Sampson, Hilary Summers, Tuva Semmingsen, Andrew Foster-Williams, The King's Consort, Robert King | 2002 | Album |
Sacred Music - 6 | Antonio Vivaldi - Susan Gritton, Nathalie Stutzmann, Hilary Summers, Alexandra Gibson, The Choir Of The King's Consort, The King's Consort, Robert King | 2000 | Album |
Orlando | Georg Friedrich Händel, Patricia Bardon, Rosa Mannion, Hilary Summers, Rosemary Joshua, Harry van der Kamp, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie | 1996 | Album |
Messiah | Georg Friedrich Händel — Lynne Dawson, Hilary Summers, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles, The King's College Choir Of Cambridge, Brandenburg Consort, Stephen Cleobury | 1994 | Album |
Handel Messiah Highlights | Georg Friedrich Händel - The King's College Choir Of Cambridge, Lynne Dawson, Hilary Summers, Stephen Cleobury, Alastair Miles, Brandenburg Consort | Compil. |