Joan Rodgers

{{Short description|English operatic soprano}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Joan Rodgers''' C.B.E. (born 4 November 1956<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/joan-rodgers-mn0002203438|title=Joan Rodgers Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & Mor...|website=AllMusic|access-date=4 November 2024}}</ref> in Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England) is an English operatic soprano.

==Early life== She attended Whitehaven Grammar School, gaining French, German and Russian A-levels.<ref>''Liverpool Daily Post'' Thursday 12 May 1988, page 20</ref>

She read Russian at the University of Liverpool and studied at the RNCM. She studied singing with Audrey Langford.

==Career== She made her professional opera debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1982 as Pamina in Mozart's ''The Magic Flute''; a role she later sang for her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1995. In 1983 she made her debut at the English National Opera as the Wood Nymph in ''Rusalka'', and performed for the first time at the Royal Opera House as the princess in ''L'enfant et les sortilèges''. She made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1989 as Susanna in Mozart's ''The Marriage of Figaro''.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ClWcAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Audrey+Langford%22&pg=PA331|title=A Dictionary of Opera Characters|author=Joyce Bourne, Joyce Bourne Kennedy|year=2008|page=330-331|chapter=Rodgers, Joan|isbn=9780199550395|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>

==Personal life== She was married to the conductor Paul Daniel,<ref>The Grove Book of Opera Singers - Page 412 0195337654 Laura Williams Macy - 2008 "English soprano. H. Canning: 'Joan Rodgers', Opera, xlvi (1995), 1390–98 Max Loppert/R ...</ref> and married Alan Samson in 2013.<ref>[http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-article/fisticuffs-at-the-wallace-as-orion-celebrates-the-crisp-and-secretly-kind-peter-roche/] {{dead link|date=August 2020}}</ref>

She was created a CBE in 2001.

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