Dame Gwyneth Jones has appeared in all major opera houses around the world: Covent Garden, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, La Scala, Barcelona, The Met, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Peking, Hong Kong, Seoul, Bayreuth, Salzburg, Verona, Orange, and Edinburgh,among others.
Her vast repertoire of roles includes Senta,Sieglinde,Eva, Elisabeth,Venus,Kundry,Brünnhilde,Isolde,Ortrud, Octavian,Marschallin,Ägyptische Helena,Ariadne, Salome, Herodias, Färberin, Chrysothemis, Elektra, Klytämnestra, Amelia, Leonora, Desdemona, Aida, Elisabetta,Cio-Cio-San,Tosca,Turandot,Minnie,Donna Anna,Poppea,Medea,Santuzza,Elle (La voix humaine), The Woman (Erwartung), Kostelnicka, Kabanicha, Begbick, and Hanna.
Honours include: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Shakespeare Prize (Hamburg), Verdienstkreuz 1.Klasse,Kammersängerin (Bavaria and Austria), Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Kunst 1. Klasse, Honorary Member of the Vienna State Opera, Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Premio Puccini, and honorary doctorates from the universities of Wales and Glamorgan.
She has made recordings/films with leading labels,and directed Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländerat the National Theatre Weimar.
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