Ann Murray

[2] She pursued further studies with Frederic Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste in 1974.

She has since sung at all major opera houses and is particularly noted for her performances in works by George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss.

[citation needed] She maintains her links with Ireland and was a patron of the Young Associate Artists Programme of Dublin's Opera Theatre Company.

[citation needed] In September 2010, she was appointed professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London,[3] where she was previously (since 1999) an honorary fellow.

In 2002, she was made an Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Diamond Jubilee Honours for her services to music.