[2] [3] English mezzo-soprano, Diana Montague, studied at the Royal Manchester (Northern) College of Music with Ronald Stear, Frederic Cox and Rupert Bruce-Lockhard.
She sang The Fox in the Cunning Little Vixen at Covent Garden in 1990; Idamante in Idomeneo at the 1990 Salzburg Festival; Cherubino at the Vienna Staatsoper in 1990, and Lucio Silla in 1991; Glyndebourne in 1991 as Sextus in La Clemenza di Tito (also at the Promenade Concerts in London).
Diana Montague's repertoire includes the major roles for mezzo-sopranos in operas by Mozart, Gluck, Strauss, Rossini, Bellini and Berlioz.
Her repertoire also includes such rarely performed works as Donizetti's Zoraide di Granata and Rosamonda d'Inghilterra and Meyerbeer's Il Crociato in Egitto (The Crusaders in Egypt).
9 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Danielle Gatti, Marcellina, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Annina in Der Rosenkavalier at Covent Garden.
Diana Montague's recordings include Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bruno Campanella/Nuova Era) and Clothilde in Norma (Richard Bonynge/Decca), Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (Richard Bonynge/Teldec), Franck's Les Béatitudes (Helmuth Rilling/Hänssler), Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride (John Eliot Gardiner/Phillips), G.F. Handel's Dixit Dominus and Nisi Dominus (Simon Preston/Deutsche Grammophon), Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen (Simon Rattle/EMI), Monteverdi's Orfeo (John Eliot Gardiner/DGG), Mozart's Idomeneo and The Marriage of Figaro (both Parry/Chandos), Mozart's C minor Mass (Philips), Rossini's Le Comte Ory (John Eliot Gardiner/Phillips), Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier (Parry/Chandos), a solo CD of French repertory and a CD devoted to 19th Century bel canto rarities.