Enid Hartle

Enid Hartle's early appearances included Mrs Grose "a firmly sketched-in portrait of a comfortable old woman out of her depth" in The Turn of the Screw in 1966, London.

She was a lyric character mezzo-soprano and was employed by Glyndebourne both in the main season and on the tour for many years, where her roles included:[2] She created the role of Miss Reid in Winter Cruise by Hans Henkemans which won her great praise from the Dutch press and whose "committed approach" allowed her to present act 1 "virtually a monologue for her... with consummate skill".

One critic noted in La fille du régiment "Enid Hartle's impeccably timed and cleverly under-played Marquise de Birkenfeld ... which conquered all in the second half.

[7] Her recordings include: two songs on a 1963 Saga LP entitled 'Music from Palm Court', La Calisto by Monteverdi (L’Eternità) realized and conducted by Raymond Leppard (1971), Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky (Filipyevna) with Georg Solti (1974), Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss (Dryad) with Solti (1978), Suor Angelica by Puccini (Mistress of the Novices) with Richard Bonynge (1978), Cigale (solo, angel) by Massenet (1978), and Robinson Crusoe by Offenbach (Lady Crusoe) with Alun Francis (1980).

On video she appeared in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer in 1982 (Mrs. Partlet),[8] as the Nurse in the Kent Opera King Priam in 1985, and in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades from Glyndebourne in 1992 (Governess).