Glenys Rae Fowles AM (born 4 November 1941)[1][2] is an Australian operatic soprano who sang with Opera Australia and its predecessors for many years.
[11] She trained with the Met for two months, then joined the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera, making her debut in 1969 as Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
[12] Fowles made New York debut in 1974, as Micaela at New York City Opera (conducted by Christopher Keene), and till 1982 she was a resident lyric soprano there,[9] singing such roles as Poppea (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Mimì (La bohème) and Micaela.
[14] Glenys Fowles's Opera Australia roles include: the title role in Manon,[3] Mimi, Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Sophie (1972 to Yvonne Minton's Octavian)[15] and Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Gilda (Rigoletto), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Tatiana, Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Hanna Glawari, Juliet (Roméo et Juliette; in 1983 to Anson Austin's Roméo),[9] Liu (Turandot)[12] and Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus).
[17] Her 1978 recording, for EMI, of Valencienne in The Merry Widow (excerpts, in English translation), with Sills, Alan Titus, and Henry Price, conducted by Julius Rudel, won a Grammy Award.