Rosalind Anne Plowright OBE (born 21 May 1949) is an English opera singer who spent much of her career as a soprano but in 1999 changed to the mezzo-soprano range.

[2] She then appeared with ENO in the roles of Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw, Desdemona in Otello, Elizabeth I in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Hélène in Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes, Elisabeth de Valois in Don Carlos, and Tosca.

With José Carreras, she sang Andrea Chénier at Covent Garden and recorded La forza del destino for Deutsche Grammophon.

[citation needed] As an actress, Plowright has appeared as Grace Vosper in the BBC series The House of Eliott and with she played the part of Hermione Harefield in Anglia Television's The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997), an adaptation of the Jilly Cooper novel of the same name.

In 2013/14 Herodias in Salome in Portland Opera, Oregon, Mme de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmélites in Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes for the Opera de Lyon and Theater an der Wien in Vienna (December 2015).In 2016 Plowright performed Klytämnestra in Keith Warner's new Elektra in Prague and later that year performed her first Old Baroness in Barber's Vanessa at the Wexford Festival.

The year ended with the Opera North production of Six Little Greats where she performed Mila's Mother in Janáček's Osud and Mamma Lucia in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana.

In 2018, Plowright performed Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes in the Palau de les Arts, Valencia and made her Glyndebourne Festival debut as The Old Baroness in Vanessa in Keith Warner's new production.

She was awarded the Prix Fondation Fanny Heldy for her performance as Leonora in the 1984 recording of Verdi's Il trovatore with Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Giorgio Zancanaro, Yevgeny Nesterenko and the Choir and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Carlo Maria Giulini.

Other recordings include Maria Stuarda, Otello, Aida and Hänsel und Gretel, all for the Opera in English series for Chandos Records, Elijah also for Chandos, La vestale for Orfeo, Les contes d'Hoffmann for EMI, and Il trovatore, La forza del destino and Mahler's 2nd Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon.

Gertrude Hänsel und Gretel from The Metropolitan Opera, La Contessa di Coigny / Madelon Andrea Chenier from the Bregenz Festival.