Vivian Tierney (born London, 26 November 1957) is an English operatic soprano,[1] who has sung across a wide range of repertoire in the United Kingdom and Europe, and made several recordings.
[1] Although no other members of her family were musical, she had decided she wanted to be an opera singer after watching a performance of La bohème from Covent Garden on television.
She attended Saturday morning lessons at Oldham Rep from the age of six, which involved learning how to speak prose and verse, and became a member of local choirs.
[3] She went on to sing Regan in Lear, Mimì, Malinka/Etherea/Kunka in The Adventures of Mr Brouček, Fiordiligi, Tatyana, Salome and Ellen Orford, before creating Mrs Foran in The Silver Tassie in the 2000 premiere.
[3] Her recordings include Lehár's Der Graf von Luxemburg (Juliette Vermont), Britten's The Turn of the screw (Miss Jessel) and Peter Grimes (Ellen Orford), Mozart's Don Giovanni (Elvira) in English, and Nyman's Man and Boy: Dada (Michael's Mother, Old Woman, Bus Conductress, British Museum Guard, BBC Interviewer).