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GOMEZ, Jill was born in Trinidad.
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Jill GOMEZ
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Royal Academy, of Music, Guildhall School of Music.
Career
France, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the United States of America; Festival appearances include Aix-en-Provence, Spoleto, Bergen, Versailles, Flanders, Netherlands, Prague, Edinburgh and British Broadcasting Corporation Promenade concerts; numerous recordings, including Vespro della Beata Vergine lljlO (Monteverdi), Acis and Galatea (Handel), The Knot Garden (Tippett), three recital discs of French, Spanish and Mozart songs, Quatre Chansons Francaises (Britten), Trois Poemes de Mallarme (Ravel), Chants d"Auvergne (Cantreloube), Les Illuminations (Britten), Bachianas Brasileiras Number 5 (Villa Labos), Cabaret Classics with John Constable, KnoxvilleSummer of 1915 (Barber).Debut with Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1969 and has since sung leading roles inch Mdlisande, Calisto and Ann Truelove in The Rake’s Progress. Has appeared with The Royal Opera, English Opera and Scottish Opera in roles inch Pamina, Ilia, Fiordiligi, the Countess in Figaro, Elizabeth in Elegy for Young Lovers. Tytania, Lauretta in Gianni Schiechi, and the Governess in The Turn of the Screw.
Created the role of Flora in Tippett’s The Knot Garden, at Covent Garden and of the Countess in Thea Musgrave’s Voice of Ariadne.
Aldeburgh 1974; sang title role in Massenet’s Thais, Wexford 1974 and Jenifer in The Midsummer Marriage with Welsh National Opera 1976. Created title role in William Alwyn’s Mission Julie for radio 1977, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin with Kent Opera 1977.
Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Ludwigsburg Festival 1978. Title role in British Broadcasting Corporation world premiere of Prokoviev’s Maddalena 1979.
Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Bordeaux 1979.
Sang in premiere of the Eighth Book of Madrigals in Zurich Monteverdi Festival 1979. Violetta in Kent Opera’s production of Louisiana Traviata, Edinburgh Festival 1979. Cinna in Lucio Silla, Zurich 1981.
The Governess in The Turn of the Screw.
Geneva 1981; Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, Frankfurt 1981. Teresa in Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz Festival, Lyon 1982, Leila in Les Pecheurs de Perles, Scottish Opera 1982-1983.
Governess in The Turn of the Screw. English National Opera 1984.
Helena in Glyndeboume’s production of Britten s A Midsummer Night"s Dream.
Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Frankfurt Opera 1985 and with Kent Opera 1988. Rosario in Goyeseas by Granados 1988. Regular engagements including recitals in France, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the United States of America.
Festival appearances include Aix-en-Provence, Spoleto, Bergen, Versailles, Flanders, Netherlands, Prague, Edinburgh and British Broadcasting Corporation Promenade concerts.
