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About Anna Burford

Voice type: Mezzo-soprano
Past performances in our database:
Schwertleite in Die Walküre (Royal Opera, 2012)
Ursula in Béatrice et Bénédict (Welsh National Opera, 2012)

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Date and venueTitle
18-Oct-2012
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Connolly and Terfel stand out in a thought-provoking Walküre at Covent Garden
Image credit: Simon OIf you've been brought up with the Judaeo-Christian ideal of an all-powerful, all-good God, Norse mythology can come as a bit of a shock. Wotan, the father of the gods, is philandering, deceitful, power-hungry, sentimental, violent and ultimately weak - the gamut of human frailties writ large. Combine all of those with a magic spear and the ability to control the weather and you know that things aren't going to end well.
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