Ann Murray was born in Dublin and studied with Frederick Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music. She has established close links with both the English National Opera, for which she has sung the title rôles in Handel’s Xerxes and Ariodante and in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, and with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where her rôles have included Cherubino, Dorabella, Donna Elvira, Rosina, Octavian, and new productions of L’enfant et les sortilèges, Ariadne auf Naxos, Idomeneo, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Così fan tutte, Mosé in Egitto, Alcina and Giulio Cesare.

Much sought after as a concert singer, she has sung with the Orchestre de Paris under Kubelík, the P...