MARILYN HILL SMITH

Our Patron Marilyn Hill Smith is currently playing Mother Abbess in the touring production of 'The Sound of Music'.

Marilyn's credits include: various principal roles with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Royal Opera (both at Covent Garden and in Los Angeles), Canadian Opera in Toronto, Lyric Opera of Singapore, Penang Festival Opera, New Sadlers Wells Opera and Carl Rosa Opera Company.

 

Further Credits include: Cunegonde in Jonathan Miller’s production of Candide (Scottish Opera and Old Vic); guest appearances with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (UK tour and Los Angeles);works by Handel, Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau and Bach for the English Bach Festival; BBC Proms at The Royal Albert Hall; many major European Festivals, including Aldeburgh, Camden, Belfast,Paris, Cologne, Granada and Rome; recitals in Zimbabwe and Brazil; numerous pantomimes taking the roles of Fairy Godmother and the Wicked Queen; regular appearances in music hall, including one of the last televised Good Old Days (Leeds City Varieties) and P & O Classical Music Cruises.

West End Credits: several Royal Gala charity performances at the Palladium; a birthday tribute to Stephen Sondheim (Drury Lane) and an Ivor Novello gala at the Novello Theatre.

Radio and recordings: BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night (appearing in a record 104 programmes) and various award-winning recordings of operetta and Ivor Novello.

The Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau: Marilyn continues to support our work for Ivor, hopefully she will be able to join us when we commemorate the 60th anniversary of Ivor's death in 2011.