opera, operetta, oratorio, recitals

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Marie Hayward is a distinguished performer who has appeared in many of the world's great opera houses with some of the world's greatest conductors:

Solti, Tennstedt, Goodall, Mackerras, Davies, Davis

'The magnificent Marie Hayward sings with warmth and passion' 
The Scotsman, 1999

For further information see:
International Who's Who in Music 1998-99 Edition, p.234

Roles

Major operatic roles include:

Beethoven - Fidelio
Mozart - Donna Anna, Donna Elvira
Puccini - Tosca, Turandot
Strauss - Ariadne, Salome, Elecktra (Dyer's wife)
Tschaikovsky - Tatiana, Lisa
Verdi - Lady Macbeth, Abigail, Aida, Amelia, Desdemona, Elisabetta, Leonora
Wagner - Elisabeth, Elsa, Brunnhilde, Isolde, Senta
Weber - Euryanthe

Critical Notices

. . . phrases spun with real imagination and musical insight - the long lines floated on enviable breath control, the feeling for the whole never lost in the search for detail . . .

Rodney Milnes - Financial Times

. . .this was a carefully thought out and carefully controlled performance, with much vocal splendour and good reserves of power. Here was an exciting performance . . .

Robert Anderson - Musical Times

radiant voice - bright ringing tone - perfect conviction

Elizabeth Forbes - Opera Magazine

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Recitals

Programmes include works by Wagner, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Grieg, Sibelius, Schubert, Mozart, Berlioz, Brahms, R. Strauss, Boughton, Weill, Schumann, Quilter,
early Verdi songs, Tschaikowsky, Faure, Duparc, Schubert, Bax, Granville Bantock, Elgar, Williamson, Tippett, Vaughan Williams,
Franck, Debussy, Chaminade, Hahn, Delibes, Bizet, Amy Beach, Richard Hageman, John Jacob Niles, Virgil Thomson, Barber,
Ernest Charles,William Lloyd Webber, Medtner, Sorabji.

On the lighter side, Marie performs famous operetta by Lehar, Kalmann, Korngold, Strauss, Duke Ellington, Madeleine Dring and in addition has her own specially devised programme of music by Robert Stolz.

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Mixed Media Programmes

ANGELIC VOICES PRODUCTIONS

Jazz, Weill, and Ellington
A production scripted by Marie Hayward Segal with soprano, saxophone, dancer and pianist

Macbeth: Shakespeare's Text, Verdi's Music
Marie Hayward Segal and Jonathan Finney perform with a cast of actors

". . . a world premiere, bringing power and drama to this bloody tale . . ." Pick of the Day, The List 1998

Robert Stoltz, Last of the Great Waltz Kings
a fascinating story with singer, actor, dancers and pianist

". . .The magnificent Marie Hayward"
The Scotsman, 1999

Prayers from Opera
a stirring spiritual experience of 'prayers from opera' with soprano, actor, and organ.

The Unknown Kurt Weill
Soprano, actor, quartet (bass, pianist, flute and saxophone)

Work in progress
Wagner and His Heroines

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Teaching

Marie believes that every person has a musical instrument they can play - the voice. She is ardently convinced too that the spoken voice indicates the style of singing voice and that it is when these two are as one that the result is music. Hence, as a celebrated dramatic soprano herself whose early qualifications were in speech, drama and voice as actress and teacher, Marie is particularly qualified to train pupils in vocal techniques.

Her steeping in the vocal development of the individual singing voice and belief in the effects of singing on the mind, body and spirit, have led to many masterclasses which she has given in Milan, Heidelberg and also at the University of Central Lancashire, University of Westminster, London Institute and Trinity College of Music. A r wegular speaker on healing in voice and singing to seminars of healing in medicine, she is now preparing a book on the subject.

In addition to her international operatic career, Marie is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio and Classic FM.