Alfreda Hodgson (Contralto)
Born: 7th June 1940, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
Died: 16th April 1992, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
Nationality: British
Alfreda Hodgson was born in Morecambe on 7th June 1940 and trained at the Northern School of Music (now the Royal Northern College of Music) in Manchester, making her concert debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in the early 1960s. Like another great English contralto, Kathleen Ferrier, Hodgson focused on concert work (particularly Bach, Mahler, Elgar and Beethoven) rather than opera: she was 44 years old (and well established as a concert-artist) when she made her operatic debut as Ulrica in Verdi’s A Masked Ball for English National Opera, but also had success in several English-language roles including Auntie in Britten’s Peter Grimes and the clairvoyant Madam Sosostris in Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage.
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