Valerie Masterson
Margaret Valerie Masterson (born 3 June 1937) is a retired English opera singer, a lecturer, and Vice-President of British Youth Opera. After studying in Italy, she began to sing opera in Europe. Returning to England, Masterson performed as principal soprano with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1964 to 1969, becoming popular with audiences and participating in several of the company's recordings, as well as those of Gilbert and Sullivan for All and the BBC.
She next joined English National Opera and went on to an international opera career lasting more than three decades. Although she performed a wide variety of roles, she was best known for her roles in the French repertoire and the works of Handel, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan. Her recordings include, in addition to many opera roles, operettas and musical theatre. She has been appointed a CBE and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music.
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La Traviata: Prelude - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 2: The surprise is a band of dancing gipsies (Flora, Marquis, Doctor, Chorus) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: What a time to arrive at a party! (Chorus, Violetta, Flora, Marquis, Gaston, Alfredo, Baron) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 2: We're gipsy fortune tellers (Gipsies, Flora, Marquis, Chorus) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: Be happy, be happy and raise your glass with me (Alfredo, Violetta, Chorus) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 2: We are heroes, in Spain they adore us (Gaston, Matadors, Chorus) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: What's that? (Alfredo, Violetta) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 2: Alfredo! You! (Chorus, Alfredo, Flora, Violetta, Baron, Gaston, Servant) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: I saw a vision ethereal (Alfredo, Violetta) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 2: I have asked him here to meet me (Violetta, Alfredo, Chorus) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: Ha, ha! What are you doing? (Gaston, Violetta, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 2: All that she had she spent on me (Alfredo, Chorus) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: We present ourselves before you (Chorus) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 2: Disgraceful conduct! How I despise you! (Germont, Alfredo, Baron, Chorus) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: I wonder! I wonder! (Violetta) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 2: Alfredo, Alfredo, you hate and scorn me (Violetta, Alfredo, Germont, Baron, Chorus) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: Is he the one I dream about? (Violetta, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata: Prelude II - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: It can't be! It can't be! (Violetta, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: Annina? Did you call me? (Violetta, Annina, Doctor) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act I: Give me freedom to be happy (Violetta, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: You have kept your promise… (Violetta) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: I'm never happy if she is not beside me (Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: Forever I must leave thee… (Violetta) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: My life was too impetuous (Alfredo, Annina) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: Hail to the carnival's four-footed master! (Chorus of Revellers) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: Annina, where have you been? (Alfredo, Annina) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: Dear Madam - (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: I hate myself! I'm so ashamed! (Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: Come, bid farewell to Paris forever (Alfredo, Violetta) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: Alfredo? He has just set out for Paris (Violetta, Annina, Joseph, Germont) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: Ah, no more, Alfredo, let's go to church now (Violetta, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: I have a daughter sent from Heav'n (Germont, Violetta) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: But if my loved one cannot revive me (Violetta, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: Do you realise I adore him (Violetta, Germont) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: Ah, Violetta! (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: Listen! I have a picture here (Violetta, Alfredo, Germont) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: A day will come when making love… (Violetta, Germont) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act III: I see a pure and lovely girl (Violetta, Germont, Doctor, Annina, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: Ah! Comfort your daughter so pure and lovely (Violetta, Germont) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: Then command me! (Violetta, Germont) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: I'll die! But you must promise me... (Violetta, Germont) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: God give me strength to bear it! (Violetta, Annina) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: What's that? Nothing (Alfredo, Violetta) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: Ah, she is mine forever (Alfredo, Joseph, A Passer-by, Germont) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: In Provence, your native land (Germont) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: Won't you answer your father, Alfredo? (Germont, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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La Traviata, Act II Scene 1: No, no, I cannot preach at you (Germont, Alfredo) - Verdi: La Traviata -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17: Overture - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 1: Have you done as I ordered, faithful Nirenus? (Cleopatra, Nirenus, Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 1: Symphony - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Caesar! Caesar! Egypt acclaims thee (Chorus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 1: Lamenting, complaining of Caesar's disdaining (Cleopatra, Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 1: So! You are beaten! (Ptolemy, Cleopatra) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Kneel in tribute, fair land of Egypt (Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 1: Fly then, fly, O my heart (Caesar, Nirenus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 1: I shall tame your pride unbending (Ptolemy) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Curio, Caesar has come… (Caesar, Cornelia, Sextus, Achillas) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 1: Fleet o'er flowery meadow gliding (Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 1: And so in one brief hour all my glory is gone? (Cleopatra) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Tyrant, avoid my sight (Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 2: Still despairing, still lamenting (Cornelia) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 1: Flow, my tears (Cleopatra) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Mother! Cornelia! (Sextus, Curio, Cornelia) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 2: Lady, forget your grieving (Achillas, Cornelia, Ptolemy) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 1: From the perils of the ocean (Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Grief and woe all hope deny me (Cornelia) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 2: Deep within my bosom burning (Ptolemy) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 1: Zephyrs! Zephyrs, come to mine aid! (Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: The time for tears is over (Sextus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 2: So why delay? (Cornelia, Sextus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 1: Nirenus, the battle is fought and lost (Sextus, Achillas, Caesar, Curio) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Come rouse yourselves to vengeance (Sextus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 2: Sigh no more, forget lamenting (Cornelia) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 1: See in spate the high cataract storming (Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 2: You shall be Queen, Cleopatra (Cleopatra, Nirenus, Ptolemy) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 2: He is no son who seeks not full revenge… (Sextus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act III Scene 2: Ladies, my faithful servants (Cleopatra, Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 2: Yet why despair? (Cleopatra) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 2: Wounded, the serpent ne'er reposes (Sextus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 2: Pharaoh, my King! (Achillas, Ptolemy) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 3: Soon he will come to find me (Cleopatra) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 2: Upstart, barbarian and traitor! (Ptolemy) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 3: Venus, fair lady, one favour send me (Cleopatra) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 3: Spirit of mighty Pompey (Caesar, Curio, Cleopatra, Nirenus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 3: Ah gods! What do I see? (Caesar, Cleopatra, Curio) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 3: Here within thee, O friendly marble (Cornelia) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 3: In anger and fury I'll turn on the foe (Caesar, Chorus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 3: Alas! Reviled and neglected, must I remain here for ever? (Cornelia, Sextus, Cleopatra, Nire - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 3: They will kill him (Cleopatra) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 3: O star of my desire (Cleopatra) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act II Scene 3: Hear my prayer, O gods, relenting (Cleopatra) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 4: Caesar! A generous destiny… (Ptolemy, Caesar, Achillas) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 4: How silently, how slyly (Caesar) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 4: Sire, with Sextus her son, the lady Cornelia (Achillas, Cornelia, Sextus, Ptolemy) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 4: Ne'er reject a tender lover (Achillas) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 4: Mother!' 'My dearest! (Sextus, Cornelia) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 4: Condemn'd to grieve and cry, my love (Cornelia, Sextus) - Handel: Julius Caesar -
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