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Teresa Cahill is an English people soprano from South London. She is particularly known for performing the works of Richard Strauss and Edward Elgar, as well as for her performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8.
Having received the Peter Stuyvesant scholarship to the London Opera Centre at the age of twenty, she debuted in The Marriage of Figaro, conducted by Otto Klemperer. Over the course of her career, she performed over one hundred operas at Covent Garden, including [1], Boris Godunov, and the premiering performance of We Come to the River by Hans Werner Henze.
Her concerts include Symphony no. 8 by Mahler with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Georg Solti, with Michael Gielen at the Vienna Festival, then with Riccardo Chailly in the 1987 Berlin Festival open; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Colin Davis and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and Shostakovich’s Symphony no.14 with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and the WDR Cologne Orchestra under Gary Bertini.
She also sang Vienna Webern cantatas at the Vienna Symphony Orchestra Mahler’s Second Symphony with Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Mahler’s Fourth with Klaus Tennstedt, Mahler’s Eighth with Eliahu Inbal and Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers in Frankfurt, London and Gutersloh as part of the composer’s 60th birthday celebrations. Teressa also performed in Texas at Michael Tippett 80th birthday concert performance of A Child of our Time in Houston, and she also performed Tippett’s Third Symphony.
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