"Brilliant" Robert Hugill
Carol Rowlands as Babulenka
The Gambler, Grange Park, 2007

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Frieze of pictures showing Carol Rowlands, mezzo soprano in various roles

Hear Carol at work

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Items range from about 30 seconds to two minutes. All files are in MP3 format, and should start to play quite quickly in your default media program whilst still downloading, even on slower connections. Don't be intimidated by file sizes!

 
In cabaret

Piano Song (522Kb MP3 file)

Music and words by Richard Perrett

Sophisticated Lady (1.119Kb MP3 file)

Music: Duke Ellington; words: Mitchell Parish/Irving Mills

Shadow of Your Smile (961Kb MP3 file)

Music: Johnny Mandel; words: Paul Francis Webster

Miss Otis (888Kb MP3 file)

Music and words by Cole Porter

Just You Wait (1234Kb MP3 file)

Music: Frederick Loewe; words: Alan Jay Lerner

What'll I Do? (1235Kb MP3 file)

Music and words by Irving Berlin

With jazz ensemble featuring Stephen Adam (piano and cello) and Lio Moscardini (bass)

 

 

 

 

With accompanist

Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck (1265Kb MP3 file)
In the role of the Mother (piano – Helen Crayford)

Marriage of Figaro, Mozart (1163Kb MP3 file)
In the role of Marcellina (piano – Helen Crayford)

Dream of Gerontius, Elgar (1953Kb MP3 file)
In the role of the Angel (piano – Helen Crayford)

 

 

In performance

Madame Butterfly extract from act 3 (147Kb MP3 file)
In the role of Suzuki, from a live performance by London City Opera in Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Turn of the Screw extract from act 1 (183Kb MP3 file)
In the role of Mrs Grose, in a live recording made by Nationale Reisopera, Netherlands,
during one of its performances

(Note that this extract starts very quietly)