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Helen Watts CBE (7 December 1927 – 7 October 2009) was a Welsh contralto. [1] Early life. Helen Josephine Watts was born in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Her father was a pharmacist, Tom Watts and moved to live above his shop at 26 Market Street, Haverfordwest, Wales as a child.
Mar 2, 2019 · The great Welsh contralto sings Morfydd Owen's beautiful setting of the hymn by Thomas William. Watts is accompanied by members of the London Symphony Orchestra under the...
Helen Watts was born in Pembrokeshire and died there on 7 October 2009. From 1953 to 1983 she pursued a quietly spectacular career, gracing innumerable recor...
Sep 6, 2012 · Sublime Welsh contralto Helen Watts performing one of the best renditions of Messiah "But who may abide".
Oct 7, 2009 · Helen Watts began her career singing in the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and the BBC Chorus in London. Her first professional engagements were broadcasts on the Welsh Home Service and she was soon a regular broadcaster on all services of the BBC.
Helen Kirkpatrick Watts was a vicar’s daughter from Lenton, Nottinghamshire. She was born in 1881 and was blind in one eye and partially deaf. She lived in Nottinghamshire until 1911 when she moved to Somerset, living with her brother Neville in Chilcompton.
Jul 15, 2019 · Watts made her debut at the BBC Proms in 1955, singing Bach arias conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, and came first to the attention of Gramophone readers in the magazine’s August issue of the same year through a pair of Handel recordings, Sosarme and Semele.
