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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. She was educated at Taskers School for Girls in Haverfordwest, the Abbots Bromley School for Girls, and at the Royal Academy of Music [2] where she ...
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 Orche...
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Nov 11, 2011 · Helen Watts's gravely beautiful 1966 performance with Geoffrey Parsons is more womanly and introverted than girlish, but equally valid. Schumann songs suit h...
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Sep 6, 2012 · Sublime Welsh contralto Helen Watts performing one of the best renditions of Messiah "But who may abide".
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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.
Oct 7, 2009 · Helen Watts (Mezzo-soprano, Contralto) Born: December 7, 1927 - Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK Died: October 7, 2009 - Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK The admired Welsh contralto, Helen (Josephine) Watts, first became interested in singing while she was at the Abbots Bromley School in Staffordshire and Ernest Read, the school’s music director, persuaded her to go to the Royal Academy of Music to take up singing and piano.
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Jul 15, 2019 · Learn about the life and career of Helen Watts, a Welsh singer who excelled in Baroque and oratorio repertoire. Discover her recordings of Handel, Bach, Purcell and more on Eloquence Classics.
