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Elizabeth Llewellyn

13/04/2013

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Mary Ann Seighart profiles Elizabeth Llewellyn, the late-blossoming opera star.

Mary Ann Seighart profiles opera star Elizabeth Llewellyn, who gave up singing in her youth only to be discovered years later.

Mary Ann Seighart profiles Elizabeth Llewellyn, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, who had an obvious talent for singing from an early age. Her school-teachers in south London encouraged her to take lessons and go to concerts, and she won a place at the Royal Northern College of Music. But ill-health forced her to drop out. She then pursued an alternative career in IT recruitment, her talent lying dormant. But when, years later, she joined an amateur choir, her new colleagues urged her to take her voice more seriously. She auditioned for the Glyndebourne chorus and from that point on her rise has been meteoric.

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