Carolyn Watkinson, born on March 19, 1949, in Preston, England, was a British
mezzo-soprano singer specializing in baroque music. She trained at the Royal
Manchester College of Music and in La Haya. In 1978, she performed the role of
Phèdre in Hipólito y Aricia by Jean-Philippe Rameau at the English Bach Festival
held at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. The following year,
Watkinson participated in Monteverdi's Nero with De Nederlandse Opera and was
featured as a solo contralto in Christopher Hogwood's historic recording of
Handel's Messiah. In 1981, she made her deb...