Dame Felicity Lott read French at Royal Holloway, London University, and singing at the Royal Academy of Music. She has played leading rôles in all the major opera houses of the world and with the greatest conductors and directors. She is particularly associated with the operas of Mozart and Strauss but also with the operettas of Franz Lehar and Jacques Offenbach. She has given recitals all over the world and is a founder member of Graham Johnson’s Songmakers’ Almanac. She is a Dame Commander of the British Empire, a Bayerische Kammersängerin, and has been awarded the titles Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. She has also received the Wigmore Medal marking her significant contribution to that Hall. In 2019 she took part in the National Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies”.