Jane Sheldon

Jane Sheldon is a Sydney-born Australian soprano, largely based in New York City.^[1]^[2] She was nominated for the 2013 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album for the album North + South^[3] which was recorded with Genevieve Lang (harp) and the Acacia Quartet.^[4]

Eliza's Aria from Elena Kats-Chernin's ballet Wild Swans was first recorded by Sheldon. This recording was used in a series of television and cinema advertisements for British bank Lloyds TSB, and then as the theme music for Phillip Adams' ABC Radio National programme Late Night Live. In 2018, Sheldon performed in the premiere of Damien Ricketson's wordless opera The Howling Girls, directed by Adena Jacobs at Carriageworks.^[5]

Personal life[]

Sheldon is married to philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith.^[2]

Discography[]

2012: North + South, Jane Sheldon, Genevieve Lang (harp), Acacia Quartet – Phosphor Records
2013: Learning to Howl, Andrew Ford, Jane Sheldon, Sydney Chamber Choir^[6]
2014: Nature, Jane Sheldon, Nicole Panizza, music by Aaron Copland, Nigel Butterley, Ross Edwards, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, words by Emily Dickinson, Judith Wright, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman^[1]^[7]
2015: There Was a Man Lived in the Moon, nursery rhymes and children's songs, arranged by Andrew Ford, with Teddy Tahu Rhodes (baritone); ABC Classics

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Steve Moffatt (18 August 2014). "Album review: Soprano Jane Sheldon casts her spell with her new recording Nature". Manly Daily. Retrieved 26 April 2014 – via The Daily Telegraph.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "On the Couch with Jane Sheldon", Arts Review, 17 June 2015, retrieved 26 April 2018
^ Paget, Clive (3 October 2013), "Dickson, Hansen, Sheldon and Whitwell to slug it out at ARIAS", Limelight
^ Hardaker, John (9 November 2012), "Review: Jane Sheldon, North+South: Ten Folk Songs", Megaphone Oz
^ "The daring new opera The Howling Girls revisits a post 9/11 hysteria attack" by Andrew Taylor, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 2018
^ Arnold, Warwick (29 August 2013), "Andrew Ford: Learning to Howl (Sheldon, Sydney Chamber Choir)", Limelight
^ Yeoman, Will (6 March 2015), "Nature (Jane Sheldon, Nicole Panizza)", Limelight

External links[]

[DT-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Steve Moffatt (18 August 2014). "Album review: Soprano Jane Sheldon casts her spell with her new recording Nature". Manly Daily. Retrieved 26 April 2014 – via The Daily Telegraph.

[AR-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "On the Couch with Jane Sheldon", Arts Review, 17 June 2015, retrieved 26 April 2018

[3] Paget, Clive (3 October 2013), "Dickson, Hansen, Sheldon and Whitwell to slug it out at ARIAS", Limelight

[4] Hardaker, John (9 November 2012), "Review: Jane Sheldon, North+South: Ten Folk Songs", Megaphone Oz

[5] "The daring new opera The Howling Girls revisits a post 9/11 hysteria attack" by Andrew Taylor, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 2018

[6] Arnold, Warwick (29 August 2013), "Andrew Ford: Learning to Howl (Sheldon, Sydney Chamber Choir)", Limelight

[7] Yeoman, Will (6 March 2015), "Nature (Jane Sheldon, Nicole Panizza)", Limelight

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