Updated at December 12, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Rosalind Plowright |
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Birthdate | May 21, 1949 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 75 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Opera Singer |
Rosalind Plowright is best known as Opera Singer who has born on May 21, 1949 in England. Currently, Rosalind Plowright is 75 years, 6 months and 22 days old. Rosalind Plowright will celebrate 76th birthday on Wednesday, 21st of May 2025. Below the countdown to Rosalind Plowright upcoming birthday.
Well known for her roles in English National Opera productions of Othello, Salome, and The Turn of the Screw, this English soprano is also famous for performing with Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in productions of Il Trovatore, Die Walkure, and Aida at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
After training at the London Opera Centre and at Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music, she was cast as Agathe in a 1975 Glyndebourne Touring Opera production of Der Freischutz.
Later in her career, she became a mezzo-soprano and debuted at New York's Metropolitan Opera in a 2003 staging of composer Leos Janacek's Jenufa. In 2007, she won a Grammy Award for her performance as Gertrude in a recording of the Engelbert Humperdinck opera Hansel and Gretel.
She spent her early days in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, and later settled in Salisbury.
She and fellow English opera singer Janet Baker sang the respective roles of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots in an acclaimed recording of Gaetano Donizetti's opera Maria Stuarda.
Rosalind Plowright is 75 years old today.
Rosalind Plowright was born on May 21, 1949 in England.
Rosalind Plowright zodiac sign is Gemini.
Rosalind Plowright was best known as Opera Singer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Rosalind Plowright's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1994 | The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out. |
1996 | The ferry MVÂ Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. |
1998 | In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker. |
1998 | President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule. |
2000 | Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. |
2001 | French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. |
2003 | The 6.8 Mw  Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands. |
2005 | The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. |
2006 | The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence. |
2010 | JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. |
2011 | Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. |
2012 | A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others. |
2012 | A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen. |
2014 | Random killings occurred on the Bannan Line of the Taipei MRT, killing four and injuring 24. |
2017 | Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. |
1992 | The birth of Philipp Grüneberg, German footballer |
1992 | The birth of Olivia Olson, American singer and actress |
1993 | The birth of Grete Gaim, Estonian biathlete |
1993 | The birth of Luke Garbutt, English footballer |
1993 | The birth of Lynn Williams, American soccer player |
1994 | The birth of Tom Daley, English diver |
1995 | The birth of Diego Loyzaga, Filipino actor |
1996 | The birth of Josh Allen, American football player |
1996 | The birth of Indy de Vroome, Dutch tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Karen Khachanov, Russian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Ivan De Santis, Italian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Sisca Folkertsma, Dutch footballer |
1997 | The birth of Viktoria Petryk, Ukrainian singer-songwriter |
1997 | The birth of Kevin Quinn, American actor and singer |
2002 | The birth of Elena Huelva, Spanish cancer activist and influencer (d. 2023) |
2013 | The death of Bob Thompson, American pianist and composer (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Dominique Venner, French journalist and historian (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Tunku Annuar, Malaysian son of Badlishah of Kedah (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Johnny Gray, American baseball player (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan physician and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Alireza Soleimani, Iranian wrestler (b. 1956) |
2015 | The death of Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (b. 1969) |
2015 | The death of Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Jassem Al-Kharafi, Kuwaiti businessman and politician, 8th Kuwaiti Speaker of the National Assembly (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Fred Gladding, American baseball player and coach (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Louis Johnson, American bass player and producer (b. 1955) |
2016 | The death of Nick Menza, American drummer and songwriter (b. 1964) |
2019 | The death of Rik Kuypers, Belgian film director (b. 1925) |
2019 | The death of Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (b. 1971) |
2020 | The death of Alan Merten, fifth President of George Mason University (b. 1941) |
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