Helen Donath
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Helen Donath.
Born: July 10, 1940
Place of Birth: Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
Known For
Dalli Dalli
The Turn of the Screw
Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is gradually convinced have been corrupted by the ghosts of a previous manservant and governess…
Cosi Fan Tutte
There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheless, the splendid singing and acting transform the story, normally treated as farce, into something considerably more serious. As many other critics have noted, the young lovers have not yet sorted everything out as this performance ends. Act One begins with the principal characters running around in the outdoor theater -- while the audience takes it in as if they had been advised to sit back and enjoy the novelty. Very likely they were also asked to refrain from applauding at the end of arias and ensemble pieces, in which the three-hour opera abounds.
Bach: St. John Passion
Karl Richter conducts Bach's Johannes-Passion with the Muenchner Bach Chor & Orchestra.
Bach: St. Mathew Passion
Karl Richter conducts Peter Schreier, Ernst Gerold Schramm, Siegmund Nimsgern, Helen Donath, Julia Hamari, Horst R. Laubenthal, Walter Berry, and Muenchner Bach Chor & Orchestra in 1971.
Filmography
as Despina
as Governess (voice)
as Self
as Soprano