For a time in the 1960s and 70s, the mezzo-soprano Anna Reynolds, who has died aged 82, was constantly in demand in opera house and concert hall. Her repertoire ranged wide, from Bach to modern works, but her greatest achievement was probably singing Wagner parts at the Bayreuth festival (1970-75), where she undertook Fricka and Waltraute in The Ring and Magdalene in Die Meistersinger. She also took part in Herbert von Karajan's cycle at Salzburg and the Metropolitan, New York.
Born Ann Reynolds in Canterbury, she went to Benenden school in Kent and then to the Royal Academy of Music in London, initially as a pianist. After her talent as a singer was recognised, she studied in Rome, and made her stage debut at Parma in 1960 as Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
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