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English countertenor Charles Brett is one of the leading specialists of the Baroque choral and oratorio repertoire. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, making his London debut in 1965 in a performance of <a href="spotify:artist:5aIqB5nVVvmFsvSdExz408">Bach</a>'s Magnificat. In 1983, he co-founded the Amaryllis Consort, of which he was also the director. He has made numerous recordings, including Purcell's Fairy Queen (under the baton of <a href="spotify:artist:7MJ1pB5d6Vjmzep2zQlorn">Benjamin Britten</a>) and birthday odes, <a href="spotify:artist:5aIqB5nVVvmFsvSdExz408">Bach</a>'s Mass in B minor, and several <a href="spotify:artist:1QL7yTHrdahRMpvNtn6rI2">Handel</a> oratorios. Brett has been less active on the opera stage, but even there he has appeared in some notable productions. His operatic debut was at Graz in 1984, in a revival of Angelica vincitrice di Alcina by <a href="spotify:artist:7Msitr7N39gsSU8nDUEWX5">J.J. Fux</a>. At the Ludwigsburg Festival, he sang Athamas in a German-language version of <a href="spotify:artist:1QL7yTHrdahRMpvNtn6rI2">Handel</a>'s Semele. He toured France with <a href="spotify:artist:7vfydQ0nVBVgJ0ajs8EtRM">Gluck</a>'s La clemenza di Tito with the conductor <a href="spotify:artist:0Dm0OYp3kyz8ML9Pkh4uwu">Jean-Claude Malgoire</a>, and sang <a href="spotify:artist:7MJ1pB5d6Vjmzep2zQlorn">Britten</a>'s Oberon in 1987 at Aachen.
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