Lois McDonall from the Seraglio" by Mozart. In following seasons she performed Fiordiligi from "Così fan tutte", the Countess in "Le nozze di Figaro", Roselinda in "Die Fledermaus", Antonia in "The Tales of Hoffmann", Leonora in "Il trovatore", Freia in "Das Rheingold", Hanna in "The Merry Widow", the title role in Massenet's "Manon", Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier", Violetta in "La traviata", Miss Jessel in "The Turn of the Screw" and she created the title role in Iain Hamilton's "Anna Karenina". Lois McDonall spent 14 years as a resident artist with the English National Opera. In addition to her tenure at the ENO,
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