Glenys Linos

Glenys Linos (born Glenys Birch; 29 September 1937 – 30 January 2020) was a British operatic mezzo-soprano. She appeared under the name Glenys Loulis until 1974. She performed widely across Europe from the 1960s to the early 1990s, appearing at major opera houses including the Opernhaus Zürich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra de Paris, Royal Opera House, and La Scala.

Life and career Glenys Birch was born in Cairo on 29 September 1937 and the title role in Othmar Schoeck's Penthesilea in 1984. as Clairon in Capriccio in Bologna in 1987, in 1985 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Lucretia in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, at the Opéra-Comique as Laura in Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest and at the Oper Frankfurt as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. In 1986 she also performed as Ermengarde in Spontini's Agnese di Hohenstaufen in Rome. After her performing career, Linos taught singing in Zürich, at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and from 2002 in Vienna, where she lived until her death.