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Prima Diva Margaret Preece as the voice of Carlotta from the original motion picture - The Phantom of The Opera.
5 *****
“But it is the Mother Abbess
(Margaret Preece) who is in danger of stealing Maria’s star crown. Her voice, which brings an operatic tone to the production is breathtaking and makes songs such as My Favourite things and Climb Every Mountain really stand out. ”
— The Sound of music…[london palladium]
Biography
Margaret is an international operatic and musical theatre singer, actor and recording artist. She has performed numerous leading and diverse operatic and musical theatre roles with all the major opera companies in the UK, and many abroad, working with conductors and directors of international acclaim.
Additional credits include Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre, London), in addition to singing the entire role in the film for Minnie Driver (also appearing in the film as The Confidante); The Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music at The London Palladium followed by its UK tour, reprising the role in productions in Jordan, Cairo and Dubai; Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady (Big League Productions NYC, China Tour); Eleanor Roosevelt in a new musical play, Melania (Glasgow) and The Empress in Alladin (Tewkesbury).
Acting roles include Jean in the UK tour of Victoria Wood’s Dinner Ladies; Bacchai (National Theatre and Epidaurus, Greece with Sir Peter Hall); Mrs Fflyte in the comedy play The Messiah! (UK tour); Mrs McGee in Corpse! (Vienna’s English Theatre); Lady Bracknell in Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Marion in Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular and Mrs. Flint in Coward’s This Happy Breed at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Most recently: Mother Superior in Sister Act, (English Theatre, Frankfurt).
COACHING
Drawing from her successful global career both as a singer and an actor, Maggie loves enabling others, and offers vocal and performance coaching in most music genres, including operatic/ classical repertoire and Musical Theatre * plays and speeches * presentations * auditions * communication, confidence and performance skills to individuals both within and without the business environment.
Agent Details:
Simon Pontin, Leodis Talent
simon@leodistalent.com