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Jane Manning: always amenable and a friend to composers whatever their demands Credit: Magnus-Lewinska, Mayotte/ Bridgeman Images  Jane Manning, who has died aged 82, was the go-to British soprano for contemporary music and an indispensable friend to many modern composers, giving the first performances of more than 350 works by the likes of Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle and her husband Anthony Payne. The critic Edward Greenfield wrote in awe of how she was able to defy the laws of musical gravity when tackling avant-garde music’s craggy altitudes. Where many singers would be...

Hugh Beresford obituary Hugh Beresford was already successful with his high baritone voice but in the 1970s retrained as a tenor Hugh Beresford was already successful with his high baritone voice but in the 1970s retrained as a tenor PatUpstone Sun 17 Jan 2021 07.25 EST Last modified on Tue 19 Jan 2021 15.44 EST My brother, Hugh Beresford, who has died aged 94, was a successful opera singer whose career took him all over the world, performing in major roles at all the big houses for more than 30 years. Hugh was born James Ennis (known to his family and friends as Jimmie) in Birkenhead, Wirral...