Amanda Holden, 73, pianist, librettist, translator and editor

[Michael Rhodes]

Amanda Holden, who died 9 September 2021, aged 73, was a British pianist, librettist, translator, editor and academic teacher. She is known for translating opera librettos to more contemporary English for the English National Opera, and for writing new librettos, especially in collaboration with Brett Dean. She contributed to encyclopedias such as the New Penguin Opera Guide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Holden_(writer)

[Michael Rhodes]

Amanda Holden, who died 7 September, 2021, aged 73, was a British pianist, librettist, translator, editor and academic teacher. She is known for translating opera librettos to more contemporary English for the English National Opera, and for writing new librettos, especially in collaboration with Brett Dean. She contributed to encyclopedias such as the New Penguin Opera Guide.

She was born Amanda Warren, 19 January, 1948, daughter of Sir Harold Brian Seymour Warren [1914-96], a medical officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his wife Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes, DBE [1912-99], the obstetrician and gynaecologist.

Amanda Warren married 1 May, 1971, as his first wife, Anthony Ivan Holden [born 22 May, 1947], the biographer, journalist and broadcaster, scion of the Holden baronets, second son of John Holden [1918-85], by his wife Margaret Lois Sharpe [d 1985], and a grandson of Sir George Holden, 2nd Baronet [1890-1937].

Amanda Holden leaves three sons.

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