Eaglen has be known for her portrayal of Brünnhilde within Wagner's Ring cycle and Bellini's Norma. Her number one recording featured these contrastive roles by conferred Wagner & Bellini scenes & arias.

Eaglen was natural around Lincoln, England and started piano lessons at the age of 5. Her piano teacher suggested that she require voice lessons, which she did for the year sustaining a local teacher. Eaglen relates that her teacher predicted that she would someday sing Brünnhilde & Norman, though she did non fully appreciate what this intended at a period. [http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/fss/jeaglen/bio.htm]

Eaglen was turned down per Guildhall School of Music but Joseph Ward, a prof at a Royal Northern College of Music, recognized her potential upon a eighteen-month-old's audition. Ward taught her a style of Bellini & Wagner, though she did non possess a necessary vocal range to sing very much of their treble repertoire at a period.

Around 1984, she joined the English National Opera. She mostly received bit part there, though she performed a role of Santuzza inside Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana to great eclat.

Eaglen received plaudits for deuce songs she sang in the soundtrack for the popular 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. A songs were musical recitals of ii verse form, "Weep You No More Sad Fountains" (creator unknown) & "The Dreame" (Ben Jonson). A soundtrack enjoyed peachy commercial message & critical profits, existence nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score. This profits brought her to the attention of the wider musical globe.

Eaglen broke into a major opera scene after she wwhen cast as Donna Anna inside Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Scottish Opera. She went in to sing Tosca and Norma with that company.

Eaglen sang her number 1 Brünnhilde by using a Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1996. Her number 1 Isolde came in 1998 with the Seattle Opera, a company she has returned to systematically. She repeated a role inside 1999 inside Chicago and in 2000 at the Metropolitan Opera.

She likewise plays numerous of the leading roles in the standard Italian repertoire, including Turandot, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.

Eaglen is equally home on the concert stage & has recorded, among others, Verdi's Requiem. She has an exclusive recording locate Sony Classical. Her 2002 recording of Tannhäuser received a Grammy Award in 2003 for Best Opera Recording.

She today makes her zero in Seattle with her husband, Bryan Lyson. Eaglen gave humourous insight into her have personality by revealing that she prepares for her performances by listening to the pop music singer Meat Loaf.