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Agnes Baltsa
Agnes Baltsa (Aγνή Mπάλτσα) (born 19 November 1944 in Lefkada) is a leading Greek mezzo-soprano.
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Ambroise Thomas
Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (5 August 1811, Metz – 12 February 1896, Paris) was a French composer, best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 till his death.
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Anne Sofie von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano.
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Bizet
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Blanche Thebom
Blanche Thebom (September 19, 1915March 23, 2010) was an American mezzo-soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for almost twenty years.
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Brigitte Fassbaender
Brigitte Fassbaender (; born 3 July, 1939), is mezzo-soprano opera singer, and since 1995 a theatre director. She holds the title Kammersängerin from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Vienna Staatsoper.
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Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók ( (Wells 1990), ) (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns () (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, and his Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony).
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Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli (; born June 4, 1966 in Rome) is an Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best-known for her interpretation of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and classical music. She is known for having the versatility to play both soprano and mezzo roles, and is sometimes considered a soprano with a low tessitura. Bartoli's coloratura skill has earned her the title the Queen of Agility.
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Charles Gounod
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Christa Ludwig
Christa Ludwig (born 16 March 1928) is a German mezzo-soprano (now retired), distinguished for her performances of opera, Lieder, oratorio and other major religious works like masses and passions, and solos contained in symphonic literature. Her career spanned from the late 1940s until the early 1990s.
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Célestine Marié
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Denyce Graves
Denyce Graves (born March 7, 1964 in Washington, D.C.) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
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Dolora Zajick
Dolora Zajick (pronounced ZAH jick) (born 24 March 1952 in Salem, Oregon) is an American mezzo-soprano who specializes in the Verdian repertoire. Zajick is arguably the leading exponent in the dramatic Verdian mezzo-soprano repertoire.
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Ebe Stignani
Ebe Stignani (July 10, 1903 [or 1904] - October 5, 1974) was an Italian opera singer, who was pre-eminent in the dramatic mezzo-soprano roles of the Italian repertoire during a stage career of more than thirty years.
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Elena Obraztsova
Elena Vasiliyevna Obraztsova () (b. in Leningrad, now St Petersburg Russia, on July 7, 1939) is a Russian mezzo-soprano, widely recognised as one of the greatest opera singers of all time, thanks to her outstanding stage presence and the vocal abilities..
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Elīna Garanča
Elīna Garanča (born September 16, 1976) is a Latvian operatic mezzo-soprano.
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Fedora Barbieri
Fedora Barbieri (4 June 1920, Trieste – 4 March 2003 Florence) was an Italian mezzo-soprano.
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Fiorenza Cossotto
Fiorenza Cossotto is an Italian mezzo soprano. She is considered by many to be one of the great mezzo-sopranos of the 20th century, a natural successor to Giulietta Simionato.
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Francesco Cilea
Francesco Cilea (also Cilèa) (July 23, 1866 – November 20, 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas ''L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur''.
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Frederica von Stade
Frederica von Stade (born June 1, 1945), is an American mezzo-soprano. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she acquired the nickname Flicka in her childhood. Von Stade attended the Mannes College of Music in New York City. She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1970 and in 1971 appeared as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro at the Santa Fe Opera. "It was two of the newcomers who left the audience dazzled: Frederica von Stade as Cherubino and Kiri Te Kanawa as the Countess. Everyone knew at once that these were brilliant finds. History has confirmed that first impression."
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Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), although arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from ''L'elisir d'amore (1832). Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto'' opera.
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Gail Dubinbaum
Gail Dubinbaum (born 1957) is an American operatic coloratura mezzo-soprano and co-founder and Creative Director of the Phoenix Metropolitan Opera.
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Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the Romantic era. He is best known for the opera Carmen.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years.
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La cenerentola and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell (William Tell). A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which led to the nickname "The Italian Mozart." Until his retirement in 1829, Rossini had been the most popular opera composer in history.
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Giulietta Simionato
Giulietta Simionato (12 May 1910, Forli – 5 May 2010, Rome) was an Italian mezzo-soprano. Her career spanned from the 1930s until her retirement in 1966. Simionato was much admired for vibrant singing in a remarkably wide repertoire, excelling in both dramatic and comic roles and in lyric and heavier repertoire. She was in demand at every major opera house and worked with the greatest conductors of the time. She had a special rapport with both of the reigning sopranos of her day, Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, and was widely admired by colleagues and audiences alike for her warmth, sense of humor, and professionalism.
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Gladys Swarthout
Gladys Swarthout (b. December 25, 1900, Deepwater, Missouri - d. July 7, 1969, Florence, Italy) was an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
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Grace Bumbry
Grace Bumbry (born January 4, 1937) is an American opera singer, and is considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, as well as a major soprano for many years. She was a member of an extraordinary and pioneering generation of singers who followed Marian Anderson (including Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett and Reri Grist) in the world of classical music and paved the way for future African-American opera and classical singers. Bumbry's voice was rich and sizable, possessing a wide range, and was capable of producing a very distinctive plangent tone. In her prime, she also possessed good agility and bel canto technique (see for example her renditions of the 'Veil Song' from Verdi's Don Carlo in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as her Ernani from the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1984). She was particularly noted for her fiery temperament and dramatic intensity on stage. More recently, she has also become known as a recitalist and interpreter of lieder, and as a teacher. From the late 1980s on, she seemed to concentrate her career in Europe, rather than in the US. A long time resident of Switzerland, she now makes her home in Salzburg, Austria.
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Graciela Araya
Graciela Araya (born May 16, 1962) is an Austrian mezzo-soprano of Chilean birth who has had a prolific international opera career since the early 1980s. Though her repertoire is extensive, her signature part is the title role in Carmen which she has performed over 400 times.
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Handel
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Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a conductor, he performed several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs.
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Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (; 10 September 1659 (?) – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music.
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Händel
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Irina Arkhipova
Irina Konstantinovna Arkhipova () (2 January 192511 February 2010) was a Russian mezzo-soprano, and later contralto, opera singer. She sang leading roles first in Russia at the Sverdlovsk Opera and the Bolshoi Theater, and then throughout Europe and in the United States.
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Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (born Jacob Offenbach; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. Of German-Jewish ancestry, he was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory.
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Janet Baker
Dame Janet Abbott Baker, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.
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Jennifer Larmore
Jennifer Larmore (born June 21, 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer, noted for coloratura and bel canto.
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Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899; also known as fully Johann Baptist Strauss, and Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son () was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.
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Josephine Veasey
Josephine Veasey (born on July 10, 1930) is a British mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with Wagner and Berlioz
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Joyce DiDonato
Joyce DiDonato (born February 13, 1969) is an award winning American operatic mezzo-soprano particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of Handel, Mozart, and Rossini. DiDonato has performed with many of the world's leading opera companies and orchestras.
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Jules Massenet
Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas fell into almost total oblivion. Apart from Manon and Werther, his works were rarely performed. However, since the mid-1970s, many operas of his such as Thaïs and Esclarmonde have undergone periodic revivals.
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Magdalena Kožená
Magdalena Kožená (born 1973) is a Czech mezzo-soprano. She was born in Brno, the daughter of a mathematician father and a biologist mother. Her original goal was to be a pianist, but she broke her hand at the age of six and switched to singing, starting in the Brno Philharmonic children's choir. She studied at the Brno Conservatoire and at the College of Performing Arts in Bratislava, and graduated in 1995. In 1995, she was a prize winner at the International Mozart Competition. From 1996-97, she was a member of the Vienna Volksoper.
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Malena Ernman
Sara Magdalena "Malena" Ernman (born November 4, 1970 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish opera singer (mezzo-soprano). Ernman is a versatile artist in her field, who outside the world of opera and operettas also has performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, appeared in musicals and she is a performer who's declared that she's very much attracted to the attributes of varité theatre and small, intimate stage rooms. Ernman represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Malena Ernman is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934, Bradford, Pennsylvania) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring a large sound, beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (also spelled Musorgsky, Moussorgsky ) (March 21 [O.S. March 9], 1839 – March 28 [O.S. March 16], 1881), one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
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Monteverdi
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Mozart
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Olga Borodina
Olga Borodina (born 29 July 1963 in Saint Petersburg) is a leading dramatic mezzo-soprano, known for her roles in Russian operas at her home company, the Mariinsky Theatre, and for her international performing and recording career in a varied repertoire.
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Regina Resnik
Regina Resnik (born August 30, 1922) is an American operatic singer.
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Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known particularly for his operas, Lieder, and tone poems. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the extraordinary late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. Strauss's music had a profound influence on the development of music in the twentieth century. Strauss was also a prominent conductor.
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (, ; 22 May 1813 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. Unlike most other opera composers, Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his stage works. Famous extracts from his operas include the "Ride of the Valkyries" and the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, popularly known as the wedding march "Here Comes the Bride".
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Risë Stevens
Risë Stevens (; born June 11, 1913, New York City) is a retired American operatic mezzo-soprano who captured a wide popular audience at the height of her career (1940–1960).
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Rita Gorr
Rita Gorr (born 18 February 1926), is a Belgian operatic mezzo-soprano, she possessed a large, rich-toned voice and was an intense singing-actress, especially in dramatic roles such as Ortrud (Lohengrin) and Amneris (Aida), two of her greatest roles.
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Rossini
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Shirley Verrett
Shirley Verrett (born May 31, 1931) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano who successfully transitioned into soprano roles i.e. soprano sfogato. Verrett enjoyed great fame from the late 1960s through the 1990s and was much admired for her radiant voice, beauty, and great versatility. She was particularly well known for her singing in French and Italian opera, particularly works of Verdi and Donizetti.
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Stephanie Blythe
Stephanie Blythe is a Mezzo-Soprano opera singer.
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Susan Graham
Susan Graham (born July 23, 1960, Roswell, New Mexico) is an American mezzo-soprano.
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Tatiana Troyanos
Tatiana Troyanos (Greek: Τατιάνα Τρωϊάνου, Tatiána Trōïánou, September 12, 1938 – August 21, 1993) was an American mezzo-soprano of Greek and German descent.
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Teresa Berganza
Teresa Berganza, born on March 16, 1935), is a Spanish mezzo-soprano. She is most closely associated with the roles of Rossini, Mozart, and Bizet. She is admired for her technical virtuosity, musical intelligence and beguiling stage presence.
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Verdi
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Vesselina Kasarova
Vesselina Kasarova (born 18 July 1965) is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.
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Viorica Cortez
Viorica Cortez (born December 26, 1935 in Bucium, Iaşi County, Romania) is a noted Romanian-born mezzo-soprano, later French by naturalisation. Starting her operatic and concert career in the mid-1960s, she went on to become one of the most prominent female performers of the '70s and '80s. An example of professional longevity, she is present on some of the most prestigious European opera scenes.
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Vivaldi
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Vivica Genaux
Vivica Genaux (born in Fairbanks, Alaska) is an American mezzo-soprano. Her father, an American of Belgian-Welsh descent, was a biochemistry professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her mother, Mexican-born of Swiss-German extraction, was a language teacher. She has sung in major operas such as The Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera, L'italiana in Algeri at Opéra National de Paris, and La Cenerentola with Dallas Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper.
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Wagner
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Waltraud Meier
Waltraud Meier (born January 9, 1956 in Würzburg) is a Grammy-award winning German dramatic soprano and mezzo-soprano singer. She is particularly known for her Wagnerian roles as Kundry, Isolde, Ortrud, Venus and Sieglinde, but has also had success in the French and Italian repertoire appearing as Eboli, Amneris, Carmen and Santuzza. She resides in Munich.
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Berlin State Opera
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera) is a German opera company. Its permanent home is the Opera House on the Unter den Linden boulevard in Berlin.
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Haifa
Haifa ( ; ) is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 265,000. Another 300,000 people (almost all of them Jewish) live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, and Nesher. Together these areas form a contiguous urban area home to nearly 600,000 residents which makes up the inner core of the Haifa metropolitan area. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs, although Jews make up a 90% majority. The Arab population used to be predominantly Christian, while 28% of the Jewish population is from the Former Soviet Union. It is also home to the Bahá'í World Centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Israel
Israel (, ''Yisrā'el; , Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , Medīnat Yisrā'el; , Dawlat Isrā'īl''), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government.
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opera
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Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania () is a U.S. state and Commonwealth located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to the east. The state's four most populous cities are Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie. The state capital is Harrisburg.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia () is the largest city in Pennsylvania, sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the fifty-first most populous city in the world.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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- Aida
- Alcina
- Ambroise Thomas
- Anne Sofie von Otter
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- Ariodante
- baroque music
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- Bizet
- Blanche Thebom
- Bluebeard's Castle
- Brigitte Fassbaender
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- Béla Bartók
- Caitlin Hulcup
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Carmen
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- Cecilia Bartoli
- Charles Gounod
- Christa Ludwig
- Cinderella
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- Così fan tutte
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- Denyce Graves
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- Fach
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- Fedora Barbieri
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- Francesco Cilea
- Frederica von Stade
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Gail Dubinbaum
- Georges Bizet
- Gian Carlo Menotti
- Gioachino Rossini
- Giulietta Simionato
- Giulio Cesare
- Gladys Swarthout
- Grace Bumbry
- Graciela Araya
- Griselda (Vivaldi)
- Handel
- Hector Berlioz
- Henry Purcell
- Händel
- Idomeneo
- Il trovatore
- Irina Arkhipova
- Italian language
- Jacques Offenbach
- Janet Baker
- Jennifer Larmore
- Johann Strauss II
- Josephine Veasey
- Joyce DiDonato
- Jules Massenet
- La Cenerentola
- La clemenza di Tito
- La Favorite
- La Gioconda (opera)
- Le nozze di Figaro
- Les Troyens
- Lohengrin (opera)
- Macbeth (opera)
- Madama Butterfly
- Magdalena Kožená
- Malena Ernman
- Maria Gay
- Marilyn Horne
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- Sonia Ganassi
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- Stephanie Blythe
- Strauss
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- Tancredi
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- Teresa Berganza
- tessitura
- Tristan und Isolde
- trouser role
- Verdi
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Carmen Seguidilla: Rinat Shaham mezzo-soprano
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- Duration: 4:36
- Published: 15 Jun 2006
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- Author: mariacallus
Rinat Shaham, or as her fans know her "Rini" is the best Carmen on the Opera Scene today. This is my favourite rendition of Carmen's Seguidilla Aria (with Gordon Gietz as Don Jose), taped: May 2005. join Rinat's fanclub on Facebook: www.facebook.com
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Joyce DiDonato - Echo Klassik 2010
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- Duration: 8:31
- Published: 21 Oct 2010
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- Author: thecelticspirit
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato performing "Tanti affetti", from Rossini's Donna del Lago, during the Echo Klassik award, Germany, October 17, 2010. Live on German TV. No copyright infringement intended.
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19 year old Mezzo Soprano sings aria of Azzuchena
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- Duration: 1:44
- Published: 24 Sep 2007
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- Author: mastervlad
19 year old Mezzo Soprano, Lena Belkina , sings aria of Azzuchena from Trovatore.
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Master Class Series with Mezzo-Soprano Denyce Graves
Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, one of today's most exciting vocal stars, coaches Boston University voice students during a 90-minute public master class. Hosted by Opera Institute and voice department at the school of music in the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 13, 2006.
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Frank Bridge: Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, Viola, and Piano (1907)
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- Published: 24 Nov 2010
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Rebecca Ringle, Mezzo-Soprano Luke Fleming, Viola, Roger Steptoe, Piano Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, Viola, and Piano (1907) Frank Bridge (1879 -- 1941) I. Far, far from each other Matthew Arnold (1822 -- 1888) Far, far from each other our spirits have flown, And what heart knows another? Ah! Who knows his own? Blow, ye winds! Lift me with you! I come to the wild. Fold closely, O nature! Thine arms round thy child. Ah, calm me! Restore me and dry up my tears. On thy high mountain platforms, where morn first appears. II. Where is it that our soul doth go? Heinrich Heine (1797 -- 1856), trans. KF Kroeker One thing I'd know, When we have perished, Where is it that our soul doth go? Where, where is the fire, that is extinguished? Where is the wind? Where is the wind but now did blow? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it that our soul doth go? When we have perished. III. Music, when soft voices die Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 -- 1822) Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the belovèd's bed. And so my thoughts when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
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Caroline Olsen, Mezzo-Soprano
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- Published: 29 Dec 2009
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A sample of classical vocal repertoire, as sung by Caroline Olsen, a seventeen-year-old Mezzo-Soprano from Los Angeles. "Dove Sei, Amato Bene?" - GF Handel "Seligkeit" - Franz Schubert "Tous Deux" - Reynaldo Hahn "Secrets of the Old" - Samuel Barber
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Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne
Legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne discusses her career in music and her return to Carnegie Hall. Her acclaimed vocal festival "The Song Continues..." takes place January 1922, and includes master classes with renowned artists, including Ms. Horne, conductor James Levine, and pianist Warren Jones, and recitals by Marilyn Horne Foundation artists and special guests.
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Olga Borodina - Don Carlo - O Don Fatale
Olga Borodina as Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo. Apologies for the black and white and blurry image.
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Mezzo Soprano Cindy Sadler/Il tabarro
Mezzo-soprano Cindy Sadler (with soprano Mardi Byers) sings Frugola's aria "Se tu sapessi gli'ogetti strani) from Puccini's Il tabarro.
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Mezzo soprano recording GF Handel "I know my redeemer liveth"
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- Published: 04 Apr 2008
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Recording a college demo at age 17 www.facebook.com www.puretalentonline.com
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Beautiful Mezzosoprano Voice A capella
Download: www.ziddu.com When I must once and for all depart, then do not depart from me; when I must suffer death, then stand by me; when my heart will be most fearful, then snatch me from the terrors by the virtue of your own fear and pain! Appear to me as my shield, as comfort in my death, and grant that I may see your image in your agony on the cross! Then I shall look towards you, then full of faith I shall press you closely to my heart. To die in this way is to die well.
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Krása: Symphony / Vogel · Rattle · Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker
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- Published: 17 May 2010
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Full-length concert at www.digitalconcerthall.com Hans Krása: Symphony for mezzo-soprano and small orchestra / Eva Vogel, mezzo-soprano · Sir Simon Rattle, conductor · Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, 31 October 2009. The Berliner Philharmoniker's Digital Concert Hall: www.digital-concert-hall.com Subscribe to our newsletter www.digitalconcerthall.com The Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker: www.berliner-philharmoniker.de Website of the Berliner Philharmoniker: www.berliner-philharmoniker.de
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Vocal warmup #1 for Mezzo-Soprano
5 note scale descending/ascending/descending in an appropriate range for Mezzo Soprano. More information: utsstudios.com
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Cosi Fan tutte 1996 - Dorabella 2nd aria
Susan Graham as Dorabella, with Susan Chilcott playing Fiordiligi Paris - Garnier 1996
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Monique Holmes, Mezzo Soprano
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- Duration: 28:37
- Published: 12 Dec 2009
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- Author: urbanwallstreet
This In-Studio series spotlights Mezzo-Soprano vocalist, Monique Holmes, who is also a candidate to receive her DMA (Doctorate in Musical Arts) May 2010. She is truly an amazing talent!
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Mezzo Soprano sings "Habanera" - at Kendal Spring Concert
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- Published: 05 Jun 2008
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Singing with the Kendal chorus, conducted by Rosemarie Serrano. www.facebook.com www.puretalentonline.com
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Malena Ernman (Mezzo-Soprano) Vocal Range 3.5 octaves {C3-F6}
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- Published: 06 Nov 2011
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The prodigious vocal range of Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman, a singer whose vocalism I admire. Her voice has the richness of a contralto but her upper register is free like that of a soprano, and she has natural agility. She is versatile enough to sing both opera and pop. Given her range, agility and versatility, I consider her a true Soprano Sfogato.
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"Redejet oblakov...": Liliana Seyid-Boussonville, mezzo-soprano & Marina Kavtaradze, piano
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- Published: 22 Sep 2011
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N.Rimsky-Korsakov "Redejet oblakov letuchaja grjada" ("The flying chain of clouds is thinning in the sky") Art song Liliana Seyid-Boussonville, mezzo-soprano Marina Kavtaradze, piano Voelklingen, April 2011 Saarland, Germany Video: VAM United Photos: Sergey Khrustalyov & Claus Huhn "The flying chain of clouds is thinning in the sky. O you, the Evening Star, the star of woe on high, Your beam is silvering the distant withered plains, And both the dreamy bay, and murky rocky chains. I love your vague glow there in the heavenly height; And all my sleepy thoughts were woken by your light. I do remember you, o star how you were rising, Above the peaceful land where everything was pleasing, Where slender poplars raised their crowns above the dales, Where tender myrtles slept and cypress in dark veils, Where in the middle of day the songs of waves were haunting. Long time ago when I was there upon the mountain Above the sea I dragged my thoughtful laziness, When all the huts were drowned into the sleepiness, A maid who looked for you into the darkness came And to her lady friends she called you by her name." by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
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Naomi O' Connell, Mezzo-soprano (Rossini)
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- Published: 22 Dec 2011
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Naomi O'Connell and Brent Funderburk (piano) perform Rossini's song cycle "La Regata Veneziana" at the Steans Musical Institute at Ravinia: Anzoleta avanti la regata Anzoleta co passa la regatta (03:36) Anzoleta dopo la regata (06:05) Song translations: www.recmusic.org Hailed by the New York Times as "a radiant mezzo-soprano," Naomi O'Connell is the First Prize Winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, and she also garnered First Prize at the Altamura/Caruso International Voice Competition, which took place just two weeks after CAG's 60th Annual International competition in October. In the past year, Ms. O'Connell performed with the New York Festival of Song in their 'Roadtrip' concert at Alice Tully Hall, where critics hailed her performance as "evocative, appealing and expressive". In January, she performed for the Juilliard FOCUS! Festival, which was be podcast worldwide by WQXR's Q2 channel. Ms. O'Connell made her Lincoln Center debut last March in the Juilliard Honors Recital at Alice Tully Hall with pianist Brent Funderburk. She spent the summer 2011 at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and the Steans Musical Institute at Ravinia where performed chamber music including Ravel's Chansons Madécasses, Strauss' Op. 27 songs, Rossini's La Regata Veneziana and Bernstein's Arias and Barcarolles. Upcoming engagements include the role of Zerlina in the Juilliard Opera production of Don Giovanni in April 2012, and her professional operatic <b>...</b>
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Elena Cernei The Romanian mezzo-soprano
Please visit en.wikipedia.org , the blog elena-cernei.blogspot.com and for more videos www.youtube.com (Elena Cernei's husband Dr. Stephan Poen channel) Elena Cernei : Semiramide-Ah, quel giorno ognor rammento (G.Rossini) The Romanian Radiotelevision Studio Orchestra, conductor Ludovic Bacs The text used on the video: The greatest Romanian mezzo-sopranos of the 20th century Elena Cernei. She was born on 1 march 1924 in Bairamcea near Cetatea Alba. Despite of communism regime, she made an international career. Title roles in G.Bizet's Carmen and C.Saint Saens's - Samson et Dalila made her known all around the world. She was the last mezzo-soprano act as Amneris at the Old Metropolitan in the last performances of "Aida" before closing down and the first as Amneris in the inaugural performance at the New Metropolitan. Her partners where the greatest actors of the Metropolitan Opera like : Franco Corelli,Leontyne Price,Birgit Nilsson,Richard Tucker,Robert Merrill,Jon Vickers and etc. Her last aparence at Met on 2.10.1968 was the famous performance of F.Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur with the Great Renata Tebaldi and Plácido Domingo (who replaced Franco Corelli because of illness). piu grande Carmen della mia carriera Giuseppe di Stefano una ideale interprete di Amneris per la dinamica vocale e interpretativa di grande classe Franco Corelli una magnifica voce dallunico fascino Mario del Monaco mezzosoprano dalla voce ed interpretazione singolari Plácido Domingo After retire Cernei <b>...</b>
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Vocal Warm ups with mezzo soprano (Hazel Burns) by Franco Tenelli
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Lesson with Hazel Burns(mezzo). Grauated from BC universiy(voice) and holding Master's degree(McGill) in recordings, Hazel is continuing working on her voice technique with me.
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Ann Hogan mezzo soprano - The Tale of the Oyster
Cole Porter - The Tale of the Oyster Ann Hogan, mezzo soprano performed a lunchtime recital in St. Anne's Church, Dawson St, Dublin 2 on Thursday 8th May. Ann was joined by Dearbhla Collins on piano. Music was by DuParc, Rachmaninov, Purcell, Ned Rorem, Cole Porter and George Gershwin.
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Mezzo-soprano Natalia Krivenok, St.Petersburg, Russia
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Rossigni, "Italiana en Algery", Isabella`s aria
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A mezzo-soprano ( in English, but in Italian) (meaning "medium" or "middle" "soprano" in Italian) is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e. A3-A5 in scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C4). In the lower and upper extremes, some mezzo-sopranos may extend down to the G below middle C (G3) and as high as "high C" (C6).
While mezzo-sopranos generally have a heavier, darker tone than sopranos, the mezzo-soprano voice resonates in a higher range than that of a contralto. The terms ''Dugazon'' and ''Galli-Marié'' are sometimes used to refer to light mezzo-sopranos, after the names of famous singers. A castrato with a vocal range equivalent to a mezzo-soprano's range is referred to as a ''mezzo-soprano castrato'' or ''mezzista''. Today, however, only women should be referred to as mezzo-sopranos; men singing within the female range are called countertenors. In current operatic practice, female singers with very low tessituras are often included among mezzo-sopranos, because singers in both ranges are able to cover the other, and true operatic contraltos are very rare. For information regarding non-classical mezzo-sopranos see Voice classification in non-classical music.
Mezzo-sopranos typically sing secondary roles in operas; notable exceptions include the title role in Bizet's ''Carmen'', Angelina (Cinderella) in Rossini's La Cenerentola, and Rosina in Rossini's ''Barber of Seville'' (all of which are also sung by sopranos). Typical roles for mezzo-sopranos include the stereotypical triad associated with contraltos of "witches, bitches, and britches": witches, nurses, and wise women, such as Azucena in Verdi's ''Il trovatore''; villains and seductresses such as Amneris in Verdi's ''Aida''; and "trouser" characters (male characters played by female singers) such as Cherubino in Mozart's ''Le nozze di Figaro''. Mezzo-sopranos are also well represented in baroque music, early music and baroque opera. However, there is a significant tradition in French-language operas of the 19th Century to give the leading female role to mezzos, as for example in ''Béatrice et Bénédict'', ''La Damnation de Faust'', ''Don Quichotte'', ''La Favorite'', ''Mignon'', ''Samson et Dalila'', ''Les Troyens'', and ''Werther'' as well as the aforementioned ''Carmen''.
Some roles designated for lighter soubrette sopranos are sung by mezzo sopranos, who often provide a fuller, more dramatic quality. Such roles include Despina in Mozart's ''Così fan tutte'' and Zerlina in his ''Don Giovanni''. Mezzos also sometimes play dramatic soprano roles such as Santuzza in Mascagni's ''Cavalleria rusticana'', Lady Macbeth in Verdi's ''Macbeth'', and Kundry in Wagner's ''Parsifal''.
In general mezzos are broken down into three categories: Coloratura mezzo-sopranos, Lyric mezzo-soprano, and Dramatic mezzo-sopranos.
Coloratura mezzo-soprano
A coloratura mezzo-soprano has a warm lower register and an agile high register. The roles they sing often demand not only the use of the lower register but also leaps into the upper tessitura with highly ornamented, rapid passages. They have a range from approximately the G below middle C (G3) to the B two octaves above middle C (B5). Some coloratura mezzo-sopranos can sing up to high C (C6) or high D (D6), but this is very rare. What distinguishes these voices from being called sopranos is their extension into the lower register and warmer vocal quality. Although coloratura mezzo-sopranos have impressive and at times thrilling high notes, they are most comfortable singing in the middle of their range, rather than the top.Many of the hero roles in the operas of Handel and Monteverdi, originally sung by male castrati, can be successfully sung today by coloratura mezzo-sopranos. Rossini demanded similar qualities for his comic heroines, and Vivaldi wrote roles frequently for this voice as well. Coloratura mezzo-sopranos also often sing lyric-mezzo soprano roles or soubrette roles.
Coloratura mezzo-soprano roles in opera and operettas
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Lyric mezzo-soprano
The Lyric mezzo-soprano has a range from approximately the G below middle C to the B two octaves above middle C. This voice has a very smooth, sensitive and at times lachrymose quality. Lyric mezzo-sopranos do not have the vocal agility of the coloratura mezzo-soprano or the size of the dramatic mezzo-soprano. The lyric mezzo-soprano is ideal for most trouser roles.
Lyric mezzo-soprano roles in opera and operettas
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Dramatic mezzo-soprano
A dramatic mezzo-soprano has a strong medium register, a warm high register and a voice that is broader and more powerful than the lyric and coloratura mezzo-sopranos. This voice has less vocal facility than the coloratura mezzo-soprano. The range of the dramatic mezzo-soprano is from approximately the G below middle C to the B two octaves above middle C. The dramatic mezzo-soprano can sing over an orchestra and chorus with ease and was often used in the 19th century opera, to portray older women, mothers, witches and evil characters. Verdi wrote many roles for this voice in the Italian repertoire and there are also a few good roles in the French Literature. The majority of these roles, however, are within the German Romantic repertoire of composers like Wagner and Strauss. Like Coloratura mezzos, dramatic mezzos are also often cast in lyric mezzo-soprano roles.
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Rinat Shaham () is an Israeli born mezzo-soprano who has received numerous accolades for her international operatic, concert and recital performances.
Rinat Shaham as Carmen – Video clip link
Life and career
Shaham was born in Haifa, Israel; her father was a music teacher. She developed an interest in theatre after attending an arts school. Shaham completed her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.Rinat Shaham has sung leading roles with the New York City Opera, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Opéra de Montréal, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Berlin State Opera, Opera Australia and many more.
Shaham has performed as soloist with symphony orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra. She has performed with some of the most eminent conductors of the day, including Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, André Previn, Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, Daniel Barenboim, Simone Young, Antonio Pappano, William Christie, David Robertson and Eiji Oue.
Rinat Shaham's many roles include the title role in Bizet's ''Carmen'', Charlotte in Massenet's ''Werther'', Dorabella in Mozart's ''Così fan tutte'', Mélisande in Debussy's ''Pelléas et Mélisande'', Cherubino in Mozart's ''The Marriage of Figaro'', Zerlina in Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'', Rosina in Rossini's ''The Barber of Seville'', and Blanche in Poulenc's ''Dialogues of the Carmelites''.
Shaham regularly appears in recitals, which play a central part in her schedule.
She is married to Australian-born violist and filmmaker Peter Bucknell. Her brother is violinist Hagai Shaham.
Recording and other media
Opera DVDs with Rinat Shaham have been produced for ''The Barber of Seville'' and ''The Marriage of Figaro''. She has recorded excerpts from operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully for Erato and Deutsche Grammophon with William Christie, and Maurice Ravel's ''L'enfant et les sortilèges'' with André Previn. Shaham's solo CD of songs by George Gershwin and Henry Purcell, ''Fantasy in Blue'' with Fuoco e Cenere ("Fire and Ashes"), was published by ATMA Classique. Shaham made her feature film debut as "The Jazz Singer" in the 2001 István Szabó film, ''Taking Sides'' with Harvey Keitel.
Awards
A winner of numerous vocal competitions, Shaham worked closely with Marilyn Horne at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and was subsequently invited to participate in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Birthday Gala at Carnegie Hall. Shaham was presented by the Foundation in several recitals in New York City and Los Angeles in 2001.
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Joyce DiDonato (born February 13, 1969) is an award-winning American operatic mezzo-soprano particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of Handel, Mozart, and Rossini. DiDonato has performed with many of the world's leading opera companies and orchestras.
Alcina in Handel's ''Alcina'' with conductor Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco, released 2009, Archiv label.
Angelina (Cenerentola) in Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'' with conductor Alberto Zedda and SWR Orchestra Kaiserslautern, released 2005, Naxos label.
Ascanio in Berlioz's ''Benvenuto Cellini'' with conductor John Nelson and Orchestre National de France, released 2005, Virgin Classics label.
Elmira in Handel's ''Floridante'' with conductor Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco, released 2007, Archiv Produktion label.
Grace Kelly in Michael Daugherty's ''Jackie O'' with conductor Christopher Larkin and Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, released 1997, Argo label.
Maslova in Tod Machover's ''Resurrection'' with conductor Patrick Summers and Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, released 1999, Albany Records.
Meg March in Mark Adamo's ''Little Women'' with conductor Katherine Ciesinski and Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, released 2001, Ondine label.
Radamisto in Handel's ''Radamisto'' with conductor Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco, released 2005, Virgin Classics label.
''Antonio Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music'' with conductor Robert King and The King's Consort, released 2005, Hyperion label.
''Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Nights Dream'' with conductor John Nelson and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, released 2003, EMI Classics label.
''Mozart: The Last Concerto 1791'' with conductor Frans Brüggen and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, released 2002, Glossa label.
''Rossini: Colbran, the Muse'', conductor Edoardo Muller and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, released 2009, Virgin Classics label.
''Furore – Mad Scenes from Operas'', conductor Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, released 2008, Virgin Classics label.
''Amor e gelosia: Handel Operatic Duets'' with Patrizia Ciofi, conductor Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco, released 2004, Virgin Classics label.
''The Deepest Desire'', accompanied by David Zobel, released 2006, Eloquentia label.
''Joyce DiDonato: Songs by Fauré, Hahn and Head · Arias by Rossini and Handel'', live recording at Wigmore Hall, accompanied by Julius Drake, released 2006, Wigmore Hall Live label.
''¡Pasión!'', accompanied by Julius Drake, released 2007, Eloquentia label.
''Diva, Divo'', with the Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opera National de Lyon under Kazushi Ono, released 2011
''William Barnewitz: Long Road Home'', DiDonato appears as a guest artist, released 2007, Avie label.
''Plácido Domingo's Operalia '98: A Tribute to Passion and Soul'', released 1998, Montblanc label.
Meg March in Mark Adamo's ''Little Women'' with conductor Katherine Ciesinski and Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, aired on PBS' ''Great Performances'' in 2001.
Rosina in Rossini's ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' with conductor Bruno Campanella and Opéra National de Paris, aired on television in 2002, released on DVD 2002.
"Gala Jean-Philippe Rameau" – Concert du 20ème anniversaire des Musiciens du Louvre, aired on television in 2003.
Dejanira in Handel's ''Hercules'' with conductor William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, and Aix-en-Provence Festival, aired on television in 2005, released on DVD 2005.
Rosina in Rossini's ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' with conductor Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House, released on DVD in 2010
Angelina in Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'' with conductor Patrick Summers at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, released on DVD in 2010
Joyce DiDonato Official Website
An interview with Joyce DiDonato, September 2008
''Yankee Diva'' Joyce DiDonato's blog
Joyce DiDonato's Management at IMG Artists
Joyce DiDonato – Virgin Classics Official Website
Joyce DiDonato – EMI Classics UK for Concert Dates and Releases in the UK
Joyce DiDonato – EMI Classics Germany
Early life and education
Joyce DiDonato was born Joyce Flaherty in Prairie Village, Kansas in 1969, the sixth of seven children in a close-knit Irish-American family. She sang in choir and musicals in high school and dreamed of becoming a Broadway star or pop singer. DiDonato entered Wichita State University (WSU) in the autumn of 1988 where she studied vocal music education. She was initially more interested in teaching high school vocal music and musical theatre and did not become interested in opera until her junior year, when she was cast in a school production of ''Die Fledermaus''. After graduating from WSU in the spring of 1992, DiDonato decided to pursue graduate studies in vocal performance at the Academy of Vocal Arts. Following her studies in Philadelphia, she was accepted in Santa Fe Opera's young artist program in 1995. While there she appeared in several minor roles and understudied for larger parts in such operas as Mozart's ''Le nozze di Figaro'', Richard Strauss' ''Salome'', Kálmán's ''Gräfin Mariza'' and the 1994 world premiere of David Lang's ''Modern Painters''. DiDonato was honored as the Outstanding Apprentice Artist by the Santa Fe Opera that year. In 1996 she became a part of Houston Grand Opera's young artist program where she sang from the autumn of 1996 to the spring of 1998. During the summer of 1997, DiDonato participated in San Francisco Opera's Merola Program.During her apprentice years, DiDonato competed in several notable vocal competitions. In 1996 she won second prize in the Eleanor McCollum Competition and was a district winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. In 1997 she won a William Matheus Sullivan Award. In 1998 she won second prize in the Operalia Competition, first place in the Stewart Awards, won the George London Competition]], and a received a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation.
Career
DiDonato began her professional career in the 1998–1999 season singing with several regional opera companies in the United States. She most notably appeared as the main heroine, Maslova, in the world premiere of Tod Machover's ''Resurrection'' with the Houston Grand Opera. She gave a recital in San Francisco that year as part of the Schwabacher recital series.In the 1999–2000 season, DiDonato performed the role of Meg in the world premiere of Mark Adamo's ''Little Women'' at Houston Grand Opera with Stephanie Novacek as Jo and Chad Shelton as Laurie. She performed the role of Cherubino in Mozart's ''Le nozze di Figaro'' with Santa Fe Opera and the role of Isabella in Rossini's ''L'italiana in Algeri'' with the New Israeli Opera. In addition, DiDonato gave a recital at New York's Morgan Library under the auspices of the George London Foundation and sang the mezzo-soprano solos in the Seattle Symphony's production of Handel's ''Messiah''.
In the 2000–2001 season, DiDonato made her debut at La Scala as Angelina in Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'', returned to Houston Grand Opera as Dorabella in Mozart's ''Così fan tutte'', and sang the mezzo-soprano solos in Bach's ''Mass in B minor'' with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and conductor John Nelson. In 2000, DiDonato received the ARIA (Awards Recognizing Individual Artistry) award, which annually recognized American "vocal artists of exceptional ability and undeniable promise". In 2003 DiDonato was the recipient of New York City Opera's Richard Gold Debut Award
In the 2003–2004 season, DiDonato made her debut with the San Francisco Opera as Rosina in Rossini's ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' and reprised the role with Houston Grand Opera. She performed Idamante in Mozart's ''Idomeneo'' with De Nederlandse Opera and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She sang the role of Ascanio in a concert performance of Berlioz's ''Benvenuto Cellini'' with the Orchestre National de France and appeared in solo recitals at the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Kansas City's Folly Theater, and Wigmore Hall among others. She sang at the Hollywood Bowl in a production of Beethoven's ''Symphony No. 9'' with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
In the 2004–2005 season, DiDonato made her debut with the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Elisabetta in Donizetti's ''Maria Stuarda''. She returned to La Scala in the role of Angelina in Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'' and once again played Rosina in a new production of Rossini's ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' by Luca Ronconi at the Pesaro Festival and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
In the 2005–2006 season, DiDonato made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Cherubino in ''Le nozze di Figaro'' and played Stéphano in Gounod's ''Roméo et Juliette'' at the Met. She returned to the Royal Opera House as Rosina in ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', sang her first Sesto in Mozart's ''La clemenza di Tito'' with Grand Théâtre de Genève, and sang the role of Dejanira in Handel's ''Hercules'' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and at the Barbican Centre in London with William Christie (musician). In addition, DiDonato appeared in several concerts with the New York Philharmonic and gave a recital at Wigmore Hall in London. She closed the Santa Fe Opera's 50th anniversary season in the title role of Massenet's ''Cendrillon''. In 2006, DiDonato was given the Royal Philharmonic Society Singer Award.
In the 2006–2007 season, DiDonato debuted at the Teatro Real as the Composer in Richard Strauss' ''Ariadne auf Naxos'', returned to the Opéra National de Paris as Idamante in Mozart's ''Idomeneo'', and returned to Houston Grand Opera as Angelina in ''La Cenerentola''. She sang Rosina in ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' at the Metropolitan Opera and sang her first Octavian in Richard Strauss' ''Der Rosenkavalier'' with the San Francisco Opera. She toured the U.S. and Europe on an extensive recital tour with accompianist Julius Drake. DiDonato won the Metropolitan Opera's Beverly Sills Award in 2007.
In the 2007–2008 season, DiDonato debuted at the Liceu as Angelina in ''La Cenerentola'' and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Rosina in ''Il barbiere di Siviglia''. She sang the title role in Handel's ''Alcina'' with Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco and the title role in Handel's ''Ariodante'' at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. She sang Roméo in Bellini's ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' with Opéra Bastille and returned to Madrid's Teatro Real as Idamante in ''Idomeneo'' in July 2008. DiDonato also gave recitals at La Scala, Lincoln Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and performed a special concert of Handel arias which was recorded in Brussels.
In the 2008–2009 season, DiDonato returned to Covent Garden as Donna Elvira in Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' and as Rosina in ''Il barbiere di Siviglia''. In a performance of that opera on July 7, DiDonato slipped onstage and broke her right fibula; she finished the first act hobbling and the rest of the performance on crutches. She then performed the five remaining scheduled performances from a wheelchair. She will be performing the roles of Beatrice in Berlioz's ''Béatrice et Bénédict'' with Houston Grand Opera, Idamante in Mozart's ''Idomeneo'' with Opéra National de Paris, and Rosina in ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' in her debut with Vienna State Opera. DiDonato will appear in concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the latter of which under the baton of James Levine. She will be touring Europe and the United States with Les Talens Lyriques giving concerts of Handel arias and will give performances at Wigmore Hall and the Rossini Opera Festival.
In October 2010, DiDonated won the Klassik Echo Award as Singer of the Year.
DiDonato has sung in concert with the SWR Orchestra Kaiserslautern, The King's Consort, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony.
DiDonato played the role of Isolier in Rossini's Le Comte Ory with the Metropolitan Opera in April 2011.
Personal life
DiDonato is married to Italian conductor Leonardo Vordoni with whom she lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She was married once previously and continues to use her first husband's surname professionally.
Opera roles
:* Adina, ''Adina'' (Rossini) :* Alcina, ''Alcina'' (Handel) :* Angelina (Cenerentola), ''La Cenerentola'' (Rossini) :* Annius, ''La clemenza di Tito'' (Mozart) :* Ariodante, ''Ariodante'' (Handel) :* Ascanio, ''Benvenuto Cellini'' (Berlioz) :* Beatrice, ''Béatrice et Bénédict'' (Berlioz) :* Cendrillon, ''Cendrillon'' (Massenet) :* Cherubino, ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (Mozart) :* The Composer ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' (Richard Strauss) :* Dejanira, ''Hercules'' (Handel) :* Donna Elvira, ''Don Giovanni'' (Mozart) :* Dorabella, ''Così fan tutte'' (Mozart) :* Elena, ''La donna del lago'' (Rossini) :* Elisabetta, ''Maria Stuarda'' (Donizetti) :* Elmira, ''Floridante'' (Handel) :* Grace Kelly, ''Jackie O'' (Michael Daugherty) @ :* Idamante, ''Idomeneo'' (Mozart) :* Isabella, ''L'italiana in Algeri'' (Rossini) :* Isolier, ''Le Comte Ory'' (Rossini) :* Maslova, ''Resurrection (Tod Machover) @ :* Meg, ''Little Women (Mark Adamo) @ :* Octavian, ''Der Rosenkavalier'' (Richard Strauss) :* Romeo, ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' (Vincenzo Bellini) :* Rosina, ''The Barber of Seville'' (Rossini) :* Sesto, ''Giulio Cesare'' (Handel) :* Sextus, ''La clemenza di Tito'' (Mozart) :* Sister Helen, ''Dead Man Walking'' (Jake Heggie) :* Stephano, ''Roméo et Juliette'' (Charles Gounod) :* Zlatohrbitek the fox, ''The Cunning Little Vixen'' (Janáček) @ Indicates a world premiere
Listen
in Rossini's ''The Barber of Seville'' in Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'' in Handel's ''Floridante'' in Mozart's ''Don Giovanni''
Discography
Complete opera recordings
Concert recordings
Solo recordings
Other recordings
Film and television appearances
References
External links
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Denyce Graves (born March 7, 1964 in Washington, D.C.) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
Denyce Graves
[ allmusic.com biography]
Early life
Graves was born on March 7, 1964, to Charles Graves and Dorothy (Middleton) Graves-Kenner. She is the middle of three children and was raised by her mother on Galveston Street, S.W., in the Bellevue section of Washington. She graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in 1981. Graves studied voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory. She worked at the Wolf Trap Opera Company, which provides further training and experience for young singers who are between their academic training and full-time professional careers.
Career
She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1995 and has appeared at many opera houses. Though her repertoire is extensive, her signature parts are the title roles in ''Carmen'' and ''Samson et Dalila''. On January 20, 2005, she sang the patriotic song "American Anthem" during the 55th Presidential Inauguration, between the swearing-in ceremonies of Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush for their second terms in office.Graves sang "America the Beautiful" and "The Lord's Prayer" at the Washington National Cathedral during a memorial service honoring the victims of 9/11 on September 14, 2001, attended by President Bush, members of Congress, other politicians and representatives of foreign governments.
In 2003, Graves performed in front of a live audience at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia for a television special, ''Denyce Graves: Breaking the Rules''. Since 2005, she has hosted the radio show ''Voce di Donna'' (''Voice of a Lady'') on Vox!, the vocal classical music channel of XM Satellite Radio. Graves often was heard on ''The Tony Kornheiser Show'' radio program with her rendition of the "Mailbag Theme".
She performed the opera ''Werther'' with Andrea Bocelli for the Michigan Opera Theatre, the first opera broadcast on the Internet in its entirety in 1999. She is currently an industry panelist on American Idol Underground.
On January 2, 2007, Graves performed "The Lord's Prayer" at the state funeral for Gerald Ford at the Washington National Cathedral.
Graves sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" as part of the pre-game ceremonies inaugurating Nationals Park.
On April 12, 2009, Graves performed a tribute concert to Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, organized by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. In May 2010, Graves performed a concert with tenor Lawrence Brownlee in the United States Supreme Court Building for the Supreme Court justices.
Personal life
In the late 1980's she was involved with tenor, Fernando del Valle, later, Graves married guitarist David Perry in 1990 and divorced in the early 2000s. She then had a relationship with French composer and clarinetist Vincent Thomas. After breaking up Graves discovered she was pregnant, something she thought was impossible because she had been told that fibroids and other conditions prevented her from getting pregnant and Thomas told her he had a vasectomy. In June 2004, she gave birth to Ella (named after Ella Fitzgerald) via emergency C-section in Paris. In June 2006, she met Robert Montgomery, a Johns Hopkins doctor, on an airplane from Dulles Airport to Paris. They were married on June 29, 2009, in a family-only affair. In August the couple travelled to Kenya for a tradition Masai blessing and had a five-day wedding celebration in September that featured a kick-off party in a private airplane hangar, a rehearsal dinner at their home, a reception at the Anderson House in Dupont Circle, and a day-after picnic on the grounds of Duke Ellington High School. Montgomery is now the Chief of Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. The couple resides in Bethesda, Maryland.
References
External links
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Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934, Bradford, Pennsylvania) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring a large sound, beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages.
Bellini: ''Norma'' (Sutherland, J. Alexander, Cross; Bonynge, 1964) Decca
Bernstein: ''West Side Story'' (Te Kanawa, Troyanos, Carreras; Bernstein, 1984) Deutsche Grammophon
Bizet: ''Carmen'' (Maliponte, McCracken, Krause; Bernstein, 1972) Deutsche Grammophon
Donizetti: ''Anna Bolena'' (Souliotis, J. Alexander, Ghiaurov; Varviso, 1968/69) Decca
Donizetti: ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (Sutherland, Aragall, Wixell; Bonynge, 1977) Decca
Gluck: ''Orfeo ed Euridice'' (Lorengar, Donath; Solti, 1970) Decca
Handel: ''Semele'' (Battle, Ramey; Nelson, 1990) Deutsche Grammophon
Massenet: ''La navarraise'' (Domingo, Milnes, Zaccaria; Lewis, 1975) RCA
Meyerbeer: ''Le prophète'' (Scotto, McCracken, Hines; Lewis, c1976) Sony
Mozart: ''Don Giovanni'' (Sutherland, Lorengar, Krenn, Bacquier, Gramm; Bonynge, 1968) Decca
Ponchielli: ''La Gioconda'' (Tebaldi, Dominguez, Bergonzi, Merrill; Gardelli, 1967) Decca
Puccini: ''Suor Angelica'' (Scotto, Cotrubas; Maazel, 1976) Sony
Rossini: ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' (Barbacini, Nucci, Dara, Ramey; R.Chailly, 1982) Sony
Rossini: ''Bianca e Falliero'' (Ricciarelli, Merritt; Renzetti, 1986) [live] Fonit Cetra
Rossini: ''L'italiana in Algeri'' (Battle, Ramey; Scimone, 1980) Erato
Rossini: ''Semiramide'' (Sutherland, Rouleau; Bonynge, 1965/66) Decca
Rossini: ''Tancredi'' (Cuberli, Zaccaria; Weikert, 1982) Sony
Roussel: ''Padmâvatî'' (Gedda, van Dam; Plasson, 1982/83) EMI
Thomas: ''Mignon'' (Welting, von Stade, Vanzo, Zaccaria; de Almeida, 1977) Sony
Verdi: ''Falstaff'' (Sweet, Lopardo, Panerai, Titus; C.Davis, 1991) RCA
Verdi: ''Requiem'' (Sutherland, Horne, Pavarotti, Talvela; Solti, 1967) Decca
Verdi: ''Il trovatore'' (Sutherland, Pavarotti, Wixell, Ghiaurov; Bonynge, 1976) Decca
Vivaldi: ''Orlando furioso'' (de los Ángeles, Valentini Terrani; Scimone, 1977) Erato
Corigliano: ''The Ghosts of Versailles'' (Stratas, Fleming; Levine, Graham, 1992) [live] Deutsche Grammophon
Rossini: ''L'italiana in Algeri'' (M.Merritt, Ahlstedt; Levine, Ponnelle, 1986) [live] Deutsche Grammophon
Rossini: ''Semiramide'' (Anderson, Ramey; Conlon, Copley, 1990) [live] Kultur
Verdi: ''Falstaff'' (Freni, Bonney, Lopardo, Plishka; Levine, Zeffirelli, 1992) [live] Deutsche Grammophon
Vivaldi: ''Orlando furioso'' (Behr, Pizzi, 1989) [live] Kultur
''Marilyn Horne: The Song Continues'' by Marilyn Horne and Jane Scovell, Baskerville Publishers; ISBN 1880909715
''Marilyn Horne: My Life'' by Marilyn Horne and Jane Scovell, Atheneum Books; ISBN 068911401X
IMDb
The Marilyn Horne Foundation
Discography (Capon's Lists of Opera Recordings)
Biography
Horne was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, but moved with her parents to Long Beach, California, when she was 11. At the age of 13, she became part of the newly formed Los Angeles Concert Youth Chorus. She attended the University of Southern California where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity. She is an alumna of Long Beach Polytechnic High School and returned in 1989 in a performance to benefit its music program. As a high school student, Marilyn was part of the St. Luke's Choir of Long Beach under the direction of William Ripley Dorr. This prestigious choir often worked for the movie studios and recorded on Capitol Records. Marilyn and her sister Gloria were part of St. Luke's Quartet along with tenor, Bob James and Baritone, Philip D. Haynes.She studied voice under William Vennard at the University of Southern California School of Music and participated in Lotte Lehmann's vocal master classes.
Career
Horne's first major professional engagement was in 1954, when she dubbed the singing voice of Dorothy Dandridge in the film ''Carmen Jones''. Until that point, she had worked as a background singer for several TV sitcoms, as well as recorded covers of popular songs of the early 1950s, which were sold in dimestores around the country for $1.98. She made an appearance on ''The Odd Couple'' as a character named "Jackie," her own nickname, a meek and nervous would-be singer who develops into a full-blown diva and essays the role of Carmen with brilliant results; she also sang on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''. She made her Los Angeles debut the same year when she performed the role of Hata in ''The Bartered Bride'' with the Los Angeles Guild Opera.Her first major breakthrough came when her singing ability was recognized by Igor Stravinsky; her operatic career began when he invited her to perform in the 1956 Venice festival. She remained in Europe for three seasons singing for the Gelsenkirchen Opera.
She was highly acclaimed for her performance as Marie in Alban Berg's ''Wozzeck'' at the inauguration of Gelsenkirchen's new opera house on May 22, 1960. In 1964, she returned to the United States to appear in ''Wozzeck'' at the San Francisco Opera.
For many years, Horne was associated with the Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland in their performances of the bel canto repertoire. They first performed together in a concert version of Vincenzo Bellini's ''Beatrice di Tenda'' at The Town Hall in Manhattan in February 1961. This performance was so successful, it was repeated twice at Carnegie Hall. In 1965, they were paired again in a performance of Rossini's ''Semiramide'' with the Opera Company of Boston, and sang Lakmé's Flower Duet together in 1979—Sutherland changed her costume during the interval, something that had not previously been done.
Horne made her debut at the Royal Opera House in October 1964 as Marie in ''Wozzeck''. Her La Scala debut was as Jocasta in Stravinsky's opéra-oratorio ''Œdipus rex'' on March 13, 1969. Another of Horne's breakthroughs occurred that same year during a performance of Rossini's Le siège de Corinthe at La Scala, when Horne received a remarkable mid-act seven-minute ovation. Horne made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1970 as Adalgisa in Bellini's ''Norma'' with Sutherland in the title role. She thereafter appeared regularly at the Met, opening the 1972/1973 season as Carmen. A great success there was in Meyerbeer's ''Le prophète'', in John Dexter's production. In 1984, she sang the title role of Handel's opera seria ''Rinaldo'' (directed by Frank Corsaro), the first Handel opera ever performed at the Met.
Although best known for her bel canto and opera seria roles, Horne also sang much American music, both contemporary music by composers such as William Bolcom, and traditional popular songs. She can be heard on the soundtrack of ''Flower Drum Song'' singing "Love, Look Away" and sings the role of Lady Thiang on the Philips recording of ''The King and I'' starring Julie Andrews and Ben Kingsley. She had previously sung in the women's chorus for the 1956 film version of ''The King and I''.
Horne was married from 1960 to 1979 (separated 1974) to the conductor Henry Lewis, with whom she maintained a home in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles for many years, and with whom she had a daughter, Angela.
In 1983, she published (with co-writer Jane Scovell) a candid autobiography, ''My Life,'' and a continuation volume, ''Marilyn Horne, The Song Continues'', appeared in 2004.
Horne received many honors during her career. A ''New York Times'' article by Robert Jacobson, editor of ''Opera News'', in celebration of the Met's 100th anniversary in 1983, listed the hundred greatest singers who had ever performed at the house and included Horne, the only one still actively singing at the time. She was awarded Yale University's Sanford Medal. In 1992 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
In January 1993, Horne sang "Make A Rainbow", by American singer and songwriter Portia Nelson, and the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" at the inauguration of US President Bill Clinton.
Horne retired from the concert stage in 1999 with a recital at the Chicago Symphony Center. She still occasionally performs at pop concerts (most recently with Broadway star Barbara Cook), her voice undimmed by age. Horne has also established the Marilyn Horne Foundation to help preserve the art of vocal recitals. She teaches a series of annual Master Classes at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music; the University of Maryland, College Park; the Manhattan School of Music; and the University of Oklahoma.In December 2005, shortly before Horne's 72nd birthday, she was diagnosed with localized pancreatic cancer. In January 2007, she appeared at a public function for her Foundation. Interviewed by Norman Lebrecht on BBC Radio 3 on 26 July 2010 she spoke briefly about her cancer and cheerfully said, "I'm still here!"
Ms. Horne has directed the acclaimed Voice Program at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, since 1997.
Abridged discography
Abridged videography
Works
Sources
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Category:1934 births Category:American female singers Category:American opera singers Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Kennedy Center honorees Category:Living people Category:Operatic mezzo-sopranos Category:Pancreatic cancer survivors Category:People from Echo Park, Los Angeles Category:People from Bradford, Pennsylvania Category:United States National Medal of Arts recipients Category:University of Southern California alumni Category:African American opera singers Category:African American female singers Category:American mezzo-sopranos
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