Coordinates | 21°29′52″N158°3′48″N |
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name | Marni Nixon |
birth date | February 22, 1930 |
birth place | Altadena, California, United States |
spouse | Ernest Gold (m. 1950–1969)Lajos Frederick Fenster(m. 1971–1975)Albert Block (m. 1983-present) |
children | Andrew Gold (1951-2011)Martha Gold (b. 1954)Melani Gold (b. 1962) }} |
She went on to study singing and opera with Carl Ebert, Jan Popper, Boris Goldovsky and Sarah Caldwell. She embarked on a varied career, involving film and musical comedy as well as opera and concerts. She appeared on American television, dubbed the singing voices of film actresses in The King and I, West Side Story and My Fair Lady, and acted in several commercial stage ventures. She has performed works by Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, Paul Hindemith and Alexander Goehr, many of which she has also recorded.
Nixon's opera repertory includes Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, both Blonde and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Violetta in La traviata, the title role in La Périchole and Philine in Mignon. Her opera credits include performances at Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera and the Tanglewood Festival among others. In addition to giving recitals, she appeared with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra among others. She taught at the California Institute of Arts from 1969–1971 and joined the faculty of the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, in 1980 where she taught for many years.
Nixon's autobiography, I Could Have Sung All Night, was published by Billboard Books in 2006.
Except for Dementia, in which she received on-screen credit as "Featured Voice", the credits for her many dubbing roles did not appear on the titles of any of the films, and Nixon did not begin to be fully credited until the movies' subsequent release on VHS decades later.
Because she performed the voices for actresses in musicals, she has been called "The Ghostess with the Mostess", and "The Voice of Hollywood".
In the 1998 Disney film Mulan, Nixon sang the role of Grandmother Fa.
In March 2007 she was involved in a concert version of My Fair Lady, in which she performed the non-singing role of Mrs. Higgins, Professor Higgins's mother.
On June 18, 2007, Nixon joined a group of volunteers who were inspired by the documentary film "Tocar y Luchar." They are trying to bring more music education to all children.
Nixon performed on the U.S. National Tour of Cameron Mackintosh's U.K. revival of My Fair Lady through July 2008, replacing Sally Ann Howes in the role of Mrs. Higgins.
Under her own name, she has also recorded songs by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Arnold Schönberg, Charles Ives, and Anton Webern.
The first of her three husbands, Ernest Gold, composed the theme song to the movie Exodus. They had three children together, one of whom was the singer and songwriter Andrew Gold, who died on June 3, 2011.
On October 27, 2008, Marni Nixon was presented with the Singer Symposium's Distinguished Artist Award in New York City.
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