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Audrey Luna (born 21 October 1978, [1] in Salem, Oregon, [2]) is an American soprano who won a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Opera Recording of Thomas Adès's The Tempest and is the record holder for singing the highest written note at the Metropolitan Opera.
Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American soprano.She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contemporary.
Leona Pearl Mitchell (born October 13, 1949, Enid, Oklahoma) is an American operatic soprano who sang for 18 seasons as a leading spinto soprano at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In her home state of Oklahoma, she received many honors.
She is especially known for singing Verdi; conductor Riccardo Muti said in 2018: "She is without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet. Without. Doubt." [2] She is also well known for singing Bizet's Carmen. [3] Opera News magazine has stated that "Rachvelishvili is a unique dramatic presence. Her dark, smoldering eyes and ...
In New York, Leonard has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center [4] and with the Juilliard Opera Center. [5] Her first appearance with the New York Philharmonic was in a concert version of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and she later sang the part of the Squirrel in L'enfant et les sortilèges in concert with the orchestra and Lorin Maazel. [6]
Nina Maria Stemme (born Nina Maria Thöldte on 11 May 1963) is a Swedish dramatic soprano opera singer. Stemme "is regarded by today's opera fans as our era's greatest Wagnerian soprano". [ 1 ] In 2010, Michael Kimmelman wrote of one of Stemme's performances in Richard Wagner 's opera Die Walküre , "As for Brünnhilde, Nina Stemme sang gloriously.
She was the first African American to sing a prima donna role in Italy's greatest opera house. (The African-American soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs had sung there two years earlier, in the seconda role of Elvira in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri.) In Salzburg that summer, Price sang her first Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, again with Karajan. [13]
Brenda Rae (born February 8, 1982) is an American operatic soprano who has performed leading roles in opera houses internationally. She was a resident artist at the Frankfurt Opera from 2008 [1] through 2017. [2]