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Shirley Verrett (May 31, 1931 – November 5, 2010) [1] was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who successfully transitioned into soprano roles making her a Soprano sfogato. Verrett enjoyed great fame from the late 1960s through the 1990s; she was particularly well known for singing the works of Giuseppe Verdi and Gaetano Donizetti .
Shirley Verrett (* 31. Mai 1931 in New Orleans; † 5. November 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) war eine US-amerikanische Opernsängerin in den Stimmlagen Mezzosopran und Dramatischer Sopran
Born in New Orleans on 31 May 1931, she did her first public singing as a child in church. Fed up with segregation, her father moved the family to southern California, where his daughter\’s vocal potential was revealed in competitions.
Shirley Verrett, the vocally lustrous and dramatically compelling American opera singer who began as a mezzo-soprano and went on to sing soprano roles to international acclaim, died...
31. Mai 2018 · Verrett, born on May 31, 1931, was raised in Los Angeles. While she showed early musical abilities. Her aspirations as a singer were looked down upon by her family, but she would find her way to Juilliard. She would make her operatic debut in 1957 in “The Rape of Lucretia” and then a year later she was singing at the New York City Opera.
Verrett (’61, voice ), who sang both mezzo-soprano and soprano roles, was born in New Orleans on May 31, 1931, and she grew up in southern California, where her family moved in part because the racism there was less overt than in the South.
23. Mai 2018 · Shirley Verrett was born to Leon and Elvira Verrett in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1931. Her first experience singing before an audience came while performing sacred music at the Seventh-Day Adventist church where her father conducted the choir.
