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Shirley Verrett at the Met. One of her generation’s most captivating talents, Shirley Verrett first arrived on the Met stage in 1961, when she was a winner in the National Council Auditions. She made her official debut seven years later in the title role of Bizet’s Carmen, before headlining nearly 130 performances over the course of the ...
7. Nov. 2010 · Shirley Verrett, an acclaimed American mezzo-soprano and soprano praised for her blazing intensity during a career that spanned four decades, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was 79. She was 79.
Shirley Verrett ( Nova Orleães, Estados Unidos, 31 de maio de 1931 — Ann Arbor, 5 de novembro de 2010 [ 1]) foi uma soprano e mezzo-soprano estadunidense da segunda metade do século XX. Verrett foi uma das mais famosas mezzos do século XX , conhecida pela transição de seus papéis do repertório de mezzo para o soprano.
26 December 1833. ( 1833-12-26) La Scala, Milan. Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia was first performed on 26 December 1833 at La Scala ...
Caldwell was born in Maryville, Missouri, and grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. [1] She was a child prodigy and gave public performances on the violin by the time she was ten years old. She graduated from Fayetteville High School at the age of 14. Caldwell graduated from Hendrix College in 1944 and attended the University of Arkansas as well ...
Plácido Domingo performed as Samson in the 1981 San Francisco Opera production co-starring Shirley Verrett, under Julius Rudel and at the Metropolitan Opera's 1998 production with Olga Borodina. More recent productions of the opera by the Metropolitan have been in 2006, with Marina Domashenko and Olga Borodina alternating as Delilah, [8] and in 2018 with Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna . [9]
19. Jan. 2013 · Shirley Verrett was a distinguished mezzo-soprano and soprano opera singer. Born in New Orleans on May 31, 1931, one of five children to strict Seventh Day Adventists, her father was a successful building contractor. She came from a musical family, her mother often sang in the house and her father occasionally worked as a choir director.
