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Wendy White, mezzo-soprano... |
b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up Wendy White has firmly established herself as one of Americas favorite mezzo-sopranos. Having won first place in the prestigious Metropolitan Opera National Awards, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Franco Zefferellis new production of La Traviata under the direction of Carlos Kleiber. Since then, she has appeared in over forty productions at the Met including the title role of Carmen, Fenena in Nabucco, Dame Quickly in Falstaff, Brangene in Tristan und Isolde, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Baba the Turk in Rakes Progress, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Bersi and Madelon in Andrea Chenier, Isabella in LItaliana in Algieri, as well as Cieca in La Gioconda. She has been seen in seven productions on PBS for the Live from the Met series in Nabucco, Chenier, Figaro, Wozzeck, Il Trittico, Cenerentola, and Madama Butterfly, where she appeared with her own daughter as the child, Troublea first for the Met. Miss Whites appearances have included an impressive array of opera houses across the United States including Chicago Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, the Washington Opera, Cincinnati Opera, as well as the New York City Opera. Internationally she has been seen at the Vienna State Opera, Hamburg Opera, Nice Opera, and the Opera de Toulouse. Miss Whites recordings have included Nabucco, Luisa Miller, La Traviata, Rakes Progress, Oedipus Rex, Songfest, and her recording of A Quiet Place with Leonard Bernstein, which received a Grammy nomination. She was prominently featured singing French art songs on the soundtrack for the American Playhouse Film, the Music of Chance. In addition to her operatic performances, Miss White has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras wordwide, including the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Washington National Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Symphony, and the Netherlands Radio Orchestra, under the direction of conductors Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Leonard Slatkin, Seiji Ozawa, Christoph von Dohnanyi, John Williams, Lorin Maazel, and Zubin Mehta. |
r e p e r t o i r e...........back to roster....up Orchestra Repertoire: Bach Cantata No. 23 Bach Christmas Oratorio Bach Mass in B minor Bernstein Songfest Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Bruckner Te Deum Canteloube Chants DAuvergne de Falla El Amor Brujo Handel Judas Maccabaeus Handel Messiah Haydn Seven Last Words Honegger King David Janacek Glagolitic Mass Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer Mahler Symphony No. 2 Mahler Symphony No. 4 Mahler Symphony No. 8 Alto I & II Mendelssohn Elijah Mendelssohn St. Paul Monteverdi Mass for Four Voices Mozart Requim Mozart Mass in C Major Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio Schubert Staendchen (with male chorus) Stainer Crucifixion Stravinsky Oedipus Rex Requiem Canticles Verdi Requiem click here to read Wendy White's opera-repertoire (MS Word) b i o....r e p e r t o i r e back to roster...up . . . . |