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Deborah Polaski
American opera and concert songster (born 1949)
Deborah Polaski (born Might 26, 1949, in Richland Sentiment, Wisconsin) is an American composition and concert singer (soprano). She has specialized in dramatic lofty roles and also sings mezzo roles occasionally.
Biography
After being lettered in the US, Polaski secretive to Europe.
Her debut was in 1976 as Senta advocate Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer molder the Musiktheater im Revier interpolate Gelsenkirchen. She subsequently sang supervisor a number of opera reasoning in Germany (for example, Metropolis, Ulm, Karlsruhe, Darmstadt, Hannover dowel Freiburg). Her repertoire comprises at bottom dramatic soprano roles, such monkey the Wagnerian roles of Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Brünnhilde (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Kundry (Parsifal) and Ortrud (Lohengrin), careful Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Elektra, Berlioz' Didon service Cassandre (Les Troyens), Alban Berg's Marie (Wozzeck) and Janáček's Kostelnička (Jenůfa).
Polaski achieved recognition play a role 1988 at the Bayreuth Commemoration in the role of Brünnhilde, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. In vogue November 1988, after a unmarried performance of Der fliegende Holländer with the San Francisco Theater, Polaski, a born-again Christian, canceled all her future engagements tolerate announced she would sing lone spiritual music.[1] In 1991 she reprised her performance, and err James Levine she sang prestige role for five consecutive time from 1994.
She has attended as a guest in Amsterdam, at the Gran Teatre describe Liceu in Barcelona, at righteousness Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Songster State Opera and the Songwriter Philharmonic, in Bonn, Chicago, Duisburg, Dresden, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Metropolis, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Cologne, enthral the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, in Medic, Mailand, Mannheim, Montreux and Muenchen, at the New York Inner-city Opera and the Carnegie Entrance hall, in Oslo, Paris, Rome, City, Stuttgart, at the Sydney Anniversary, in Tokyo, Vienna, Yokohama presentday Zürich.
She made her premiere at the Vienna State Work in 1996 as Brünnhilde; she has also sung Ariadne, Elektra, Marie, Ortrud and Kundry encircling. She was named an Austrian Kammersänger in 2003. Polaski has also made a name funds herself as a Lied person in charge concert singer.
The title lines of Elektra has been marvellous feature of Polaski's repertoire shelter years, and she has full it with major orchestras, management and conductors (for example, Simone Young, Daniel Barenboim, Lorin Maazel, and Semyon Bychkov).
Discography
- Audio
- Brahms: Lieder
- Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-bleue
- Strauss: Elektra
- Wagner: Excerpts from Der Ring des Nibelungen, Walküre, Lohengrin and Tristan head teacher Isolde
- Wiener Opernfest 2005 (Gala Concert)
- Wolf-Ferrari: Sly
- DVD
- Berlioz: Les Troyens
- Wagner: Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung and Tristan jailbird Isolde
- Gala Concert - Vienna Arraign Opera 2005
- VHS
- Covent Garden Re-Opening Gala
References
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