Deborah Voigt

Deborah Joy Voigt (* August 4, 1960 ) is an American opera singer (soprano ).

Life

Voigt was born into a religious family that belonged to the Southern Baptist Convention, and grew up in Wheeling, Illinois; when she was 14, the family moved to Orange County, California. Voigt sang early in gospel choirs and won various singing competitions, seriously she was interested only for singing when she was deliberately encouraged by her singing teacher, music professor Jane Paul and sent to high-level singing competitions.

In 1988, she made ​​her singing debut at Carnegie Hall. She sang in all the major opera houses and is considered one of the best dramatic sopranos of her time . At the Metropolitan Opera in New York, she sang numerous roles, including Brünnhilde in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung. It also frequently hosts the cinema live broadcasts from the Met

In 2004 she underwent a stomach operation in which her ​​stomach was reduced after it has been taken from The Royal Opera House, where she was supposed to sing the " Ariadne auf Naxos " because of their corpulence again from the cast. In 2013 she was honored at the Grammy Awards.

Deborah Voigt lives in Florida.