Latonia Moore
Latonia Moore ( born 1979 in Houston ) is an American soprano.
Life
Latonia Moore grew up with black music. At the age of eight, she sang not only in the family gospel, but also in the church choir of the Baptist New Sunrise Baptist Church, where her grandfather Cranford Moore worked as a pastor.
She studied first Gospel, then jazz singing and eventually opera singing. This change required of her a big technical change, as the chest voice is used more in higher pitches in both gospel and jazz, while the high, pure tones of opera singing mainly require head voice. Moore began her studies at the University of North Texas, and set it later with Bill Schuman of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia on.
Moore made his debut in 1998 at the Palm Beach Opera in West Palm Beach, and has been engaged as a student in the same year at the Houston Ebony Opera. Her repertoire includes the Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, the Lucrezia in Lucrezia Borgia, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust and Tatiana in Eugene Onegin. In the role of Mimì in La Bohème, she appeared at the Dresden Semperoper, as Micaela in Carmen at the Dallas Opera and the New York City Opera. As Liù in Turandot she made her debut at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The title role in Aida, she sang so far at the Hamburg State Opera and in Covent Garden. Latonia Moore also occurs in concert, she is among other things to listen to the German Grammophon recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, a recording from the Vienna Musikverein in 2002, conductor was the American multi-millionaire and Mahler enthusiast Gilbert Kaplan.