Jennifer Larmore
Jennifer Larmore ( born June 21, 1958 in Atlanta ) is an American mezzo-soprano.
Biography
Jennifer Larmore grew up in the southern metropolis of Atlanta. Her first vocal training she completed in Princeton (New Jersey). Her debut was in 1986 as Sesto ( " La Clemenza di Tito", WA Mozart) in Nice.
A particularly important role to take the operas of Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and George Frideric Handel in their chosen repertoire. Your Germany debut in 1990, she played a fantastic new production of The Barber Willi Decker Siviglia in Bonn. Her debut at the Salzburg Festival she gave in 1993 as Dorabella ' in " Cosi fan tutte ". Rosina ' from "Il Barbiere di Siviglia " became one of their most important roles, in which she was heard with great success in Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Bonn, Berlin, Milan, London and San Francisco. These same role she chose for her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1995, to which they in the following season with " Hansel and Gretel" and then with " La Cenerentola ", " Giulio Cesare ", " Les Contes d' Hoffmann ", " L' Italiana in Algeri "and" Die Fledermaus " returned. At La Scala, she was first as Isolation ' in Le comte Ory and later heard in Ravel's " L' Enfant et les Sortilèges " and " Il Barbiere di Siviglia ". Two of her favorite trouser roles are, Romeo ' from " I Capuleti et I Montecchi " with which she performed in Lisbon, Geneva, New York and Paris, and the title role of " Giulio Cesare ," which they, in New York, Amsterdam, Lisbon Paris, Berlin, Montreux, Madrid and Brussels sang. In 1998 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in the role of ' Isabelle ' from ' L' Italiana in Algeri ", with which they occurred already in Turin, Berlin, Buenos Aires and New York. Furthermore, she took the title role of Bizet's " Carmen " in their repertoire, with which they could be heard in Los Angeles and Washington, and they einsang for a receptacle for Teldec 1995.
The concert repertoire mezzo-soprano ranges from Handel's " Messiah " and Vivaldi's " Magnificat " on Rossini's " Stabat Mater" to Mahler's " Rückert -Lieder ", they not only at the Vienna Musikverein with Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic, but also at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, brought to the show with Donald Runnicles. Schoenberg's " Gurrelieder " she sang in concerts with Staatskapelle Dresden / Giuseppe Sinopoli and with the Pittsburgh Symphony / Mariss Jansons. With Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra took for Teldec 1997 De Falla's " El amor brujo " on. Under the direction of Kurt Masur Larmore gave her New York debut with " The Song of the Earth ". She also sang a concert version of " Camelot " at the Hollywood Bowl, with the actor Patrick Stewart in the role of Arthur ' and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra under John Mauceri.
The year 2004 began for Jennifer Larmore in Covent Garden, Giulietta ' in " Les Contes d' Hoffmann " and four recordings for the label Opera Rara: Two one-act opera by Donizetti, " Francesca di Foix " and " Elvida ", released in 2005, the eighth part of the " Il Lounge ' series, which will be released in November 2005 and a solo recording of works by Mercadante, Costa, Arditi and Rossini, published under the title" Bravura Diva " in May 2005. With four performances at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Italy, Larmore was listening to "Il Barbiere di Siviglia " again, after which they traveled in late March for a recital with Antoine Palloc to Gstaad in Switzerland. In April Larmore sang the mezzo part of Mahler's Second Symphony (St. Louis Symphony ). In Berlioz's " La Damnation de Faust " as she was then, Marguerite ' to hear under the direction of Seiji Ozawa at the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris. In the London BBC Proms, where she is a welcome guest, sang the Larmore, Hansel ' in Humperdinck's " Hansel and Gretel". At the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires as they, Elisabetta ' in Rossini was " Elisabetta, Regina d' Inghiliterra " (Director: Eve Queler ) to see and slipped for two performances with the Ensemble Matheus and Jean -Christophe Spinosi in Toulouse and Brussels again in the role of ' Alcina ' from Vivaldi's " Orlando Furioso ".
In May 2005, Jennifer Larmore returned to her alma mater, the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, back, there to receive an honorary doctorate to give a recital and to keep the welcome speech at the closing ceremony of the graduate. At the Metropolitan Opera in December 2005 as she was, Elizabeth Griffiths ' experience in the world premiere of Tobias Picker's "An American Tragedy".
Inter alia, include highlights of recent seasons Berlioz's " La Damnation de Faust " with Christoph von Dohnanyi in Cleveland, her debut as Charlotte ' in Jules Massenet's " Werther " with Bertrand de Billy (Vienna ) and her appearance in Donizetti's " La Favorita " at Carnegie Hall. For 2002, particularly her debut at the BBC Proms in London with " Cinco Canciones Negras " by Xavier Montsalvatge and her performance in the title role of " Giulio Cesare " in a Luca Ronconi production at the Teatro Real in Madrid are emphasized. The following year, the singer at the New York Metropolitan for her first appearance as, Orlovsky ' was in "Die Fledermaus" a guest at which they occurred later under the direction of Seiji Ozawa in Tokyo. She also sang the title role of Gluck's " Orfeo " (with Antoni Ros Marba ) and Rossini and Vivaldi arias in a concert with Jean -Christophe Spinosi and the Ensemble Matheus at the Théâtre du Châtelet, gave a recital with Antoine Palloc in Hong Kong, was as' Alcina ' in Paris ( Spinosi ), in " Semiramide " at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the role of Giovanna Seymour ' to hear in " Anna Bolena " with Eve Queler and the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall. Also in 2003, Jennifer Larmore was awarded in a ceremony at the Opéra Bastille by the French government of " Chevalier des arts et des lettres ".
Discography
From 1994, the year in which the singer was awarded the prestigious Richard Tucker Prize, Jennifer Larmore took Teldec Classics International an exclusive recording contract. From its successful collaboration with Teldec three Rossini operas went - "Il Barbiere di Siviglia ," " La Cenerentola " and " L' Italiana in Algeri " - as well as Humperdinck's " Hansel and Gretel", Bizet's " Carmen ", Verdi's " Rigoletto " Gluck's " Orfeo ed Euridice" and Bellini's " I Capuleti e I Montecchi " out. Maurice Duruflé's Requiem, and attended, Igor Stravinsky's " Pulcinella " and Arnold Schoenberg's " Gurrelieder " on. Among her recital recordings are a CD with arias by Handel and Mozart ( "Where Shall I Fly " ), a recording with trouser roles arias ( "Call Me Mister "), a CD entitled "Born in Atlanta " in celebration of their participation at the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Olympic Games, a compilation of songs by American composers of the 19th and 20th century ("My Native Land " ), scenes and arias from lesser known operas by Rossini ( " Amore by Rossini " ), and " Belleza Vocale ", an album of duets with popular ( with soprano Hei - Kyung Hong ).
Their performance of De Falla's " El sombrero de tres picos " ( The Three-cornered Hat ) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim was released in 2002 on CD with works by the composer. For Harmonia Mundi Jennifer Larmore worked with Rene Jacobs and Concerto Köln for recordings of Claudio Monteverdi's " L' incoronazione di Poppea " and " L' Orfeo ", Mozart's C Minor Mass and Handel's " Giulio Cesare " together. The latter won the Gramophone Award for "Best Baroque Opera ". For Opera Rara sang Larmore, Falliero ' in Rossini's " Bianca e Falliero ", Estrella ' in Pacini's " Carlo di Bourgogne " and most recently the title role in Rossini's " Elisabetta, Regina d' Inghiliterra ". Opera Rara also released CDs with the titles " Duets to Die for ", " Tyrants and Lovers" and "La Rimembranza ". For Warner Classics, the singer took French opera arias under the title " L' Etoile " and Naïve Records appeared Antonio Vivaldi's " Orlando Furioso " with Jennifer Larmore - the first complete recording of this opera. In May 2005, this recording was awarded the Prize of the German Record Critics.
- Mezzo-soprano
- American musician
- Carrier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( Knight )
- Americans
- Born in 1958
- Woman