Karan Armstrong
Karan Armstrong ( born December 14, 1941 in Havre, Montana) is an American soprano.
Life
Initially trained as a pianist, joined Karan Armstrong 1963, the Concordia College ( Moorhead ) in the USA with a Bachelor of Music. Subsequently, she studied with the legendary opera singer Lotte Lehmann, who had next to Armstrong just one more master student, Grace Bumbry assumed.
Your professional operatic debut was in 1965 in San Francisco as Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème. After Armstrong had won a singing contest at the Metropolitan Opera, she made her debut in 1967 in a supporting role in Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten at the New York house. In addition to other roles at the "Met" it was from 1969 to 1977 very often at the New York City Opera involved (including as Violetta in Verdi's La traviata ), which is why they took up residence in New York City at this time.
In Europe, in 1974 Armstrong made his debut as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg. The following year, she made Europe attracted attention with her first Salome ( Strauss) at the same house. This success at once joined numerous engagements throughout Europe, as Tosca in Venice, and a resounding success Elsa ( Lohengrin / Wagner) at the Bayreuth Festival in 1979 in the direction of her later to become husband Götz Friedrich. This Bayreuth production was later recorded both on audio and filmed.
In the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, they then sang in Berlin very often at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where her husband was general manager, and at the Komische Oper; at the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opera, the Royal Opera House, where her Lulu was particularly successful from (mountain ), then in Los Angeles and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
In the late years of her stage career Armstrong was sometimes referred to as the " prima donna of the Modern " titled, because it has helped shape numerous operatic premieres. So she brought out Gottfried von Einem Jesus' Wedding (as Tödin ), Giuseppe Sinopoli Lou Salomé, Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto, York Höller Maître et Marguerite and Siegfried Matthus's Desdemona and her sisters.
Armstrong's focus was on the role of design in the works Fidelio, Tannhäuser (as Venus), Lohengrin, Die Walküre ( as Sieglinde ), Parsifal, Les contes d' Hoffmann ( Giulietta ), Pelléas et Mélisande, Katya Kabanov, The Makropulos Case, Salome, Der Rosenkavalier, Anticipation, Lulu, Wozzeck, Die tote Stadt, La voix humaine, Mathis der Maler (as Ursula ), Susannah, and Dialogues des Carmelites (as mother Marie of the Incarnation ).
1985 Karan Armstrong was appointed to the Baden- Württemberg Chamber singer in Stuttgart, 1994, Kammersängerin the State of Berlin. She was married until his death by Götz Friedrich. The marriage went forth a son.
Discography
- Wagner: Lohengrin (Peter Hofmann; Woldemar Nelsson, 1982), live, CBS
- Menotti: Songs ( Francesch, 1983), Etcetera
- Berio: Un re in ascolto ( Theo Adam, Lorin Maazel, 1984), live, col legno
- Henze: The Bassariden ( Kenneth Riegel; Albrecht, 1986), Koch Schwann
- Landowski: Montsegur (G. Quilico; Plasson, 1987), live, Cybelia
- Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony ( Kusnjer; Gregor, 1987-1988), Supraphon
Videography
- Verdi: Falstaff ( Bacquier, Stilwell, Georg Solti, Götz Friedrich, 1979)
- Wagner: Lohengrin ( Hofmann; Nelsson, Friedrich, 1982) live
- " Richard -Wagner- evening " ( Wesendoncklieder and Isolde's Love ) ( Adam; Masur, 1988) ( live)