Lauren Flanigan

Lauren Flanigan ( born May 18, 1959 in San Francisco) is an American opera singer (soprano ).

Flanigan debuted in 1991 at the Seattle Opera as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Later she sang in this house, the governess in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw and Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. In the season 1992-93 she performed alongside Luciano Pavarotti in Verdi's I Lombardi at the Metropolitan Opera as the representative of the diseased Aprile Millo. In 1996 she made ​​her debut at La Scala as Abigail a Verdi's Nabucco.

The repertoire Flanigan include numerous roles from the works of contemporary composers, the Marvin David Levy's Christine in Mourning Becomes Electra ( Lyric Opera of Chicago), the bride in Judith Wiers The Vanishing Bridegroom ( Opera Theatre of St. Louis) and the title role in the première of Hugo Weisgalls Esther.

Overall, she appeared in about a hundred different operas, including several world premieres. Philip Glass composed for her vocal part of his 6th Symphony on a text by Allen Ginsberg, and their recording of Richard Strauss' Liebe der Danae was nominated for a Grammy. She received including the Betty Allen Prize of the New York City Opera, a prize from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ) for their dedication to the performance of music by contemporary composer, and the Center for Contemporary Opera, she was as an artist of the Year Award.

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  • Woman
  • Born in 1959
  • Opera singer
  • Soprano
  • Americans
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