Maria Ewing

Maria Louise Ewing ( born March 27, 1950 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American opera singer with the voice soprano and mezzo- soprano.

Career

Ewing was the youngest of four daughters. She studied in Cleveland, Ohio and New York City.

Ewing made ​​his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976 in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro as Cherubino. Her first role in Europe was the Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala. Her repertoire also includes Carmen, Dorabella in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Salome, Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Katarina Ismailova in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

Ewing is famous for her extraordinary talent representation. She also was not afraid to perform in Richard Strauss' Salome the stage directions of Oscar Wilde episode, and was completely naked after the dance of the seven veils. However, they also sang such diverse roles as Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Georges Bizet's Carmen or Rosina in a Glyndebourne production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1982 ) and Francis Poulenc's La Voix humaine ( 2011).

In addition, they also interpreted jazz.

From 1982 to 1990 she was married to the director Sir Peter Hall, with whom she has a daughter, the actress Rebecca Hall.

Through her ​​portrayal of Cherubino in Figaro film by Jean -Pierre Ponnelle they gained great notoriety in Europe.