Martina Arroyo

Martina Arroyo ( born February 2, 1936 in New York) is an American opera singer (soprano ). Arroyo considered alongside Leontyne Price and Grace Bumbry as the most important African-American opera singer of the 1960s and 1970s.

In addition to her vocal training Arroyo studied languages ​​and literature and worked as a teacher. In 1959 she won the singing competition of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Although the first prize was in an engagement at this house, but they got there first only smaller batches. So she went to Europe in 1963, where they had great success in the Zurich Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Vienna State Opera.

Her breakthrough experienced Arroyo in 1965, when she fell ill Birgit Nilsson for Aida stepped in at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the short term in the opera by Giuseppe Verdi. She went to 1987 on there and became one of the leading sopranos of the house. Particularly as an interpreter of Verdi was highly appreciated.

In October 1983, she sang under the direction of Nicola Rescigno her first Turandot at the Canadian Opera Company (COC ). Your partner were Ermanno Mauro as Calaf, Phil Stark as Emperor and Maria Spacagna as Liu. The Prince of Persia this idea was the then unknown Ben Heppner. The performance was broadcast on the radio.

Guest performances, the singer also at the Covent Garden Opera in London, at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Grand Opéra Paris, the Staatsoper in Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart, the National Opera of Warsaw, Belgrade, Prague, the opera houses in Chicago and San Francisco. She has collaborated with the most important conductors of our time, among other things, with which they also made recordings with Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado and Colin Davis. Her colleagues on the stage and in the recording studio were Placido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, Peter Schreier, Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa and Mirella Freni. Her recitals she was accompanied among others by the American pianist Leonard Hokanson.

In 1989, she retired from the stage and from then on worked as a singing teacher, including at the Indiana University School of Music. In 2003, she called the Martina Arroyo Foundation launched a foundation to support young talented singers.

Recordings

  • Mascagni " Cavalleria Rusticana "; RCA
  • Meyerbeer " Les Huguenots "; Decca
  • Mozart 's "Don Giovanni "; German Grammophon
  • Verdi " I Vespri Siciliani "; RCA;
  • Verdi "Un Ballo in Maschera "; EMI
  • Verdi " La Forza del Destino "; EMI
  • Verdi " La Forza del Destino - original version "; Opera Rara
  • Verdi 's "Requiem"; Sony
  • Schwetzingen recital 1968 Piano: Leonard Hokanson; Haenssler Classics / Naxos

Sources and Links

  • Kutsch / belt " Large Sängerlexikon " Saur
  • Kesting " The great singer " Claasen Verlag
  • Website of the artist
  • Website of Martina Arroyo Foundation

Credentials

  • Opera singer
  • Soprano
  • Americans
  • Born in 1936
  • Woman
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