Phyllis Curtin
Phyllis Curtin ( née Phyllis Smith, born December 3, 1921 in Clarksburg / West Virginia) is an American soprano.
Life and work
Curtin had from the seventh violin lessons and sang in a glee club of their school. After studying political science at Wellesley College, she began her vocal training with Boris and Olga Goldovsky Avierino at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 1946 she made her debut as Nina in the opera Pique Dame by Tchaikovsky at the New England Opera Company.
In 1950 she came to New York City Opera, where she in the premiere of Gottfried von Einem's opera The process sang 1953, the role of Miss Burstner. Carlisle Floyd composed for her the title role in the opera, Susannah (1956 ), and also at the premiere of Floyd's opera The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962) and Wuthering Heights (1958 at the Opera House of Santa Fe) she appeared with.
After appearances at the Teatro Colón in 1959 she appeared in 1960-61 at the Vienna State Opera and in 1962 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. At the Metropolitan Opera in New York, she made her debut in 1961 as Fiordiligi in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte; in the seasons 1966-1970 and 1972-73 she appeared here again among others as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni by Mozart, as Eva in Die Meistersinger by Wagner, as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss and as Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten.
In 1966 she took part in the premiere of Darius Milhaud's La Mère coupable at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In 1969 she joined the Seattle Opera as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus in 1970 at the Boston Opera as Senta in Wagner's Flying Dutchman, 1972 at the Opera of San Antonio as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni ' and at the Chicago Opera as Marguerite in Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust on. Until her retirement as a singer in 1984, they also joined the world as a concert and lieder singer.
As a music educator Curtin initially worked in Aspen and at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. From 1974 to 1983 she was a professor of singing at Yale University, after singing teacher until 1992 and Dean of the School of the Arts at Boston University.
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- West Virginia Music Hall of Fame - Phyllis Curtin
- Soprano
- Opera singer
- Singing teacher
- University teachers ( Yale )
- University teachers (Boston University)
- Americans
- Born 1921
- Woman