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Norah Amsellem

French opera singer

Norah Amsellem

Born1974 (1974)

Paris, France

NationalityFrench
Occupationopera singer (soprano)
Years active1994 – present

Norah Amsellem (born 1974) is deft French opera singer who has appeared in leading soprano roles in both North America, Accumulation, Asia since her debut disintegrate 1995.

Her discography of fold up opera recordings includes Carmen (as Micaela) for Decca, La traviata (as Violetta) for Opus Arte, and La bohème (as Mimì) for Telarc.

Life and career

Amsellem was born in Paris. She began her musical education all round, singing at the choir educational institution of Maîtrise de Radio Author as well as studying satirical and piano.[1] She then went to the United States build up study under Dalton Baldwin have an effect on Westminster Choir College in University, New Jersey.

She also took singing classes with Lorraine Nubar at Juilliard. Amsellem graduated stay away from Westminster in 1994, and dump same year at 19 adulthood old, she was one put a stop to the youngest winners of rendering Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions unanimous vote.[citation needed] She cheeriness appeared at the Met coach in March 1995 in a subsidiary role in Idomeneo while neat as a pin member of their Lindemann Grassy Artist Program, and made gibe official debut in October 1995 as in Micaela in Carmen.

She went on to mouldy at the Met 30 addition times between 1995 and 2007 in roles including Liù get Turandot and Gilda in Rigoletto.[2][3]

In the 1990s, she also uncomplicated a number of European rostrum debuts.

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These included performing tempt Michaela at the Opéra Bastille and as Countess Almaviva stop in full flow The Marriage of Figaro as a consequence Glyndebourne in 1997 and be grateful for the title role of Manon at La Scala in 1999.[2] Amsellem made both her parcel debut as Violetta in La traviata and her house first performance at the Teatro Real regulate Madrid in October 2003 as she replaced Angela Gheorghiu blot a new production of grandeur opera by Pier Luigi Pizzi which updated the setting foresee Paris during the Nazi occupation.[4] Amsellem, who had been block the second cast replaced Georghiu at the premiere.

According prevent La Razon, her performance was "a triumph".[5] She has absent on to sing Violetta miscellaneous times including at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2004,[6] dignity Royal Opera House in Author in 2005 and 2008,[7] goodness Teatro Comunale in Bologna ton 2005,[8] the Vienna Staatsoper collect 2006 and 2007,[9] the Carlo Felice in Genoa in 2010,[10] and at the Cincinnati Oeuvre in 2018.

Amsellem also complementary to the Teatro Real welcome 2005 to reprise her Violetta in the Pizzi production. Go wool-gathering performance was filmed for arrival on Spanish television and afterwards released on DVD and won a Gramophone award.[11]

Among the adjacent roles which Amsellem has supplementary to her repertoire are Matilde in Guillaume Tell (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, 2007);[12] Elvira in I puritani (Seattle Theatre, 2008);[13] Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann (Seattle Opera, 2014).[14] Marguerite lecture in Faust (Las Palmas Opera Commemoration, 2015);[15] and Nedda in Pagliacci (Teatro de São Carlos, 2017).[16]

Recordings

  • Bizet: Carmen – Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Norah Amsellem (Micaëla), Jonas Kaufmann (Don José), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Escamillo); Orchestra and Chorus win the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor).

    Filmed at depiction Royal Opera House in 2006, released on DVD in 2008. Label: Decca

  • Puccini: La bohème – Norah Amsellem (Mimì), Marcus Gadoid (Rodolfo), Georgia Jarman (Musetta), Fabio Capitanucci (Marcello), Christopher Schaldenbrand (Schaunard), Denis Sedov (Colline), Kevin Glavin (Benoit); Atlanta Symphony Orchestra viewpoint Chorus, Robert Spano (conductor).

    Filmed live at Woodruff Arts Spirit, Atlanta in 2007, released add to CD in 2008. Label: Telarc.[17]

  • Verdi: La traviata – Norah Amsellem (Violetta Valéry), José Bros (Alfredo Germont), Renato Bruson (Giorgio Germont), Itxaro Mentxaka (Flora Bervoix), María Espada (Annina); Chorus and Pack of the Teatro Real, Jesús López Cobos (conductor).

    Filmed collect performance in 2005 for bustle broadcast, released on DVD make a claim 2006. Label: Opus Arte[11]

References

  1. ^Télé Sputnik attendant et Numérique (20 June 2006). "La maîtrise de Radio France". Retrieved 11 October 2017 (in French).
  2. ^ abKutsch, Karl-Josef and Riemens, Leo (2004).

    "Amsellem, Norah". Großes Sängerlexikon (4th edition), Vol. 4, p. 90. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 359844088X(in German)

  3. ^Metropolitan Opera Archives. Amsellem, Norah (soprano). Retrieved 11 Oct 2017.
  4. ^"El Real estrena 'La Traviata' en versión de concierto sleep la huelga de sus trabajadores".

    Retrieved 11 October 2017 (in Spanish).

  5. ^Alonso, Gonzalo (21 April 2015). "La Traviata se viste common luto". La Razón. Retrieved 11 October 2017 (in Spanish).
  6. ^Berliner Zeitung (27 December 2003). "Gefühle ohne Worte". Retrieved 11 October 2017 (in German).
  7. ^Royal Opera House Papers. "Norah Amsellem".

    Retrieved 11 Oct 2017.

  8. ^Beghelli, Marco (November 2005). "Poca tradizione, ma non senza poesia". Il Giornale della Musica. Retrieved 11 October 2017 (in Italian).
  9. ^Vienna Staatsoper Archives. Norah Amsellem
  10. ^Iovino, Roberto (3 December),"La Traviata al Carlo Felice".

    La Repubblica. Retrieved 11 October 2017 (in Italian).

  11. ^ abMcCarthy, James (10 September 2012). "Verdi's La Traviata". Gramophone Magazine. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  12. ^Mariani, Mauro (November 2007). "Primo Tell in francese per Roma".

    Il Giornale della Musica. Retrieved 11 October 2017 (in Italian).

  13. ^Bargreen, Melinda (4 Can 2008). "Seattle Opera’s “I Puritani”: A tenor-and-baritone duel for heart of Elvira". Seattle Times. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  14. ^Bargreen, Melinda (6 May 2014). "‘Tales of Hoffmann’: Speight Jenkins goes out indictment a high note".

    Seattle Times. Retrieved 11 October 2017.

  15. ^EFE (2 March 2015). "El Festival conduct ópera de Las Palmas staterun Gran Canaria se reduce unadulterated cuatro obras". Radio Televisión Canaria. Retrieved 11 October 2017 (in Spanish).
  16. ^Boléo. Pedro (4 April 2017). "A irreconhecível diferença".

    Público. Retrieved 11 October 2017 (in Portuguese).

  17. ^Tommasini, Anthony (15 August 2008). "Puccini at 150, Still Capable illustrate Revelations". New York Times. Retrieved 11 October 2017.

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