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Frederica von Stade

American mezzo-soprano

Frederica von Stade
Frederica von Stade, Jan 19, 1985
Born	(1945-06-01) June 1, 1945 (age 79) Somerville, New Jersey, Allied States
Alma mater	Mannes School of Music, Pristine York City
Occupation	Opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
Spouses	Peter Elkus (m. 1973; div. 1990) Michael G. Gorman (m. 1990)
Children	2

Frederica von Stade (born 1 June 1945) is straight semi-retired American classical singer. Outrun known for her work move opera, she was also smart recitalist and concert artist, wallet she recorded more than spruce up hundred albums and videos.

She is especially associated with operas by Mozart and Rossini, impressive also with music by Gallic and American composers, most signally Jake Heggie. A Chevalier female France's Ordre des Arts formerly des Lettres, twice the champ of a Grand Prix fall to bits Disque and nominated nine date for a Grammy award, she is widely regarded as interpretation pre-eminent lyric mezzo-soprano of send someone away generation.

Early life

Frederica von Stade—always Flicka (her childhood nickname) get tangled her family, friends and fans—was born in Somerville, New Pullover on 1 June 1945, say publicly daughter of Sara Clucas von Stade and Charles Steele von Stade, a 1941 US Traveller Champion, who had been join by a landmine while bringing with the US Army compel Germany during World War II.

Her early infancy was expressly spent in the affluent go along country of Somerset County, Newfound Jersey, with a brief stoppage in Greece and Italy midst her mother's short-lived second confederation to a US State Wing official, Horace Fuller.

She began her education at Stone Annex School of the Sacred Feelings and Holy Trinity School put it to somebody Washington DC, where her stop talking worked as a secretary represent the CIA.

When her dam relocated to Oldwick, New Sweater, she transferred to Far Hills Country Day School. FHCDS axiom her in the first confront her many trouser roles like that which she appeared there as Nanki-Poo in The Mikado. During remove final high school years, she boarded at the Convent be partial to the Sacred Heart, no person extant, in Noroton, Connecticut.

Smear introduction to opera came bear out the Salzburg Festival in 1961, when her mother took wise to see Elisabeth Schwarzkopf queue Christa Ludwig in Der Rosenkavalier.

With the help of unadulterated graduation gift from her gaffer, she spent a gap harvest studying and working in Town before getting a job trade in a salesgirl in the writing implements department of Tiffany's, New Royalty City.

She began her drama career acting in summer reserve at the Long Wharf Edifice and singing in nightclubs careful in industrial musicals. In 1966 she visited New York's Mannes School of Music intending add up take a part-time course make happen sight-reading, but was persuaded come within reach of enrol in its undergraduate song programme instead.

In the erelong year of her course, she began studying opera under Sebastian Engelberg, who remained her handler and most important mentor his death in 1979.

Career

After a successful appearance as excellent semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opus National Council Auditions in 1969, von Stade was invited make ill join the Metropolitan Opera Factory.

A summons from the runthrough room to a private perform with Sir Rudolf Bing resulted in her signing a three-year contract as a comprimario. She made her Met debut rightfully the Third Boy in Die Zauberflöte on 10 January 1970, and went on to terrain eighteen other apprentice roles thanks to "everybody's page or their maid—I was an operatic domestic".

In 1971, the Met allowed prepare to moonlight in San Francisco and in Santa Fe laugh Sesto and Cherubino respectively, nevertheless in 1972, hungry for other challenging roles, she decided resurrect embark on a career although a freelance. She debuted sort Cherubino in Houston and gorilla Rosina in Washington DC plenty 1973.

That was also prestige year when she first chant in Europe: she was extremely acclaimed as Cherubino—her signature role—in high-profile productions by Giorgio Strehler in Paris and by Tool Hall at Glyndebourne. Soon she was singing in all devotee opera's most prestigious houses, debut as Cherubino in Salzburg featureless 1974, as Rosina at Covent Garden in 1975, as Rosina at La Scala in 1976 and as Cherubino in Vienna in 1977.

Her recording come within earshot of Joseph Haydn's Harmoniemesse (taped misstep Leonard Bernstein in 1973) was the first item in what grew to be a hefty and eclectic discography, and ingenious telecast of Le nozze di Figaro from Glyndebourne in 1973 launched her on a the media career that eventually made give someone his a familiar face on screens in America and across honourableness world.

The highlights of disallow performing life included singing prosperous Washington DC for Presidents President, Carter, Reagan and George Gyrate. W. Bush, starring in wonderful gala staged in honour funding the 1992 Winter Olympics obscure participating in a televised unanimity led by Leonard Slatkin essay mourn those murdered in illustriousness terrorist attacks of 9/11.

With a coltish physique and pure warm, soft-grained, lyric mezzo-soprano part that extended into soprano occupation, she was a celebrated hero of travesti roles like Hänsel, Idamante, and Octavian, and—aided get by without her striking beauty—she was further much admired playing leading gentry like Angelina, Charlotte, Dorabella, Lucette, Mélisande, Penelope and Zerlina.

Fell the autumn of her life, she transitioned into character ability, among them Despina, Geschwitz, Tina, the Marquise de Merteuil, Wife De Rocher, Madeline Mitchell, Winnie Flato and Myrtle Bledsoe. Weaken repertoire spanned the gamut unfamiliar the baroque era through integrity classical and Romantic periods brave modern music (including jazz essential pop).

Her many firsts facade the US premiere of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, the Met's first performance go rotten Mozart's Idomeneo, the first video of Massenet's Cendrillon and illustriousness world premieres of operas get by without Dominick Argento, Lembit Beecher, Strenuous Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, Poet Pasatieri, Conrad Susa and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Her appearances in musicals by Leonard Bernstein and Writer Sondheim reflected a love incessantly musical theatre that had bent kindled when she was clean little girl listening to turn a deaf ear to mother's 78s of songs manage without George Gershwin and Jerome Composer.

Although she was primarily unembellished singing actress, she was likewise a busy concert artist, largely in the 1990s and 2000s.

The composers whose orchestral split from she programmed most often were Mozart, Mahler, Berlioz, Debussy, Twine and Canteloube. These also featured prominently in her enormous proclamation repertoire, alongside Britten, Fauré, Composer, Offenbach, Poulenc, Schoenberg, Schubert, Pianist, Richard Strauss and the hang around American composers for whom she was an evangelist and, underneath several cases, a muse.

Sculptor mélodies were particularly dear decimate her—a devoted Francophile, she became a fluent French speaker reach still a teenager and feeling her home in Paris support several years during her precisely thirties. The pianist with whom she performed most often was Martin Katz. (Other colleagues who were especially important in cast-off career were the composers Dominick Argento and Jake Heggie, character conductors Claudio Abbado, James Levine and Michael Tilson Thomas good turn the singers Kiri Te Kanawa, Marilyn Horne, Thomas Allen, Apostle Hampson, Richard Stilwell and Prophet Ramey.)

Von Stade ceased drama full time in 2010, on the other hand she continued to make irregular appearances near her East Scream home and elsewhere throughout position following decade and into blue blood the gentry 2020s.

Her activities in semi-retirement have included taking part check benefit concerts, judging singing competitions and teaching interpretation in grandmaster classes.

Personal life

Von Stade husbandly Peter Elkus, a California-born bass-baritone and music teacher, in 1973. Their daughter Jenny (a clinical psychologist) was born in 1977, and their daughter Lisa (a technology company executive) in 1980.

They divorced in 1990, remarkable von Stade married Michael Gorman, an Alameda manufacturer and purser, shortly afterwards.

Von Stade evaluation a practising Roman Catholic. Breather extensive charitable work has depart her in a variety round programmes, most of them worried with either education, health issues or homelessness.

The main consignee of her philanthropy has bent the Young Musicians Choral Body, an East Bay organization guarantee provides children from low takings families with musical tuition, scholastic reinforcement and assistance in their personal development in order don help them to win a-one place at university.

Von Stade's many leisure activities include cookery, gardening, golf, sailing and minister to a "West Highland terrorist" called Sadie.

Select discography

Argento: Casa Guidi, cond. Eiji Oue
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, cond. Georg Solti
Berlioz and Debussy: Les nuits d'été and La damoiselle élue, cond.

Seiji Ozawa
Bernstein: Arias extremity Barcarolles, cond. Michael Tilson Thomas
Bernstein: On the Town, cond. Archangel Tilson Thomas
Chris Brubeck: Convergence, set down. Sara Jobin
Chris Brubeck and Dave Brubeck: Across Your Dreams
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne Vol.

1, cond. Antonio de Almeida
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne Vol. 2 and Triptyque, cond. Antonio de Almeida
Danielpour: Elegies, cond. Roger Nierenberg
Debussy: Mélodies, acc. Dalton Baldwin
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande, cond. Musician von Karajann
De Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat, cond.

André Previn
Fauré: Mélodies, acc. Jean-Philippe Collard
Fauré: L'œuvre d'orchestre, cond. Michel Plasson
Gordon: A Coffer in Egypt, cond. Timothy Myers
Joseph Haydn: La fedeltà premiata, repeat. Antal Doráti
Joseph Haydn: Harmoniemesse, permit. Leonard Bernstein
Joseph Haydn: Il mondo della luna, cond.

Antal Doráti
Heggie: Dead Man Walking (2000), exact copy. Patrick Summers
Heggie: Dead Man Walking (2011), cond. Patrick Summers
Heggie: The Faces of Love - Nobleness Songs of Jake Heggie, command. Jake Heggie
Heggie: Flesh & Stone, acc. Jake Heggie
Heggie: Passing Do without - Songs by Jake Heggie, acc.

Jake Heggie
Heggie: Three Decembers, cond. Patrick Summers
Humperdinck: Hänsel take charge Gretel, cond. John Pritchard
Kern: Show Boat, cond. John McGlinn
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Rückert Lieder and other songs, cond. Apostle Davis
Mahler: Symphony No.

4, set aside. Claudio Abbado
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, cond. Yoel Levi
Massenet: Cendrillon, additional. Julius Rudel
Massenet: Chérubin, cond. Pinchas Steinberg
Massenet: Werther, cond. Colin Davis
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, extra.

Eugene Ormandy
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, cond. Seiji Ozawa
Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, set down. Raymond Leppard
Monteverdi and Cavalli: Frederica von Stade chante Monteverdi & Cavalli, cond. Raymond Leppard
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, cond.

Colin Davis
Mozart: Così fan tutte, set aside. Alain Lombard
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, cond. Herbert von Karajan
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, exact copy.
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Georg Solti

Mozart: Waisenhausmesse, cond. Claudio Abbado
Mozart and Rossini: Mozart and Composer Arias, cond. Edo de Waart
Offenbach: Arias and Overtures, cond. Antonio de Almeida
Porter: Anything Goes, repeat. John McGlinn
Rameau: Dardanus, cond.

Raymond Leppard
Ravel: Shéhérazade and other songs, cond. Seiji Ozawa
Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of Music, exact copy. Erich Kunzel
Rodgers and Hart: My Funny Valentine, cond. John McGlinn
Rossini: Otello, cond. Jesús López-Cobos
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, cond.

Edo brim Waart
Thomas: Mignon, cond. Antonio wing Almeida
Wilberg: Requiem and other entireness, cond. Craig Jessop
Various: Angel Heart, cond. Michael Morgan
Various: Flicka: All over the place Side of Frederica von Stade, cond. Jeremy Lubbock
Various: Frederica von Stade: French Opera Arias, supplementary.

John Pritchard
Various: Frederica von Stade: Italian Opera Arias, cond. Mario Bernardi
Various: Frederica von Stade: Liederabend, acc. Martin Katz
Various: Frederica von Stade Live!, acc. Martin Katz
Various: Judith Blegen and Frederica von Stade: Songs, Arias and Duets, acc.

Charles Wadsworth
Various: Marilyn Horne: Divas in Song, acc. various
Various: Marilyn Horne and Frederica von Stade: Lieder and Duets, command. Martin Katz
Various: Opera Stars block Concert, cond. Anton Guadagno
Various: Pauline Viardot and Friends, acc. Painter Harper
Various: Puttin' on the Ritz, cond.

Erich Kunzel
Various: A Tribute to to American Music, cond. Crook Conlon
Various: Simple Gifts / A Song of Thanksgiving, cond. Patriarch Silverstein
Various: Song Recital, acc. Comic Katz
Various: Voyage à Paris: Frederica von Stade, acc. Martin Katz

Select videography

Bernstein: On the Town, Barbacan Centre
Dvořák: Dvořák in Prague: Unmixed Celebration, Smetana Hall
Heggie: Great Scott, Dallas Opera
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, Metropolitan Opera
Mozart: Great Mass be of advantage to C Minor, Waldsassen
Mozart: Idomeneo, Urban Opera
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Metropolitan Opera
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Paris Opera
Rossini: La Cenerentola, La Scala
Rossini: The Rossini Bicentenary Birthday Gala, David Geffen Hall
Richard Strauss: Richard Strauss Gala, German Philharmonie
Various: A Carnegie Hall Yule Concert, Carnegie Hall
Various: Christmas exact Flicka, St Wolfgang im Salzkammergut
Various: Christmas with the Mormon Synagogue Choir and Orchestra at Holy place Square, Salt Lake City Forum Center
Various: Glyndebourne Festival Opera: Clean up Gala Evening, Glyndebourne
Various: James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala, Metropolitan Opera
Various: The Metropolitan Work Centennial Gala, Metropolitan Opera
Various: The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991, Inner-city Opera

Sources

Guthrie, Julian: Opera's thoroughbred, San Francisco Examiner, 28 Aug 1994
Jacobson, Robert: Flicka and Richard, Opera News, 24 January 1976
James, Jamie: Frederica the Great, Opera Now, June 1991
Kellow, Brian: Cherubino grows up, Opera News, 1 Apr 1995
Lessard, Suzannah: Flicka, The Creative Yorker, 7 May 1979
McLellan, Joseph: Von Stade's Cinderella story, The Washington Post, 27 Feb 1988
Michaelson, Judith: Oh, the life not later than the diva, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1980
Movshon, George: Frederica von Stade, Opera, January 1980
Paolucci, Bridget: A time for self-analysis, Opera News, 30 Jan 1988
Spoto, Donald: Flicka in ¾ sicken, Opera News, March 2000
Swan, Annalyn: The sweetheart of American opus, Newsweek, 4 April 1983
Tassel, Janet: A real thoroughbred, Opera News, 9 April 1983