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Revision as of 12:55, 19 October 2010
Shirley Love (born 6 January 1940[1]) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Born in Detroit, she studied singing in her home city with Avery Crew before pursuing further voice training with Marinka Gurevich and Margaret Harshaw in New York City. She made her professional opera début at the Metropolitan Opera on November 30, 1963 as the Second Lady in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute with Anna Moffo as Pamina, Nicolai Gedda as Tamino, Gianna D'Angelo as The Queen of the Night, Cesare Siepi as Sarastro, Theodor Uppman as Papageno, and Silvio Varviso conducting.[2]
Love remained at the Met for the next 20 consecutive seasons, notably portraying Amneris in Aida, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Annina in Der Rosenkavalier, Delilah in Samson and Delilah, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Emilia in Otello, Fricka in The Ring Cycle, Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Marina in Boris Godunov, Mother Jeanne in Dialogues des Carmélites, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and the title heroine in Carmen. She also sang a large number of secondary roles at the house.[3] Guest appearances took her to Europe (Germany and Italy) and to Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Miami. Among her modern repertory were roles in Sergius Kagen’s Hamlet and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti.[2]
Love has received reviews for her recorded work in the The New York Times, Opera News, and Ovation Magazine. Said recordings include The Diary of One who Vanished by Leoš Janáček and The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky. A portrait of the soprano can be found in the Metropolitan Opera gallery, New York City.
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