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Derek Lee Ragin (born June 17, 1958) is an American countertenor.[1]
Ragin studied as a piano major at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. While at Oberlin he took secondary voice lessons with Richard Anderson. He began his operatic career at Oberlin in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Oberon.[1] After Oberlin, He worked with singer Max van Egmond for a summer session at BPI and went to Europe to pursue his career in Baroque opera.[2]
For the soundtrack of the 1994 film Farinelli, his voice was electronically blended with that of soprano Ewa Malas-Godlewska to recreate the famous castrato's voice.[3]
References
- ^ a b Derek Lee Ragin > Biography allmusic
- ^ Waleson,Heidi (2006) Everything Old is New Again: Historical Performance at Oberlin (continued) Oberline magazine
- ^ Gabrielli, Betty (Summer, 1996) A Friendly Conspiracy Oberline Alumni magazine
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