Diane McNaron
Diane McNaron (* in Texas ) is an American singer and cabaret director.
Life
McNaron studied opera production at Florida State University with Hans Busch , Max Roethlissberger and Ross Allen . In addition, she took singing lessons from Kurt Weill specialists Randolph and Lys Symonette , from Gianna d'Angelo at Indiana University , from Eleanor Steber , Ena Thiessen , Gino Bechi and Vahan Khanzadian .
She has served as professor and opera director at the University of Adelaide , Northern Arizona University , Northwestern State University and Belmont College and has directed the performance of more than forty operas, musicals, musical revues and cabaret productions. With the 1980s she was artistic director of the Opera de Lafayette in Indiana.
Between 1995 and 1997 she wrote a number of cabaret programs including The truth about Love , Viennese, please! and A french revue . In 1998 she founded the First Light Gala in support of the First Light Women's Shelter in Birmingham, Alabama, and in 2001 the BAA Cabaret Series of the Birmingham Art Association . She also regularly produces events for the Birmingham Peace Project . Since 2004 she has directed the Political Incorrect Cabaret , which she founded , an ensemble of singers, dancers and musicians that performs political cabaret in the style of the Weimar Republic.
In addition to operatic roles such as Musetta in La Bohème , Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Adele in Die Fledermaus , she sang solo parts in the Requiems by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Johannes Brahms and Gabriel Fauré , Georg Friedrich Handel's Messiah and Joseph Haydn's Nelson Mass . In 2000 she recorded the CD Music in Flight with compositions by Kurt Weill , Hanns Eisler , Paul Dessau and LaDonna Smith for the benefit of Doctors Without Borders . On the 2008 album Rosas de Pulpa; She sang Rosas de Cal , accompanied by pianist Heather Coltman, songs by Valdo Sciammarella .
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| SURNAME | McNaron, Diane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer and cabaret director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |