Elizabeth Kingdon

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Elizabeth Kingdon (born January 25, 1928 in Schenectady , New York ) is an American opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Elizabeth Kingdon was born in 1928 in Schenectady, New York, the daughter of researcher Kenneth H. Kingdon. At the request of her father, she completed a degree in mathematics at Vassar College and graduated in 1947 with a bachelor's degree. Only then did she take up her singing studies in Boston and New York . With a Fulbright scholarship she came to the State University of Music in Frankfurt am Main in 1956 .

Her first engagement took her to the Bielefeld Theater in 1958 , where she made her debut as Leonore in Die Macht des Schicksals ( Verdi ). Further roles in the first season: Jenufa in Jenufa ( Janáček ), Countess in The Marriage of Figaro ( Mozart ) and Marie in The Bartered Bride ( Smetana ).

In 1963 she moved to the Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg , where she sang all the important roles in the subject of "youth drama" until 1985. Guest appearances have taken her primarily as a Wagner interpreter to other theaters in the Federal Republic of Germany , the GDR , Austria , Switzerland and France .

At the same time, she joined the Pocket Opera Company , Nuremberg (POC) in 1976 , and started a second career with this independent theater group as a satirizing diva. As Wally in Die Geierwally ( Catalani ), Lucrezia in Lucrezia Borgia ( Donizetti ) or Emmy, Malwina and Janthe in Der Vampyr ( Marschner ), she has appeared at theater festivals and at opera houses in Italy , France, Spain , Portugal , Great Britain , Switzerland and Poland , Sweden , Norway , Mexico and New Zealand .

In addition, she participated in numerous world premieres by contemporary composers, which were commissioned for the POC and for the Pegnitzschäfer Klangkonzepte .

In 2001 she founded the Kingdon Grünwald Foundation. Its aim is to promote art and culture in the field of music , especially in the field of innovative - experimental music theater in the Nuremberg metropolitan region .

Discography

  • Verdi - Aida (German) as Aida with Rosl Zapf, Arturo Sergi, Ernst Gutstein, choir and orchestra of the Frankfurt Opera Direction: Carl Bamberger (MMS-2135), 1957
  • Mozart - Don Giovanni (Italian) as Donna Anna with Scipio Colombo, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Jean Giraudeau, Uta Graf, Fritz Ollendorff, Paolo Gorin, Hans Hofmann, choir and orchestra of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, conducted by Alexander Kranhals (Mms-2121), 1958

TV appearances and films

  • Eliza's Pocket Paradise . TV show 'Kölner Treff' on WDR / Cologne July 25, 1982
  • Lucrezia Borgia . (8 minute version). TV show “Bio's Bahnhof” on WDR / Cologne
  • Portrait of the Franken media workshop

Participation in world premieres

  • 1977: Music-Kinetics-Scene (Kunold / Rempe / Kagel)
  • 1979: Saroya ( Meynaud )
  • 1983: You, always only you (Bieler / Hummel )
  • 1991: ... rush out of the disco and horrified passers-by ask if they are German (Andreas Schäfer)
  • 2005: The world is a disc ( Hartl )
  • 2006: carbon monoxide ( Obermüller )

Awards

  • 1977: Star of the Year from the Nuremberg evening paper
  • 1984: City of Nuremberg Prize for Art and Science
  • 1995: Honorary member of the State Theater in Nuremberg
  • 2003: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2008: Star of the year from the Nuremberg evening newspaper

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personal data
SURNAME Kingdon, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenectady , New York