Emily Magee

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Emily Magee (born October 31, 1965 in New York ) is an American opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Magee studied at Westminster Choir College in Princeton and with Margaret Harshaw at Indiana University in Bloomington . She made her stage debut in 1995 as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Lyric Opera of Chicago . Mozart was particularly central at the beginning of her career, she sang in all three Da Ponte operas - in addition to Firodiligi, Countess, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna - as well as Elettra in Idomeneo . In 1996 she made her debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin as Elsa in Lohengrin with Peter Seiffert in the title role. It was conducted by Daniel Barenboim , who then invited her to take on Eva in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the 1997 Bayreuth Festival .

She returned to Chicago as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust , as Liù in Puccini's Turandot and as Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes , and later as Elsa and Chrysothemis in Elektra . In Berlin she also sang Desdemona (in Verdi's Otello ), Eva, Donna Anna and Countess. She quickly received invitations to major opera houses across Europe, including the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Hamburg State Opera , the Opéra National de Lyon , the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, ​​as well as the La Scala in Milan , where she as Janáček's Jenůfa and as Empress in a Claus Guth production of the woman without a shadow could achieve substantial successes. Magee has also performed in Oviedo, Bologna, San Francisco, Essen, Miami, Brussels, Florence, Tokyo and Santiago de Chile.

As Ariadne , with Jonas Kaufmann (Bacchus), Salzburg Festival 2012

Richard Strauss increasingly became the central composer of her career, she interpreted - besides Chrysothemis and Empress - the title roles in Salome , Ariadne auf Naxos , Daphne and Arabella , as well as the Field Marshal in Rosenkavalier and the Countess in Capriccio . In addition to Elsa and Eva, she also took on other Wagner roles, such as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser , Freia in Rheingold and Gutrune in Götterdämmerung , sang Verdi's Lina (in Stiffelio ) and his Amelia (in Simone Boccanegra ), as well as Puccinis Tosca and his Minnie in La fanciulla del West .

The artist works closely with the Zurich Opera House , where she was seen and heard in three Strauss roles, as well as Ellen Orford and Elsa, Lina, Tosca and Minnie. Magee also sang Marietta in Korngold's Toter Stadt in Zurich , Rosalinde in the Fledermaus by Johann Strauss , Katerina in Martinů's The Greek Passion , Francesca da Rimini in Riccardo Zandonai 's opera of the same name , and Ursula in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler .

The singer also likes to perform in Austria: she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1999 as Eva in the Meistersinger , sang Marietta in the Dead City in 2006 , returned in 2012 as Arabella and Tosca , and finally embodied Ariadne in 2014 in Salzburg production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf . She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2008 as the Foreign Princess in the Rusalka production by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, and in 2012 she took on Ariadne auf Naxos with Daniel Harding on the podium. In 2013 she sang Irene in a concert in Wagner's Rienzi and one of the soprano solos in Mahler's Eighth .

Her planned role debut as Beethoven's Fidelio in September 2013 in Bremen and Bonn had to be canceled due to illness, but her debut at the Met in January 2014 - as the Stranger Princess in Dvořák's Rusalka , alongside Renée Fleming , Dolora Zajick and Piotr Beczała - took place .

In the concert hall she sings recitals as well as large choral orchestral works, such as Britten's War Requiem , in which she could be heard in Munich, Lucerne and Bergen, as well as in Berlin with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Simon Rattle . In 2014 she toured Europe with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and Richard Strauss ' Four Last Songs , from Stockholm to Aix-en-Provance, Interlaken, Madrid, Lisbon and Vienna to Munich.

Award

  • 2008 Prize of the German Record Critics - Best DVD for Ariadne auf Naxos (Zurich Opera House)

Recordings (selection)

On DVD

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beethovenfest Bonn , accessed on August 27, 2014
  2. ↑ [1] , accessed on August 27, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Magee, Emily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH new York