Janet Williams

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Janet Williams (born before 1987) is an American opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

She received her Bachelor of Music Degrees in Singing and School Music from Michigan State University in East Lansing. She then studied singing with Camilla Williams and completed her Master of Music Degree at Indiana University in Bloomington. She began singing at the San Francisco Opera , where she was a member of the Merola Opera and Adler Fellowship programs from 1987 to 1991. She received the first Merola Advanced Training Award and a scholarship to take singing lessons from Regine Crespin in Paris, France.

Since the 1990s, Janet Williams has worked on international opera and concert stages with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim , Colin Davis , Péter Eötvös , Philippe Herreweghe , René Jacobs , Marek Janowski , Neeme Järvi , Fabio Luisi , Neville Marriner , Nicholas McGegan , Zubin Mehta , Kent Nagano , Donald Runnicles , Michael Tilson Thomas , Sebastian Weigle , Simone Young and Lothar Zagrosek . From 1992 to 1997 she was a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin . She also made a guest appearance a. a. at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the San Francisco Opera, the Washington Opera, in Paris at the Opéra Bastille, Opéra Garnier and the Théatre de Champs-Elysées, the Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Nice, Grand Théatre de Genève, and in Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig, Mannheim, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Brussels in leading roles in the lyric coloratura subject from composers from the baroque to the modern. As a concert and oratorio singer she worked a. a. with orchestras in Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig, Dresden, Munich, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Rome, Palermo, Monte Carlo, Liverpool and Santiago de Compostello. She performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, at the Berlin Festival, the Handel Festival in Halle, the Spoleto Festival Italy, the Festival of Ancient Music in Innsbruck and in Montreux; Schwetzingen; Avignon; Wexford, Ireland and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has given recitals in Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Ísafjörður (Iceland), New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington DC and in Carmel, California. Williams has lived in Berlin since 1992.

The CD at Harmonia Mundi France of Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare, in which Janet Williams sang the title role, received the Grand Prix du Disque. Other CDs include Handel's Messiah (Harmonia Mundi) with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem (Erato) with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto (Arts) with Gabrielle Bellini. In addition, she had television appearances a. a. The Kennedy Center Honors for CBS , San Francisco Opera Gala for PBS Great Performances Series, in the Oscar- winning documentary In the Shadow of the Stars as Musetta in La Bohème and the documentary L'opera Seria for Arte . She also made recordings for radio stations in Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig and Munich.

Janet Williams has been teaching at the Rostock University of Music and Theater since 2009 and works as a lecturer at the Lotte Lehmann Summer Academy in Perleberg. In addition, she gives master classes at various universities and music schools as well as for young artist programs. B. in London, Paris, Iceland, and the USA. In 2006 she wrote the book Nail Your Next Audition, the Ultimate 30-Day Countdown for Singers . The book was published in 2007 in German under the title Successful Audition! The 30-day countdown to take off appeared.

Works

  • Audition Successfully !: The 30-Day Countdown to Take Off , Performance Enhancement By Design, 2008, ISBN 0-97875-211-2

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personal data
SURNAME Williams, Janet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH before 1987