Janis Martin (singer, 1939)
Janis Martin (born August 16, 1939 in Sacramento , California , † December 14, 2014 in San Antonio , Texas ) was an American opera singer (mezzo-soprano, soprano).
Life
After studying singing in Sacramento and New York, Martin received his first engagement at the San Francisco Opera House in 1960. She first sang mezzo-soprano roles such as Venus in Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg , Marina in Boris Godunow and Mrs. Quickly in Falstaff . After winning the 1962 Metropolitan Opera singing competition in New York, she received a three-year contract there. In 1965 she accepted an engagement at the Nuremberg Opera House. From 1970 she switched to the soprano subject. She has performed at La Scala in Milan , the Vienna State Opera , the Grand Opéra Paris , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Covent Garden Opera in London and in Monte Carlo, Amsterdam, Zurich, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne and Frankfurt a. M. on.
She was particularly valued as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operatic roles such as Isolde in Tristan and Isolde , Kundry in Parsifal and Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen . In Vienna in 1972 she took over the Senta in a new production of The Flying Dutchman . Between 1968 and 1997 she could be heard regularly at the Bayreuth Festival .
Recordings
- Schönberg: CBS expectation
- Wagner: Rienzi (role: Adriano) EMI
- Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (role: Magdalene) Orfeo
- Wagner: Das Rheingold (role: Fricka) Myto
- Wagner: Tannhäuser (role: Venus) melodrama
- Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (role: Senta) Decca
- Wagner: Die Walküre (role: Brünnhilde) Exclusive
- Zemlinsky: Der Traumgörge (role: Princess / Gertraud) Capriccio
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon Saur-Verlag
- Steiger: Operas - A directory of all recordings from Cormoran-Verlag
Web links
- Janis Martin's sound carrier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Janis Martins appearances at the Vienna State Opera
- Janis Martin in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Janis Martin at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martin, Janis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American opera singer (mezzo-soprano, soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sacramento , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 2014 |
| Place of death | San Antonio , Texas |