Luana DeVol

Luana DeVol , also Luana De Vol (born November 30, 1942 in San Mateo , California) is an American opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Luana DeVol started out in church and college choirs. She was later a member of the San Francisco Opera Choir . After further vocal studies at the United States University in San Diego and with the tenor Jess Thomas , among others , she appeared as a soloist. She sang at the San Francisco Opera, in Seattle and in Stuttgart. From 1983 to 1986 she was engaged at the Stadttheater Aachen. In 1986 she became a member of the Mannheim National Theater . From here an international career developed with appearances in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Bologna, Milan, Paris, Zurich, Vienna as well as at the Bayreuth Festival and the Salzburg Festival . Her repertoire mainly includes highly dramatic soprano roles in the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss . In 1997 and 2000, Luana DeVol was singer of the year in the yearbook of Opernwelt magazine.

Discography

CD recordings (selection)

• Schreker: Irrelohe (role: Eva) Sony
• Strauss: Elektra (role: Chrysothemis) Harmonia Mundi
• Wagner: Götterdämmerung (role: Brünnhilde) Naxos
• Opera arias Canterino

DVD recordings (selection)

• Puccini: Turandot (role: Turandot) TDK
• Strauss: The woman without a shadow (role: Empress) TDK
• Wagner: Lohengrin (role: Ortrud) Naxos
• Wagner: Götterdämmerung (role: Brünnhilde) TDK

literature

• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Saur-Verlag 2000.
• Manuel Brug: The new singers' voices Henschel-Verlag 2003

Web links

• Luana DeVol at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bayerische.staatsoper.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 12, 2011 ; accessed on May 31, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.