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
- ↑ 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.
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SURNAME | DeVol, Luana |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Vol, Luana |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American opera singer (soprano) |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Mateo , California |