Maria Ewing
Maria Louise Ewing (born March 27, 1950 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American opera singer ( soprano / mezzo-soprano ).
Life
Ewing is the youngest of four daughters. She studied in Cleveland , Ohio and New York City .
Ewing made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1976 in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro as Cherubino. Her first role in Europe was Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in Milan . Her repertoire also includes Carmen , Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte , Salome, Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck , Katarina Ismailowa in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk and the Périchole in Jacques Offenbach's La Périchole .
Ewing is famous for her extraordinary talent for representation. She also did not shy away from following Oscar Wilde's directing instructions in Richard Strauss ' Salome , and was completely naked after the Dance of the Seven Veils. However, she also sang roles as diverse as Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas , Georges Bizet's Carmen or Rosina in a Glyndebourne production by Il barbiere di Siviglia (1982) or Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine (2011).
She also interprets jazz.
From 1982 to 1990 she was married to the director Sir Peter Hall , with whom she has a daughter, the actress Rebecca Hall .
Her portrayal of Cherubino in the Figaro film by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle made her famous in Europe.
Web links
- Sound carrier with Maria Ewing in the catalog of the German National Library
- Maria Ewing at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Maria Ewing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Ewing, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ewing, Maria Louise (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American opera singer (soprano / mezzo-soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit , Michigan |