Marie McLaughlin

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Marie McLaughlin (born November 2, 1954 in Hamilton , South Lanarkshire ) is a Scottish opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

McLaughlin studied singing in Glasgow and at the National Opera Studio . She made her debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro . After appearances at the Scottish Opera and the Welsh National Opera , she moved to the English National Opera in 1978 and to the Royal Opera House in London in 1980 . The artist quickly made an international career - she made guest appearances at the Hamburg State Opera , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Opéra National de Paris , the Bavarian State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in , among othersNew York . As a light lyric soprano, McLaughlin was particularly valued for her Mozart roles - Susanna, Zerlina , Despina , but also Donna Elvira . She also sang Norina , Marzelline , Nannetta , Micaëla , Hanna Glawari , Anna in the Seven Deadly Sins , as well as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and both Miss Jessel and Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Srew , both operas by Benjamin Britten . In the late 1980s she made her successful debut as Violetta in Verdi's La traviata at the Glyndebourne Festival . This production by Peter Hall has also been recorded for television and audio media.

The singer has a particularly close relationship with the Salzburg Festival , the Vienna State Opera and the Theater an der Wien . In 1987 and 1988 she sang Susanna in Salzburg, Marzelline in Fidelio in 1990 and in 2006 - at the opening of the Haus für Mozart - Marcellina in Claus Guth's production of Figaro . She also took on this role in 2007, 2009 and 2011. At the State Opera she gave 5 times Adina , 19 times Susanna , 2 times Fidelio-Marzelline (all for the first time in 1986), 10 times as Ilia under Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1987 and 1988) and the Zerlina 6 times (1990). At Theater an der Wien in 2006 she was a formidable Despina in the Patrice Chéreau production of Così fan tutte , in 2013 she returned as a matchmaker Mother Needham in the world premiere of A Harlot's Progress and was able to - alongside Diana Damrau - a big one fight for personal success.

Recordings (selection)

literature

  • Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera , 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When greed and brutal sex lead to ruin , Kurier, October 14, 2013
  2. Jump up ↑ Girls Who Fall and Girls Who Shoot , Die Welt, October 23, 2013
personal data
SURNAME McLaughlin, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , South Lanarkshire