【今日女低音】克拉拉玛·特纳
2016/5/18 古典音乐

     美国女低音歌唱家克拉拉玛·特纳(Claramae Turner)2013年5月18日在加州Santa Rosa去世，享年92岁。

     Born in Dinuba, California, she began her career at the Bush Street Music Hall in San Francisco, where she sang the contralto leads in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; at the same time she joined the chorus of San Francisco Opera. She made her San Francisco Opera principal debut as The Voice in Les contes d'Hoffmann in 1945, and sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1946 to 1950, appearing in Faust (as Marthe, opposite Raoul Jobin), Boris Godunov (as the H?tesse, with Ezio Pinza), A?da (as Amneris),H?nsel und Gretel (as Gertrud), Roméo et Juliette (as Gertrude, withJussi Bj?rling and Bidù Say?o), Le nozze di Figaro (as Marcellina), Siegfried (as Erda, with Lauritz Melchior and Astrid Varnay), Cavalleria rusticana (as Lucia), Il barbiere di Siviglia (as Berta, opposite Giuseppe Valdengo and Lily Pons), Peter Grimes (as Auntie), and Gianni Schicchi (as Zita).

     Turner then sang with the New York City Opera from 1953 to 1969, in The Medium, H?nsel und Gretel(now as The Witch), ?dipus rex (as Jocasta, with Richard Cassilly, conducted by Leopold Stokowski),Suor Angelica (as the Zia Principessa, conducted by Julius Rudel), Carmen, Louise (as the Mère), The Ballad of Baby Doe (as Augusta, with Beverly Sills), Dialogues des Carmélites (as Madame de Croissy),Bomarzo (as Diana Orsini, opposite Salvador Novoa, directed by Tito Capobianco), Iolanthe (as the Queen of the Fairies), Lady Jane in Patience and The Mikado (as Katisha), among others.

    

     She created the role of Madame Flora in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium, in 1946 at its first performances at Columbia University. She reprised the role in an episode of Omnibus on television, conducted by Werner Torkanowsky, (1959). She also recorded the role of Ma Moss in Aaron Copland'sThe Tender Land (opposite Joy Clements and Norman Treigle, conducted by the composer, 1965), and Gertrud in an English version of Engelbert Humperdinck's H?nsel und Gretel, starring Ris? Stevens and Nadine Conner (1947). This performance was one of the first Metropolitan Opera record albums of a complete opera ever released (by Columbia Masterworks Records). Miss Turner reprised the role on television in a performance on NBC Opera Theatre.