Ruth Ann Swenson (born 1960) is an Americansoprano. Jump to: navigation, search 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Look up Soprano on Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music, a soprano is a singer with a voice ranging approximately from the A below middle C to high C two octaves above middle C (i. ...
Born in Commack, New York, she studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1991 as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni. In 1993, she won the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award. Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² or 54,556 square miles (27th) - Land... Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... Jump to: navigation, search A full house at the old Metropolitan Opera House, seen from the rear of the stage, at the Metropolitan Opera House for a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann, November 28, 1937. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... Jump to: navigation, search Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
(The 1987 Juliette, for instance, found Swenson singing her death scene with the same sunny tone she used in the balcony and bedroom scenes.) The staging of Ophélie's death scene, with the soprano seeming to sink into a deep pool as her voice faded away, was the most spine-tingling moment of the season.
As soon as Swenson's career began to take off internationally, EMI signed her to a recording contract and released her first album of coloratura arias, Positively Golden, which was greeted with some skepticism because of the marketing campaign featuring Swenson's golden mane.
Swenson's beauty of tone, smooth legato and crystalline diction proved that she was much more than a mere coloratura canary; she had a personal, direct way with intimate music as well.
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