Alexandra Deshorties

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Alexandra Deshorties (born 1975) is a French-Canadian soprano who sings principally opera. She was born in Montreal and raised in Marseille, France, where she attended the Conservatory and "where she earned a gold medal/first prize for her performance in vocal juries." [1] She continued her education at the Manhattan School of Music where she was a pupil of Patricia Misslin. [2]

A winner of the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions (and a participant in the National Council Winners Concert on 2 March 1997) [3] at 21, she entered the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist program the following season [4] and made her debut with the company as the High Priestess in Aida on 30 October 1999. [3] She has since appeared in a large number of roles both with the Met (where she sang Elettra ( Idomeneo ), Konstanze ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail ), The Countess ( The Marriage of Figaro ), and Fiordiligi ( Così fan tutte ) [4] and with other companies throughout the world.

Principal roles and opera companies

For the Dallas Opera, she has sung the roles of Desdemona in Otello in October 2009 [5] as well as that of Juliana Bordereau in Argento's The Aspern Papers in April 2013. [6] As Fiordiligi and as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare , she appeared at the Seattle Opera. [4]

Other roles include the First Lady ( Die Zauberflöte ); Anna ( Nabucco ); Musetta ( La bohème ); Echo ( Ariadne auf Naxos ); Tytania ( A Midsummer Night's Dream ); Elizabeth I of England ( Roberto Devereux ) for Welsh National Opera in October/November 2013 [7] [8]

Deshorties has appeared at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, France; the Salzburg Festival; the San Francisco Opera; the Houston Grand Opera; the Brooklyn Academy of Music; the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; the A Coruña Festival, Spain; the Gstaad Festival; the Theater an der Wien (Elisabetta in Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra ). [9]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Artist's Biography Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine on robert-gilder.com
  2. ↑ Kandell, Leslie (April 2002). "The Misslin Guide". Opera News . 66 (10): 10–11.
  3. 1 2 Met Opera Archives on archives.metoperafamily.org. Retrieved 11 November 2013
  4. 1 2 3 Deshorties' profile on Welsh National Opera website on wno.org.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2013
  5. ↑ Anthony Tommasini, "Verdi’s Moor, Edgy in Cyprus or Dallas" (Review of the Dallas production with Deshorties), The New York Times , 25 October 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2013
  6. ↑ Anne Midgette, "Dallas Opera rescues a work from undeserved obscurity" The Washington Post, 19 April 2013
  7. ↑ "Donizetti's Roberto Devereux". bbc.co.uk. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  8. ↑ Rian Evans (3 October 2013). "Roberto Devereux – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  9. ↑ "Elisabetta". Theater an der Wien. Retrieved 28 April 2020.

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