Beatriz Parra Durango (born 1940) is an Ecuadorian classical soprano.
Beatriz Parra Durango (born 1940) is an Ecuadorian classical soprano.
Parra Durango was born in Guayaquil [1] the only child of Antonio Parra (1900-1994) and journalist Dora Durango Lopez (1916-1999). [2] Parra's first studies took place at the Conservatory Antonio Neumane in Guayaquil, where she became the soloist of the Conservatory's choir.[ citation needed ]
 | This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources .(August 2023) |
In 1957, she received her first prize when she participated in the competition "Searching for a Voice in Ecuador", organized by the House of Culture and Radio CRE. That same year she became part of the cast of the Lyrical Ensemble of the House of Culture.
In 1958, she performed for the first time as a soloist onstage in the role of Duchess Carolina in the zarzuela "Luisa Fernanda". In 1959, she sang the lead role in the Spanish opera Marina under the direction of the Spanish Maestro Carlos Arijita. In 1960 she travelled to Moscow on a scholarship given by the Ministry of Culture of the then USSR, and studied classical singing at the Moscow Conservatory, studying under Nina Dorliak, wife to pianist Sviatoslav Richter. She graduated with the Award For Excellence in 1966.
In 1965, she won the silver medal and second place in the International Vocal Competition organized by the city of Toulouse, France. She sang as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Moscow and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. That same year she received the gold medal in the Musical Competition of George Enesco, Romania.
She earned several first places in vocal competitions in Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela. In 1975 she received the award "Conchita Badía" in Santiago de Compostela.
For fifteen years she was a prima donna and soloist with the Colombia Opera Theater, where her repertoire included verismo such as Verdi and Puccini, romanticists such as Donizetti and classicists such as Mozart. She performed the role of Michaela in Carmen for the Bolshoi Opera House . In the fall of 2001 she was a guest performer of the Iberoamerican Culture Festival.
Parra Durango married Enrique Gil, with whom she had her only daughter, singer and classical trainee Beatriz Gil Parra.[ citation needed ]
Currently, although retired, she teaches voice as head of the Beatriz Parra Foundation, along with the Armenian baritone Konstantin Simonian. [3]
Angela M. Brown is an American dramatic soprano particularly admired for her portrayal of Verdi heroines.
Camilla Ella Williams was an American operatic soprano who performed nationally and internationally. After studying with renowned teachers in New York City, she was the first African American to receive a regular contract with a major American opera company, the New York City Opera. She had earlier won honors in vocal competitions and the Marian Anderson Fellowship in 1943–44.
Laura Claycomb is an American lyric coloratura soprano singer.
Jayne West is an American operatic soprano, who was born in White Plains, New York on April 24, 1955, and was raised in Framingham, Massachusetts. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and Masters in Music Teaching from Oberlin College, she moved to Boston, where she received her Masters in Music, magna cum laude from the Boston Conservatory.
Sondra Dee Radvanovsky is an American soprano. Specializing in 19th-century Italian opera, Radvanovsky is widely regarded as a leading interpreter of bel canto, verismo, and works by Giuseppe Verdi. She repertoire includes the title roles in Médée, Norma, Tosca, Rusalka, Leonora in Il trovatore, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, and Donizetti's "Tudor Queens", the title roles in Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux.
Mary Elizabeth Mills is an American opera singer.
Oksana Dyka, also rendered as Dika, is a Ukrainian operatic soprano.
Pedro Ipuche Riva was an Uruguayan composer of classical music. According to the catalogue by the Uruguayan musicologist Elsa Sabatés in Músicos de aquí, Vol 4 he wrote 150 compositions, including 6 symphonies and 2 operas.
Sigutė Stonytė is a Lithuanian soprano and professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Veronika Dzhioeva is a South Ossetian operatic soprano singer.
Edith WiensOC is a Canadian opera, recital and concert singer with a soprano voice.
Fidan Hajiaga qizi Hajiyeva/Naylor, Azerbaijan opera singer, People's Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan, mezzo-soprano, Soloist of the Azerbaijan National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Sara Briški Cirman, better known by her stage name Raiven, is a Slovenian mezzo-soprano, pop singer, songwriter, and harpist. She first garnered wide recognition while competing to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest for Slovenia during the national final Evrovizijska Melodija (EMA) in 2016 with the song Črno bel, where she placed second. Raiven went on to return to EMA in 2017, placing third with the song Zažarim, and has competed again in 2019 with the song KAOS, placing second.
Mayra Muhammad-kyzy, is a Kazakh opera singer. She was the first Kazakh at the Parisian Grand Opera. She is a Honored Artist of the Republic.
Lise Davidsen is a Norwegian opera singer, known as a lyric dramatic soprano. She came to prominence after winning the Operalia competition in London in 2015.
Heidi Stober is an American operatic soprano who has performed leading roles in major opera houses internationally, including the Dutch National Opera, the Garsington Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, the Municipal Theatre of Santiago, the Semperoper, and the Vienna State Opera. She has been particularly active with the Houston Grand Opera where she has performed in more than a dozen operas since 2004, including the world premieres of Daniel Catán's Salsipuedes: a Tale of Love, War and Anchovies (2004), Mark Adamo's Lysistrata (2005), and Ricky Ian Gordon's The House without a Christmas Tree (2017). She has also performed in more than ten operas with the San Francisco Opera since 2010. Since 2008 she has been a resident artist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin where she has primarily performed roles from the lyric soprano repertoire. Also active as a concert soprano on the international stage, she has performed with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest among other orchestras. She is particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Mary Movsisyan is an Armenian operatic soprano, soloist at the Armenian National Opera and worldwide.
Sofía Rosado is an Ecuadorian lyrical soprano, pianist, cellist, and harpist. Her style is oriented to classical music, the Ecuadorian music and the Andean sanjuanito. She is the daughter of the composer and writer Sebastián Rosado.
Natasha Te Rupe Wilson is a New Zealand soprano opera singer of Māori and Pākehā heritage.
Elena Manistina is a Russian operatic mezzo-soprano. She is a member of the Bolshoi Theatre and has appeared in many operas internationally. She also appeared as Verdi's Azucena at the Metropolitan Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Opéra Bastille, and as Amneris at the Arena di Verona.