Deborah Voigt

Deborah Voigt Is One Of The World’s Leading Dramatic Sopranos Internationally Revered In The Operas Of Richard Wagner And Richard Strauss. She Is Also Noted For Her Portrayals Of Such Popular Italian Operatic Parts As Tosca Aida Amelia In Un Ballo In Maschera And Leonora In La Forza Del Destino. An Active Recitalist And Performer Of Broadway Standards Voigt Has An Extensive Discography And Has Given Many Enthusiastically-Received Master Classes. Through Her Performances And Television Appearances She Is Known For The Singular Power And Beauty Of Her Voice As Well As For Her Winning Personality And Stage Presence. Voigt’s 2009-10 Season Begins And Ends With Puccini. She Opens The Lyric Opera Of Chicago Season In The Title Role Of Tosca And Gives Her Role Debut As Minnie In La Fanciulla Del West The Girl Of The Golden West In Her Long-Awaited Return To San Francisco Opera In June. The Early Autumn Sees Voigt In Munich Singing The Daunting Soprano Role In Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder With The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Under Its Music Director Mariss Jansons. Between Her Two Big Puccini Engagements Deborah Voigt Returns To Her Home Company The Metropolitan Opera In Two Of Her Signature Roles – As Chrysothemis In Strauss’s Elektra And Senta In Wagner’s Fliegende Holländer The Flying Dutchman – And To Barcelona’s Gran Teatre Del Liceu In Another Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde. Next Summer She Repeats Her Highly Regarded Salome First At Switzerland’s Verbier Festival Under Conductor Valery Gergiev And Then At Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival With Seiji Ozawa Who Conducted Her Salome Concert Debut With The Boston Symphony At Tanglewood. Last Season Voigt Added Ponchielli’s La Gioconda To The Long List Of Operas She Has Performed At The Met And She Sang Her First Chicago Isolde At Lyric Opera Under Sir Andrew Davis. She Also Sang Amelia In Verdi’s Ballo In Maschera At The Opéra National De Paris And – After Their Huge Success Together At An Earlier Hollywood Bowl Appearance – In A Joint Concert With Barbara Cook At California’s Orange County Performing Arts Center. Three Seasons Ago Voigt Gave Her Role Debut As Maddalena In Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier In Barcelona The Following Season She Returned To Lyric Opera Of Chicago As The Empress In A New Production Of Die Frau Ohne Schatten. Also In The 2007-8 Season She Added Isolde To Her Met Repertoire With One Performance Transmitted Live In HD To Cinemas Worldwide. The New York Times Wrote “She Set The Tone For The Performance With Her Clear Incisive And Intelligent Singing.” She Also Hosted Another Of The Hugely Popular International Transmissions In “The Met Live In HD” Series And Returned To The Royal Opera House Covent Garden As The Prima Donna In Strauss’s Ariadne Auf Naxos. Voigt’s Wide-Ranging Repertoire Also Includes Starring Roles Several Of Which She Has Recorded In Strauss’s Egyptian Helen Der Rosenkavalier And Friedenstag Wagner’s Lohengrin Tannhäuser And Die Walküre And Berlioz’s Troyens. Deborah Voigt’s Two Popular Solo Recordings For EMI Classics Are Both Critical Successes. The Washington Post Praised The “discerning Eye” Behind The Adventurous Choice Of Repertoire For All My Heart With Pianist Brian Zeger And Noted That It Was “performed By A Voice Outstanding Not Only For Tone And Power But For Interpretive Subtlety And Emotional Nuance.” Voigt’s Earlier Disc Obsessions Presents Scenes And Arias From Operas By Wagner And Strauss. Gramophone’sreview Of The Billboard Top-Five Bestseller States “The Arias Highlight Voigt’s Extraordinary Ability To Soar Effortlessly And Luminously Above The Orchestra With Her Trademark Rich Lustrous Never Hard Or Brittle Voice.” Her Recording Of Strauss’s Egyptian Helen Was Also A Billboard Bestseller And Was Named One Of The Best CDs Of The Year By Opera News. A Live Recording Of The 2003 Vienna State Opera Tristan Und Isolde In Which Voigt Made Her Headlining Role Debut Was Released By Deutsche Grammophon. A Devotee Of Broadway And American Song Deborah Voigt Has Given Acclaimed Performances Of Popular Fare Including Benefit Concerts For Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS And New York Theatre Workshop. “Voigt ... Comes To Pop-Singing Naturally. ... If This Were 1970 She Would Probably Be Given Her Own Network Variety Show ” Raved Opera News. She Sang Three Concerts With Barbara Cook And Dianne Reeves At The Hollywood Bowl And Made An Exciting Debut In Lincoln Center’s Long-Running “American Songbook” Series Singing Broadway And Popular Standards. Variety Reported “Deborah Voigt Perhaps The Foremost Dramatic Operatic Soprano Of The Day ... Is Profoundly Aware That Each Song Has A Story To Tell Her Delivery Is Expressively Honest And Her Voice Lustrous And Creamy. ... Voigt Crosses The Opera-Broadway Boundary With Grace And Elegance Harboring A Strength Reserved For Special Moments. She Is Also In The Possession Of A Devilish Sense Of Humor Which Was Delightfully Used To Frame A Lyric With A Naughty Smile.” Millions Of Viewers Heard Voigt Sing “America The Beautiful” On NBC’s Nationwide Broadcast Of Macy’s Independence Day Fireworks Show In 2004 And Later That Year They Witnessed Her Majestic Ride Down Broadway In Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Deborah Voigt Studied At California State University At Fullerton. She Was A Member Of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program And Won Both The Gold Medal In Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition And First Prize At Philadelphia’s Luciano Pavarotti Vocal Competition. Voigt Is A Chevalier Dans L’Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres And Was Musical America’s Vocalist Of The Year 2003. In 2007 She Won An Opera News Award For Distinguished Achievement And In 2009 She Received An Honorary Doctorate From The University Of South Carolina. read less