| 词条 | Kallen Esperian |
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Kallen Esperian, born in Barrington, Illinois on {{birth date and age|1961|6|8}}, is an Armenian-American lyric soprano. HistoryAfter earning her degree at the University of Illinois, Kallen Esperian won the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition in 1985. She made her debut in Philadelphia as Mimi in La Bohème in 1986 and subsequently appeared in the film, Distant Harmony while in China with Pavarotti. Since then she has sung at most of the world's important opera houses and has specialised in Italian opera and especially in Verdi roles. Esperian has appeared with Pavarotti in his annual concert, Pavarotti Plus, in 1991 at Lincoln Center and in 1995 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. These concerts have been televised and have been released internationally on CD and video. In 1991, she partnered Pavarotti in Verdi's Luisa Miller at the Met and in 1993, she appeared in the Met Gala celebrating the 25th anniversary of Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo at the house. She sang Desdemona to Pavarotti's Otello and Leonora in Il Trovatore with Pavarotti and Domingo both singing Manrico.[1] She also sang Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly in 2004, a role she first performed for the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam in 2002 as well as for New Orleans Opera, Opera Carolina in Charlotte, and the Nashville Opera as well as concerts in Johnstown,{{which|date=January 2019}} Memphis, and Mexico City. In 2004 and 2005 Esperian sang Cio Cio San with the Metropolitan Opera of New York in the fall and winter season's performances of Madama Butterfly. In 2007, Kallen recorded a CD of rock and jazz classics, which includes a cover of "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin.[2] She also recorded vocals for two songs on the album Aristocrunk, with Memphis rappers Lord T & Eloise. World appearancesEsperian has sung at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Desdemona in Otello and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra. She partnered José Carreras in Stiffelio at the Teatro alla Scala, for their first staging of the opera. She played Desdemona opposite Domingo at the Opéra National de Paris; Mimí at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; Liú in Turandot, Desdemona, and Alice Ford in Falstaff for the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Desdemona and Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Verdi's Requiem at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Falstaff for Los Angeles Opera; Aida and Tosca for the Semperoper in Dresden; La Traviata with Opera Memphis, and Norma with both Pittsburgh Opera and Opera Memphis; Manon Lescaut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where she has also been heard as Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera and Elisabetta in Don Carlo, under the baton of Zubin Mehta. She has also sung at the Berlin Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper, Berlin and the Arena di Verona. She has sung the Verdi Requiem with several of the world's great conductors, including Sir Colin Davis, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Robert Shaw, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Oren, Myung-Whun Chung, and David Zinman. The soprano joined the Opera Orchestra of New York as Desdemona at Carnegie Hall for Carlo Bergonzi's first assumption of the role of Otello at age 75.[3] Esperian was one of the Three Sopranos produced by Tibor Rudas Theatrical Productions and a soprano counterpart to the Three Tenors. Esperian is the only one of "The Three Sopranos" to have performed individually with each one of the "Three Tenors" in concerts and in opera houses around the world. In 2011-2012, Esperian held the position of Artist in Residence at the University of Mississippi. Her activities included master classes, classes for voice students and other music students, appearances on campus and off campus, and work with the University of Mississippi Opera Theatre.[4] Esperian received an honorary doctorate degree from Rhodes College in Memphis. She has received numerous awards, including the Dorothy B. Chandler Award, the Mafalda Favero Award, the Arts and Humanities Award from the Germantown Arts Alliance, the Amphion Award from the Memphis Symphony, 2010 Emissary of Memphis Music, and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Memphis. In 2017 Esperian was recipient of the Tennessee Governor's Distinguished Artist Award. Raised in Illinois, Esperian began ballet lessons at the age of three and piano lessons at the age of ten. Although she always loved to sing, and sang in her school’s choruses, she did not begin private voice lessons until after turning sixteen. She attended the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she earned her bachelor of music degree in vocal performance. Having deep Southern roots, Esperian has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since 1982. She has given benefit concerts for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, among others. References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|title=Review/Opera; Tenors in a Friendly Duel Open the Met's Season|first=Edward|last=Rothstein|date=29 September 1993|accessdate=18 April 2017|work=New York Times}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bostonnow.com/entertainment/music/2007/09/20/fromclassicaltoclassics|title=Boston News, Weather and Sports - Massachusetts News - WCVB Channel 5|publisher=|accessdate=18 April 2017}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/3232/index.html|title=La Commedia è Finita|publisher=|accessdate=18 April 2017}} 4. ^{{cite web|author=USA |url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/music/faculty_and_staff/esperian.html |title=Department of Music | The University of Mississippi |publisher=Olemiss.edu |date= |accessdate=2017-04-18}} External links
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