Name Sondra Radvanovsky Role Soprano | Spouse Duncan Lear | |
Similar People Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Constantine Orbelian, Roberto Alagna, Giuseppe Verdi, Claudio Abbado | ||
Sondra radvanovsky verdi il trovatore d amor sull ali rosee
Sondra Radvanovsky (born April 11, 1969) is an American-Canadian soprano. Specializing in 19th-century Italian opera, Radvanovsky has been called one of the leading Verdi sopranos of her generation. Her signature roles include Elvira in Ernani, Leonora in Il trovatore, Elena in I vespri siciliani, Élisabeth in Don Carlos, and the title role in Norma.
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- Sondra radvanovsky verdi il trovatore d amor sull ali rosee
- Bellini Norma Casta Diva Sondra Radvanovsky
- Early life and studies
- Career
- Personal life
- Awards
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Early life and studies
Radvanovsky was born in Berwyn, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. At age 11, she moved to Richmond, Indiana. She sang her first full-length opera in Richmond at the age of 21. Radvanovsky studied theater and voice at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. She later undertook advanced studies at the Tanglewood Music Center and the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music.
She won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1995 and enrolled in the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. After performances in smaller roles there, Radvanovsky came to attention as Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann and was singled out as a soprano to watch. Her teachers have included Martial Singher, Ruth Falcon, and Diana Soviero.
Career
Radvanovsky has performed in most of the major opera houses in the world, including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and numerous others.
In 2010, she opened the Canadian Opera Company's season in the title role of Verdi's Aida. She has had success in recent years as Leonora, notably in David McVicar's production of Il trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera. In 2011, she hosted the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD, which was broadcast in movie theaters around the world. In addition to her specialty in Verdi heroines, she has also sung the title roles in Suor Angelica, Tosca, Susannah, Rusalka, and Norma, among others.
During the 2014/15 season, Radvanovsky sang the title role of Norma, which she called her "perfect role vocally and temperamentally" in an interview with The New York Times, at the San Francisco Opera. She made her Norma debut at Teatro Campoamor de Oviedo in the 2011/12 season and received critical and popular acclaim in the role during the 2013/14 season at the Metropolitan Opera.
In the Metropolitan Opera's 2015/16 season, Radvanovsky performed all three queens in Donizetti's "Tudor" operas, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Queen Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux, which no one had done before in the company's history.
She opens the Metropolitan Opera's 2017/18 season, as Norma in a new production.
In concert, Radvanovsky has performed Beethoven's Ninth with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rossini's Stabat Mater with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Verdi Requiem with David Zinman and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony.
Tenor Plácido Domingo has been a noted champion of her career.
Personal life
Radvanovsky lives with her husband in a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She acquired Canadian citizenship in 2016.