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Greta Damrau

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I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) Renowned opera singer Greta Damrau presents a dramatic cabaret, “A World of My Own”, conceived by Billboard producer Peter McLean, featuring The Misha Piatigorsky Trio. Greta explores an exciting fusion of jazz standards and pop in a bold and entertaining musical adventure with stunning arrangements by jazz virtuoso Misha Piatigorsky.
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Greta Damrau was educated at New York University and University of Wisconsin. At age 19, she was appointed to the faculty of the Wisconsin Idea Theater. After studies in New York, she moved to Germany to gain stage experience and build operatic repertoire. She possessed a large, warm instrument and was equally at home in both Italian and German opera.
The rich quality of her sound coupled with an exciting temperament made her soprano voice ideal for Italian heroines, while the power and size of her voice allowed her to sing German repertoire.
Greta's roles included… Verdi: Aïda, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Desdemona in Otello, Leonore in La forza del destino; Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Turandot; Giordano: Maddalena di Coigny in Andrea Chénier; Wagner: Elsa in Lohengrin, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Sieglinde in Die Walküre. Ms. Damrau appeared with Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Oper der Stadt Köln and Oper der Stadt Bonn; she also appeared in Hamburg, Paris, Brussels, Zürich, Madrid, Milan, Chicago and Philadelphia; in concert with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Nova Filarmonia Portuguesa and Orchestre National de Lyon. Festival appearances included Autumn and Saint-Céré Festivals in Paris, Wolf Trap and Ravinia. She debuted in New York as Jocasta opposite the Oedipus of Anthony Burgess in Silverman’s King Oedipus and performed Shostakovich’s Romance Suite with the Marlboro and Chadamin Piano Trios. Television and radio credits included Magda (Menotti’s The Consul) and Valentine (Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots).
Ms. Damrau traveled to Japan three times, giving concerts and master classes. In 2005, two of her students took first and second prizes in Japan’s premier vocal contest.
Opera Audio Selections
Act II scena including “Vissi d’arte" from Puccini’s Tosca
“Ritorna vincitor” from Verdi’s Aïda
“La mamma morta” from Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
“Sola, perduta, abbandonata” from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut

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Member Since: 25/07/2007
Band Members: Misha Piatigorsky
( Pianist / Musical Director )
Winner of the 2004 BMI Thelonious Monk Composers Competition at Lincoln Center
Misha Piatigorsky was born in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1981. Educated at Rutgers University and Manhattan School of Music, he is one of the most innovative pianists and composers on today’s music scene, performing at such New York venues as Birdland, Iridium, and Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club. His CD, “Uncommon Circumstance”, was released in 2007, while his compositions can be heard on the movie soundtracks of Chaos Theory, Pretty Persuasion, RX and Danika.
Peter McLean
( Director )
Director and Billboard music producer.
Peter McLean, formerly head tutor at the Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts (1996-1999), arrived in New York in 1999 from Sydney to further his directing career. His first New York production was the very successful premiere of Barry Lowe’s Homme Fatale – The Joey Stefano Story. He then went on to direct the New York premiere of Australian Michael Gow’s Sweet Phoebe. Peter also directed a staged reading of Perry Brass’ The Harvest, adapted from his Lambada Literary Award Finalist novel, and the popular Death of the Piones, also by Perry Brass, for The National Arts Center. Peter recently directed the premiere of Robert W. Cabell’s, I, Sarah…The Divine starring Louise Martin.
As an actor, in Australia, Peter starred as Bernardo in West Side Story, and other plays include The Real Inspector Hound, The Wiz and Grease. Peter has also been featured in various films including the AFI award–winning Two Hands with Bryan Brown and Thank God He Met Lizzie with Kate Blanchett.
Influences: My Mother. Aunt Ann and Aunt Helen Great Singers especially Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan. Being in Europe and Japan. History of all kinds. Writers... Shakespeare, Alistair Horne, Langston Hughes. Other People… John Glenn Paton (teacher) Georg Solti (conductor) Frances Wilson (teacher) Peter McLean (director).
Record Label: D1 Music
Type of Label: Indie

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