Maria Ewing, Lady Hall (born March 27, 1950) is an American opera singer who has sung both soprano and mezzo soprano roles. She is noted as much for her acting as her singing.
Ewing was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Dutch mother and an American father of Sioux Native American, Scottish and black ancestry. She studied in Cleveland, Ohio and New York City.
Ewing made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976 in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. H...
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Maria Ewing, Lady Hall (born March 27, 1950) is an American opera singer who has sung both soprano and mezzo soprano roles. She is noted as much for her acting as her singing.
Ewing was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Dutch mother and an American father of Sioux Native American, Scottish and black ancestry. She studied in Cleveland, Ohio and New York City.
Ewing made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976 in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Her first European performance was at La Scala, Milan as Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Her repertoire includes Carmen, Dorabella in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Salome, Marie in Berg's Wozzeck and Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Ewing is particularly well known for her sensitive interpretation of the title role in Richard Strauss's Salome, where Oscar Wilde's stage directions for the original play specify that, at the end of the so-called Dance of the Seven Veils), Salome lie naked at Herod's feet. Ewing appeared fully nude...
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