Lucine Amara

Lucine Amara

Lucine Amara (born March 1, 1927) is an American soprano, a versatile singer with a fine voice, largely based at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

Biography

Amara was born, Lucine Armaganian, in Hartford, Connecticut, of Armenian heritage, before moving to San Francisco where she was raised.She studied at the San Francisco's Community Music School under Stella Eisner-Eyn and sang in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera, 1945-46. In 1946, Amara made her concert debut at the War Memorial Opera House. Continuing her studies at the Music Academy of the West with Richard Bonelli in 1947, she won a contest to appear at the Hollywood Bowl in 1948. She continued as a student at the University of Southern California and as a soloist for the San Francisco Symphony for the following two years. Amara appeared in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos and as Lady Billows in Britten’s Albert Herring in 1949.

Amara made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the "Voice from Heaven" in Verdi's "Don Carlos", the opening night of Sir Rudolf Bing's inaugural season as general manager, on November 6, 1950. She continued at the Met for 41 consecutive seasons until 1991, singing 56 roles in 882 appearances, more than 60 of which were broadcast on radio and television. Appearing regularly as Micaëla in "Carmen", Cio-Cio-San in "Madame Butterfly", and Tatiana in "Eugene Onegin", Antonia in "Les contes d'Hoffmann", Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni", Nedda in "Pagliacci", Mimi in "La bohème", her repertoire also included Leonora in "Il trovatore" and "Aida". Amara also performed in Europe, Asia, and South America, including at Glyndebourne (1954–55, 1957–58), the Edinburgh Festival (1954), the Vienna State Opera (1961), Russia (1965), and China (1983.)

Amara made a few recordings, notably as Musetta in "La bohème", opposite Victoria de los Angeles, Jussi Bjorling, Robert Merrill under Thomas Beecham, as Elsa in "Lohengrin", opposite
Sandor Konya, Rita Gorr, Jerome Hines, under Erich Leinsdorf, she also recorded the role of Nedda in "Pagliacci" twice, opposite Richard Tucker in 1951, and opposite Franco Corelli in 1960.

After retiring, Amara became the artistic director of the New Jersey Association of Verismo and taught master classes in the United States, Canada and Mexico. On January 23, 2005, she performed as a special guest artist with the Musica Bella Orchestra. The Times called Amara "the greatest lyric soprano of our time." "Time Magazine" wrote that "she brought to the stage the kind of dazzling vocal splendor that made the Met famous. In 1989 she was inducted into the Academy of Vocal Arts Hall of Fame.

Filmography

* Carmen (1952) (TV), Frasquita
* The Great Caruso, (1951)

Sources

* The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton ISBN 0-671-61732-X
* www.allmusic.com, Erik Eriksson
* www.naxos.com
* Musica Bella Biographies / www.webcitation.org


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