Luana DeVol

Luana DeVol (born 1943 in San Mateo, California) is an internationally-recognized operatic soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Ortrud in April 2006 in "Lohengrin" by Richard Wagner. The production was broadcast internationally on April 29, 2006. [Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast]

Biography

Since the mid 1980s DeVol has sung primarily in Europe and has enjoyed success in the German repertoire. [Luana DeVol website] She graduated from Capuchino High School in San Bruno, California, where she grew up, and attended the College of San Mateo in San Mateo, California. She had a featured role in a production of "Patience" by Gilbert & Sullivan, the very first performances by the San Mateo Community Theatre, in the summer of 1963. [Eyewitness account by Robert E. Nylund]

She was a featured soloist with the Masterworks Chorale in San Mateo, under the direction of Galen Marshall, and sang in a great variety of choral works, especially by Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. She proved a versatile, dramatic soprano and also appeared with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Opera. [San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera archives] She moved to Germany in 1984 to further pursue her career, giving numerous operatic performances there. [Luana De Vol website]

DeVol has been featured on recordings released by the Bayer Music Group. [www.bayermusicgroup.de]

Her oldest brother, Gordon De Vol also attended Capuchino, the College of San Mateo, and UCLA; he also appeared in productions of the San Mateo Community Theatre from 1963 to 1966. At UCLA, he won an acting award and appeared in numerous television programs and movies. ["San Bruno Herald"]

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