From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frances Ginsberg
Frances Ginsberg
Italian Straw Hat.[4] Her first major success came in 1986
when she made her debut at the New York City Opera
(NYCO) in the dual roles of Margherita and Elena in Arri-
go Boito’s Mefistofele. She subsequently appeared with the
NYCO as Donna Elvira in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don
Giovanni, Mimì in Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, and Vio-
letta in Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata. In 1990 she made her
debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Rosalinde in Johann
Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus.[1]
Other US companies Ginsberg performed with during
her career were Cincinnati Opera, Fort Worth Opera,
Houston Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, San Diego
Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Utah Opera, and the Washington
National Opera. On the international stage she made ap-
pearances with the Opéra de Nice, the Opéra Royal de
Wallonie, the New Israeli Opera, the Teatro Calderón in
Madrid, the Scottish Opera, and the Welsh National
Opera.[1] Some of the other roles she performed on stage
were Abigaille in Nabucco, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera,
Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Desdemona in Otello,
Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Elvira in Ernani, Lady Mac-
beth in Macbeth, Leonora in Il trovatore, Leonora in La
forza del destino, Magda in La Rondine, Nedda in Pagliacci,
and the title heroines in Aida, Manon Lescaut, Norma and
Frances Ginsberg
Tosca.[2]
Ginsberg died in 2010 at the age of 55 in Riverdale,
Frances Ginsberg (March 11, 1955 – December 24,
New York. She abandoned her career in 2007 after having
2010) was an American opera singer. Opera News maga-
been diagnosed with the disease. The cause was brain and
zine described her as "a lirico-spinto soprano of striking
spinal cancer according to a longtime friend. Ginsberg
temperament whose vivid style made her an audience fa-
had previously also been treated for breast and ovarian
vorite at New York City Opera and other U.S. companies
cancer.[2]
in the 1980s and 1990s."[1] She particularly excelled in
the operas of Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi.[2]
References
Life and career [1] ^ "Frances Ginsberg, 55, Soprano of Striking
Temperament, Has Died". Opera News. December 27,
Ginsberg was born to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri
2010. http://www.operanews.com/operanews/
in 1955.[3] In 1973 she graduated from Ladue Horton
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Watkins High School in Ladue, Missouri, and in 1979 she
[2] ^ Margalit Fox (December 28, 2010). "Frances
graduated from the University of Kansas with fine arts
Ginsberg, American Soprano, Dies at 55". The New
degrees in theatre and voice. She then pursued further
York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/
studies at the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Center for Amer-
arts/music/
ican Artists. She later studied opera privately with Carlo
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Bergonzi, Renata Tebaldi and Eve Queler.[2] She was also
[3] "Décès de Frances Ginsberg". www.forumopera.com.
a pupil for many years of conductor Marco Munari of La
December 2010. http://www.forumopera.com/
Scala with whom she studied while she was living in Mi-
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lan.
[4] "Frances Ginsberg". Santa Fe Opera Archives.
While still a college student, Ginsberg made her pro-
http://www.santafeopera.org/thecompany/
fessional opera debut in 1977 at the Santa Fe Opera as the
overview/
milliner in the United States premiere of Nino Rota’s The
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Date of birth 11 March 1955
Retrieved January 12, 2011.
Place of birth St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Persondata
Date of death 24 December 2010
Name Ginsberg, Frances
Place of death Riverdale, New York, U.S.
Alternative names
Short description American opera soprano
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