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Alexandra Deshorties (born 1975) is a French-Canadian soprano who sings principally opera. She was born in Canada and raised in Marseille, France, where she attended the Conservatory and "where she earned a gold medal/first prize for her performance in vocal juries."〔( Artist's Biography ) on robert-gilder.com〕 She continued her education at the Manhattan School of Music. A winner of the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions (and a participant in the National Council Winners Concert on 2 March 1997)〔 at 21, she entered the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist program the following season〔(Deshorties' profile on Welsh National Opera website ) on wno.org.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2013〕 and made her debut with the company as the High Priestess in ''Aida'' on 30 October 1999.〔(Met Opera Archives ) on archives.metoperafamily.org. Retrieved 11 November 2013〕 She has since appeared in a large number of roles both with the Met (where she sang Elettra (''Idomeneo''), Konstanze (''Die Entführung aus dem Serail''), The Countess (''The Marriage of Figaro''), and Fiordiligi (''Così fan tutte'')〔 and with other companies throughout the world. ==Principal roles and opera companies== For the Dallas Opera, she has sung the roles of Desdemona in ''Otello'' in October 2009〔Anthony Tommasini, ("Verdi’s Moor, Edgy in Cyprus or Dallas" ) (Review of the Dallas production with Deshorties), ''New York Times'', 25 October 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2013〕 as well as that of Juliana Bordereau in Argento's ''The Aspern Papers'' in April 2013.〔Anne Midgette, ("Dallas Opera rescues a work from undeserved obscurity" ) ''The Washington Post'', 19 April 2013〕 As Fiordiligi and as Cleopatra in ''Giulio Cesare'', she appeared at the Seattle Opera.〔 Other roles include the First Lady (''Die Zauberflöte''); Anna (''Nabucco''); Musetta (''La bohème''); Echo (''Ariadne auf Naxos''); Tytania (''A Midsummer Night's Dream''); Elizabeth I of England (''Roberto Devereux'') for Welsh National Opera in October/November 2013 Deshorties has appeared at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, France; the Salzburg Festival; the San Francisco Opera; the Houston Grand Opera; the Brooklyn Academy of Music; the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; the A Coruña Festival, Spain; the Gstaad Festival. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexandra Deshorties」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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