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Beverly Wolff
Beverly Wolff (November 6, 1928 – August 14, 2005) was an American mezzo-soprano who had an active career in concerts and operas from the early 1950s to the early 1980s. She performed a broad repertoire which encompassed operatic and concert works in many languages and from a variety of musical periods. She was a champion of new works, notably premiering compositions by Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and Ned Rorem among other American composers.〔 She also performed in a number of rarely heard baroque operas by George Frideric Handel with the New York City Opera (NYCO), the Handel Society of New York, and at the Kennedy Center Handel Festivals.
Wolff made only a few appearances on the international stage during her career, choosing instead to work with important opera companies and orchestras in the United States. She was particularly active with the NYCO with whom she performed frequently from 1958-1971. ''Opera News'' stated, "Wolff was one of a golden generation of American singers who dominated the NYCO roster during the general directorship of Julius Rudel. Her combination of stylish, intelligent singing and "big brass sound," as she termed it, was a key element in some of the company's most celebrated productions."
== Early life and career ==
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Wolff studied the trumpet in her native city and began her career as a trumpeter with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) while still a teenager. She actively performed with the ASO as both a soloist and a member of the first trumpet section while a student at the University of Georgia, where she earned a degree in English literature in the Spring of 1950.〔Joseph A. Mussulman. ''Dear people ... Robert Shaw: a biography'', Indiana University Press, 1979, pg 196〕 It was while playing with the ASO that Wolff's singing voice was discovered by conductor Henry Sopkin. Sopkin encouraged her to pursue vocal training and she subsequently was selected to study at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia in the Fall of 1950 where she was a pupil of Sidney Dietch and Vera Mclntyre.〔 While a student at AVA, she was discouraged from taking outside auditions, but won an audition to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She sang "Che farò senza Euridice" at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
In 1952, at the age of 23, Wolff received a personal phone call from Leonard Bernstein where she was invited to do the world premiere of a new opera of his at Tanglewood. After these performances, she made her professional opera debut portraying Dinah in a nationally televised broadcast of Leonard Bernstein's ''Trouble in Tahiti'' for the NBC Opera Theatre (NBCOT). She performed only one more time with the NBCOT during her career: the role of The Executive Director in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's ''Labyrinth'' in March 1963. She performed two roles with Boris Goldovsky's New England Opera Theater in 1953: Idamante in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''Idomeneo'' and Mistress Quickley in Giuseppe Verdi's ''Falstaff''.〔"Verdi Work Presented By Goldovsky Company", ''The Christian Science Monitor'', March 2, 1953〕 She then put her opera career on hold in order to start a family.〔 She did, however, perform occasionally in concerts during the mid-1950s; making appearances with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra among others.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beverly Wolff To Be Guest Soloist Friday )〕 Even after returning to opera in 1968, Wolff maintained a measured pace for her professional and personal life; in general, for every two weeks of work, she would spend three weeks at home. In a 1972 ''Opera News'' interview, Wolff stated, "You can't leave a list of performances to posterity. The only future is your children, and rearing them is not a part-time job."〔 Wolff became a teacher in her home in Lakeland, Florida after which she was invited to teach at the Academy of Vocal Arts. She did not leave the academy on good terms, but went on to teach at Florida Southern College where she even served as Provost of the University for a term. Contrary to her quote of the 1970s, she did leave a fine list of performances, recordings, and enthusiastic students as well as two sons for posterity.
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