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Lisa Hopkins Seegmiller (born 1978), credited as Lisa Hopkins until 2008, is an American classical singer and actress from Simi Valley, California. She holds a B.A. in Theater Studies and Acting from Yale University and a M.M. in Classical Voice from the Manhattan School of Music. She is best known for her portrayal of Mimi in Baz Luhrmann's 2002–03 production of ''La bohème'' on Broadway, for which she received a 2003 Tony Award. Since then, Seegmiller has performed around the United States and Europe in concerts, operas and musical theatre, at venues such as the Estates Theatre in Prague, Wolf Trap in Virginia, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Utah Symphony and Opera, and at several music festivals. She was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for her role in the recording of ''Volpone'' with the Wolftrap Opera Company. ==Early life and training== Seegmiller was born Lisa Hopkins in Simi Valley, California, and grew up all over the United States and Canada, from Los Angeles to Manhattan, North Dakota, Iowa, Missouri and Utah.〔Winn, Steven. ("About the Mimis and Rodolfos", ) ''San Francisco Chronicle'', September 29, 2002〕 Her mother is a Juilliard-trained pianist with whom she continues to collaborate.〔Schulman, Michael. ("Hopkins '01 heads off to Broadway", ) ''Yale Daily News'', February 7, 2003, Retrieved on July 8, 2008〕 She attended the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah〔At the Waterford School, Seegmiller won an Emerson Prize in 1998 for (her essay ) on Thomas Jefferson.〕 and began to study voice at age 16.〔 Seegmiller received her B.A. in Theater Studies and Acting from Yale University in 2001. After her freshman year at Yale, she studied at the Scuola Insieme in Grado, Italy. The following summer she played the role of Polly Peachum in ''The Threepenny Opera'' at the Chautauqua Institution Music Festival.〔(Lisa Hopkins' profile at agent's site )〕 Upon her return to Yale her sophomore year, she founded the Yale College Opera Company, playing Cleopatra in Handel's ''Giulio Cesare'' and performing Poulenc's one-woman opera, ''La Voix Humaine'' for her senior project. She also sang the role of Casilda in ''The Gondoliers'' for Yale's Gilbert and Sullivan Society, among other roles.〔(Lisa Hopkins' profile at the LDS "film personalities" site )〕 Between her junior and senior years at Yale, Seegmiller performed on tour as a soprano soloist in 21 multimedia spiritual concerts in Graz, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, and Vienna, Austria, while serving as a missionary for the LDS Church.〔 She received her M.M. in Classical Voice from the Manhattan School of Music in 2003, where she studied with Marlena Malas. In the summer of 2004, she studied at the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel with Trish McCaffrey. 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「Lisa Hopkins Seegmiller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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