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Rosalind Elias (born March 13, 1929) is an American mezzo-soprano, a rich-voiced singer of fine musicianship who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera. ==Life and career== Rosalind Elias was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the 13th and youngest child of a Lebanese-American family. She received her first 〔https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/47884637/ Lowell Sun May 30, 1975〕〔http://newspaperarchive.com/lowell-sun/1964-02-24/page-25 Lowell Sun February 24, 1964〕 singing lessons in Lowell from Miss Lillian Sullivan. She studied at the New England Conservatory. She appeared with the New England Opera from 1948-52. She then left for Italy to complete her vocal studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with Luigi Ricci and Nazzareno De Angelis.〔''Celebrity Register'' © 1973. Simon and Schuster Publishing: New York; ISBN 978-0-671-21524-8〕 Elias made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Grimgerde in Wagner's ''Die Walküre'', on February 23, 1954. She sang more than 450 performances of some 45 roles there, including Bersi in Giordano's ''Andrea Chénier'', the title role in Bizet's ''Carmen'', Rosina in ''The Barber of Seville'', Laura in ''La Gioconda'', Suzuki in ''Madama Butterfly'', Siebel in ''Faust'', Nancy in ''Martha'', Cherubino and Marcellina in ''The Marriage of Figaro'', Dorabella in ''Così fan tutte'', Octavian in ''Der Rosenkavalier'', Olga in ''Eugene Onegin'', Marina in ''Boris Godunov'', Fenena in ''Nabucco'', Azucena in ''Il trovatore'', Amneris in ''Aida'', Charlotte in ''Werther'', and The Witch in Hansel and Gretel. She created the role of Erika in Samuel Barber's opera ''Vanessa'' on January 15, 1958, and the role of Charmian in ''Antony and Cleopatra'' by the same composer, for the opening of new Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, on September 16, 1966. Elias also performed abroad, notably as ''La Cenerentola'' with Scottish Opera in 1970, as Carmen at the Vienna State Opera in 1972, and as Baba the Turk in Stravinsky's ''The Rake's Progress'' at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1975. She made numerous recordings, including Cherubino in ''The Marriage of Figaro'' under Erich Leinsdorf, Preziosilla in ''La forza del destino'' and Laura in ''La Gioconda'', both opposite Zinka Milanov, Giuseppe Di Stefano and Leonard Warren, Suzuki in ''Madama Butterfly'' twice, first opposite Anna Moffo in 1957, and then opposite Leontyne Price in 1962, Azucena in ''Il trovatore'' opposite Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker, Giorgio Tozzi, as well as Maddalena in ''Rigoletto'', Meg Page in ''Falstaff'' (both under Georg Solti in 1963) and Judith in Bartók's ''Bluebeard's Castle''. She was the mezzo/contralto soloist in concert works like Berlioz's ''Roméo et Juliette'' and the Verdi ''Requiem''. The recording of 'Figaro' under Leinsdorf won a Grammy for Best Classical Performance, Opera Cast or Choral, at the Second Annual Grammy Awards, November 29, 1959. In recent years, Elias has assumed the role of the Old Baroness in ''Vanessa'', first performing the work at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and later at the Los Angeles Opera in 2004 and at the New York City Opera in 2007. Still in lustrous voice, Elias played the role of "Heidi Schiller" in a new revival of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's 1971 musical ''Follies'', which ran at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from May 7, 2011 to June 19, 2011.〔Gans, Andrew. ("Broadway-Bound 'Follies' Plays Final Performance at Kennedy Center June 19" ), Playbill.com, June 19, 2011〕 She made her Broadway debut when the musical transferred to Broadway in a limited engagement from August 2011 through January 22, 2012. 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「Rosalind Elias」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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