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Tatiana Troyanos
Tatiana Troyanos (September 12, 1938 – August 21, 1993) was an American mezzo-soprano of Greek and German descent, remembered as "one of the defining singers of her generation" (''Boston Globe'').〔Dyer, Richard. Tatiana Troyanos obituary. "Busy Time for Williams." ''The Boston Globe'', August 27, 1993.〕 Her voice, "a paradoxical voice—larger than life yet intensely human, brilliant yet warm, lyric yet dramatic"—"was the kind you recognize after one bar, and never forget," wrote Cori Ellison in ''Opera News''.〔Ellison, Cori. ("Tatiana Troyanos: 1938-1993" ). ''Opera News'', vol. 58, no. 5, November 1993.〕 Troyanos led a distinguished international career and made a variety of admired operatic recordings, and beginning in 1976 was additionally known for her work with the Metropolitan Opera, with over 270 performances spanning twenty-two major roles. "She was extraordinarily intense, beautiful, and stylish in roles as diverse as Eboli, Santuzza, Geschwitz, Venus, Kundry, Jocasta, Carmen, and Giulietta, in addition to her great 'trouser' roles," said the Met's longtime Music Director, James Levine.〔"An Interview with James Levine." Notes for ''Der Rosenkavalier'' in ''James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met'' (DVD set). Decca, 2010.〕
==Early life==
Born in New York City, Troyanos spent her earliest days in the Manhattan neighborhood where Lincoln Center, the new home of the Metropolitan Opera, would arise a quarter century later. She grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and attended Forest Hills High School. Her parents, who had separated when she was an infant and later divorced, were operatic hopefuls who "had beautiful voices"; her father, born on the Greek island of Cephalonia, was a tenor and her mother, from Stuttgart, was a coloratura soprano. Tatiana was looked after by Greek relatives and lived for about ten years at the Brooklyn Home for Children in Forest Hills. She studied piano for seven years, first at the home (where her instructor was veteran Metropolitan Opera bassoonist Louis Pietrini, who had volunteered to teach the children a variety of instruments—initially teaching them solfège, which Troyanos later called "the basis of my musical education"),〔Matheopoulos, Helena. ''Diva: Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art.'' Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991, p. 292.〕 and continuing, on scholarship, at the Brooklyn Music School; in several interviews she recalled early expectations of becoming a concert pianist. "Determined since childhood," by other accounts, "to become an opera singer,"〔Oliver, Myrna. ("Tatiana Troyanos: Versatile Mezzo-Soprano" ). ''Los Angeles Times'', August 24, 1993.〕 she sang in school choirs and New York's All City High School Chorus; when she was sixteen, a teacher heard her voice in the chorus and took time "to find out who the voice belonged to ... and got me to the Juilliard Preparatory School and my first voice teacher."〔Jacobson, Robert. "Getting It Together." ''Opera News'', vol. 47, no. 3, September 1982.〕 (She was initially trained as a contralto, a range she found uncomfortable.) In her late teens, she moved to the Girls' Service League in Manhattan and later to a co-ed boarding house on E. 39th St., not far from the old Met, which she frequently attended as a standee. She was employed as a secretary to the director of publicity of Random House; performed in choruses, ranging from church choirs (with a scholarship at the First Presbyterian Church) to musical theater; and continued at the Juilliard School, where she was chosen as a soloist for Bach's ''St. John Passion'' in 1959〔("Tatiana Troyanos" ), biography in New York Philharmonic Digital Archives, 1967.〕 and the Verdi Requiem in 1962,〔( "Juilliard School of Music presents The Verdi Requiem" ), ''The Juilliard Review'', vol. IX, no. 1, Winter 1961-2, p. 16, accessed January 28, 2015.〕 by which time she had begun vocal studies with (Hans Heinz ), who "understood my voice and helped me open it up at the top ... and gradually I found all my top notes."〔 She described Heinz, with whom she continued to study after her graduation in 1963, as "the major influence in my life ... Our work together built the foundation that was so essential to my career."〔Speck, Gregory. ("Troyanos Talks: A World-Class Prima Donna Discusses Opera Today" ). ''The World and I,'' June 1987, accessed August 24, 2012.〕
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