Florence Quivar
Florence Quivar is one of the most prominent American mezzos of her generation and has appeared all over the world in concerts and recitals, winning consistent praise for her musicality and expressiveness. Though her oratorio performances are less frequent, she has enjoyed notable success in that field. And although she has been far less active in the world of staged opera, she has appeared at most of the major opera houses of the world, performing coloratura as well as dramatic mezzo-soprano roles, though most of her performances are in lyric mezzo roles. She has also been particularly active in championing new music, appearing in the world premieres of works by Anthony Davis (The Goddess of the Waters in his opera Amistad at the Lyric Opera of Chicago) in 1999 and William Bolcom (in his song cycle From the Diary of Sally Hemmings at the Library of Congress) in 2001. Her interest in music started early; her mother was a piano teacher who taught voice and who also formed the gospel group the Harmonic Choraliers. Quivar herself made her singing debut at the age of six in a church performance. She became fascinated when she saw Madama Butterfly when the Met company tour performed in Philadelphia, though practical matters made her plan to be an elementary school teacher and enrolled in a teachers' college. Realizing that her true love was really music after just one day of classes, she joined the Philadelphia Academy of Music. After graduating, she briefly enrolled in Juilliard, where she made her stage debut in 1975 as the witch Jezibaba and the Foreign Princess in Dvorák's Rusalka. Not feeling ready to establish herself in New York, she returned to Philadelphia, where she taught and sang recitals with the Franklin Concert Series. Inspired by master classes with Maureen Forrester, Quivar became deeply interested in lieder, as well as oratorio. Returning to New York, she won the Marian Anderson Award, and after drawing the attention of noted impresario Harold Shaw, she began to appear with orchestras all over the United States. She made her Met debut in 1977 as Marina in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the house at which she has sung the most stage performances.
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Discographie
6 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette; Symphonie funèbre et triomphale
Charles Dutoit, Florence Quivar, Alberto Cupido, Tom Krause, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 sept. 1986
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Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat, Homenajes & Interlude and Spanish Dance from La vida breve
Jesús López-Cobos, Florence Quivar, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Telarc le 1 janv. 1987
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Sharon Sweet, Florence Quivar, Vinson Cole, Simon Estes, Berliner Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 oct. 1989
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Schubert: Rosamunde
Judith Blegen, Florence Quivar, James Levine, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO)
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 1985
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Anthony Davis: Amistad
Mark Baker, Mark S. Doss, Thomas Young, Stephen West, Florence Quivar
Classique - Paru chez New World Records le 1 janv. 2008
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Ride on King Jesus - Florence Quivar sings black music of America
Classique - Paru chez EMI Classics le 1 janv. 1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo