Martha Lipton
Martha Lipton had a major American operatic career as a mezzo-soprano and alto, appearing nearly 300 times at the Metropolitan Opera House between 1944 and 1961.
She studied at the Juilliard, where she debuted as Pauline in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades in 1941. She first sang with the New York City Opera in 1944 as Nancy in Flotow's Martha, and in the same year at the Met as Siebel in Gounod's Faust.
She was frequently heard on Metropolitan Opera Saturday broadcasts, and several of those have been released in restored sonics on the Naxos Historical label (generally not available in the United States).
She also recorded for Columbia Records. One of her best known performances was the classic Handel Messiah recording with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and she appeared in Leonard Bernstein's first recording of Mahler's Third Symphony, one of the first stereo tapings of that work. Another classic recording in which she appeared was the Fritz Reiner-led recording of Verdi's Falstaff, and she also sang the monaural recording of Copland's Emily Dickinson Songs and in his opera The Second Hurricane.
Notable premieres in which Lipton participated include the first American performance of Hugo Wolf's Der Corregidor in a concert realization in New York, and she created the role of Augusta in Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe at the Central City Opera House, Central City, Colorado, on July 7, 1956, repeating the performance the following April with the New York City Opera.
Lipton also appeared in Europe, particularly in Paris and Vienna. Since 19690 she has been a Professor of Singing at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where, faculty rosters indicate, she teaches part-time.
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Discography
8 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: Götterdämmerung & Wesendonck Lieder
New York Philharmonic, Martha Lipton, Eileen Farrell, Leonard Bernstein, Boys' Choir of the Little Church Around the Corner, New York Schola Cantorum Women's Chorus
Classical - Released by Urania Records on 14 Oct 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wagner, Verdi, Brahms & Monteverdi: Parsifal-Te Deum - Alto Rhapsody - Magnificat
Martha Lipton, John Finlay Williamson, Guido Cantelli, Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic
Classical - Released by Infinity on 20 May 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Alto Rhapsody & Tragic Overture
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Martha Lipton, Guido Cantelli, Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on 1 Nov 1988
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Monteverdi, Wagner, Verdi & Brahms: Madrigals & Parsifal-Te Deum - Alto Rhapsody - Magnificat
Martha Lipton, John Finlay Williamson, Nadia Boulanger Ensemble, Westminster Choir
Classical - Released by ArnebAudio on 3 Oct 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Fickle Fate
Bossa Nova - Released by Martha Lipton on 1 Jan 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Beethoven · The 9 Simphonies, vol. V
Frances Yeed, Martha Lipton, David Lloyd, Mack Harrell, Bruno Walter, New York Philharmonic
Classical - Released by G.O.P. on 29 Oct 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Copland: Modern Vocal Premieres - Old American Songs, Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson - Warfield, Lipton, and Copland
Aaron Copland, William Warfield, Martha Lipton
Classical - Released by Soundmark on 1 Oct 1951
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo