Joan Wall
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Joan Boyd Wall (born in Baton Rouge) is a retired American operatic mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. In 1957 she was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She was a principal performer at the Metropolitan Opera, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and in Amsterdam, Boston, Philadelphia, Fort Worth and other US cities. Wall was the coordinator of vocal studies at Texas Woman's University for many years. She was appointed Professor Emerita in 2008 following a teaching career of 44 years at TWU.[1]
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[edit] Roles
Joan Wall has performed many roles including:
- Preziosilla in La forza del destino
- Carmen in Carmen
- Dorabella in Così fan tutte
- Suzuki in Madame Butterfly
- Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro
- Augusta in The Ballad of Baby Doe
- Nicklaus in The Tales of Hoffmann
- Fyodor in Boris Godunov
[edit] Academic education
- 1956 – Bachelor of Music, Louisiana State University[2][3]
[edit] Family
- Joan Wall is married to Mark Wall.[4] Her father, a Methodist minister, died when she was nine. Her mother, who sang in the church choir and was the first violinist to graduate from Louisiana State University, remarried Julian C. Hayes, an oil company executive.[5]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
General references
- Fite, Tom, "Mezzo Draws Acclaim In Victoria Concert", The Victoria Advocate, 26 March 1968, p. 1
- Metropolitan Opera, Performance record: Wall, Joan (Mezzo Soprano) on the MetOpera Database
- Sandved, Kjell Bloch, "Wall, Joan", The world of music, Volume 4, Abradale Press, 1963, p. 1457
- Texas Woman's University, Joan Wall Biography
Inline citations
- ^ Texas Woman's University
- ^ New TWU Faculty, Administrators Introduced at Years First Meeting, The Denton Record-Chronicle, Sect. 4, pg. 5, Sept 13, 1964
- ^ Mezzo Soprano in Semi-Finals, The Times-Picayune, pg. 52, March 21, 1957
- ^ Resident Soprano to Sing at TWU, The Denton Record-Chronicle, Sect. 2, pg. 5, Jan 3, 1965
- ^ She'll Sing in Berlin, Dixie Roto Magazine (Sunday insert of the The Times-Picayune), cover story & pg 6, Oct 15, 1961
