Wanda Brister
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Wanda Brister (born August 12, 1957) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano.
Born in Houma, Louisiana, she has appeared throughout North America and Europe. She matriculated at Loyola University of the South, where she made her unofficial debut, as Maddalena in Act IV of Rigoletto, opposite Anthony Laciura as the Duke of Mantua and Greer Grimsley as Sparafucile, in 1978. Two years later, she sang the Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica at Loyola. She holds degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
The mezzo-soprano served as an apprentice at the New Orleans Opera Association (where she made her professional debut, as Mistress Benson, in Lakmé, in 1981) before attending the Academy of Vocal Arts, where she then was an apprentice with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. She completed a Doctor of Musical Arts at University of Nevada.
Dr Brister studied under Nell Rankin, Beverly Wolff, and Enrico di Giuseppe. She has also appeared with the Opera Orchestra of New York, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Baltimore Opera, Opera Theater of Saint Louis, New York Opera Ensemble, Annapolis Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Theater, Connecticut Grand Opera, New England Lyric Operetta, Jefferson Performing Arts Society, Lyric Opera of Waco, Shreveport Opera, etc, and orchestras in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Louisiana, Florida, Arizona, West Virginia, and New Hampshire.
She has appeared at Carnegie Hall, and has sung under the batons of Krzysztof Penderecki, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Rutter, John Nelson, Philippe Entremont, Arthur Fagen, Chris Nance, Leopold Hager, Gianfranco Masini, and Eve Queler.
From 1986 to 1996, the mezzo-soprano was a member of the quartet, New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, and her recordings appear on the Arabesque, Cambria, and Mark Records labels.
Brister sang her final operatic role, Mistress Benson again, in Lakmé, in 2006, with the Opera Orchestra of New York, twenty-five years after her professional debut in the same part. She continues to appear in recitals and concerts.
As of 2012, Dr Brister is Associate Professor of Voice at Florida State University.