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Martha Lipton (April 6, 1913 – November 28, 2006) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano.[1]
Biography
Lipton was born in New York City. She won a scholarship to the Juilliard School and made her debut as Pauline in Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades for the New Opera Company in Manhattan in 1941.[1] After making her first appearance with the New York City Opera in 1944, she went on to appear 401 times at the Metropolitan Opera.[2][3]
Lipton also sang in Europe. She sang the title role in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia for the English Opera Group in 1954, and in 1956 starred as Augusta in the world premiere of Douglas Moore's seminal opera The Ballad of Baby Doe at the Central City Opera House in Colorado.[1]
She was professor emeritus at Indiana University's School of Music, whose voice faculty she joined in 1960.[4]
Lipton died in Bloomington, Indiana on November 28, 2006. She was 93.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Schweitzer, Vivien (11 December 2006). "Mezzo-Soprano Martha Lipton Dies at 93". Playbill Arts. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
Martha Lipton, a mezzo-soprano who sang frequently at the Metropolitan Opera during the 1940s and '50s, died at age 93 on November 28, reports Opera News. Lipton was born in 1913 in New York City and won a scholarship to Juilliard. She made her debut in 1941 as Pauline in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades with Manhattan's now-defunct New Opera Company.
- ^ "Martha Lipton". Allmusic. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
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. ...
- ^ "A list of every performer (singer, dancer, or conductor) with one hundred performances or more". New York City: Metropolitan Opera. 23 June 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ^ (March 2007). "Obituaries: Martha Lipton", Opera News 71 (9): 80–81. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
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