Dawn Upshaw

Dawn Upshaw

Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contemporary. Many composers, including Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams, and Kaija Saariaho, have written for her. In 2007, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Dawn Upshaw was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She began singing while attending Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois and was the only female ever promoted to the top choir (the Singing Rockets) as a sophomore, according to choir director Douglas Ulreich. She received a B.A. in 1982 from Illinois Wesleyan University, where she studied voice with Dr. David Nott. She went on to study voice with Ellen Faull at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, earning her M.M. in 1984. She also attended courses given by Jan DeGaetani at the Aspen Music School. She was a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions (1984) and the Walter M. Naumburg Competition (1985), and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Development Program. Since her start in 1984, Upshaw has made more than 300 appearances at the Metropolitan Opera. Upshaw came to international fame with her performance on the million-selling recording (1992), with David Zinman, of Symphony No 3 by Henryk Górecki, known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Symfonia pieśni żałosnych). She has premiered more than twenty-five new works, notably Henri Dutilleux's song-cycle Correspondances, and has embraced several pieces created for her, including the Grawemeyer Award-winning opera L'Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho, The Great Gatsby by John Harbison, the nativity oratorio El Niño by John Adams, and Osvaldo Golijov's highly acclaimed chamber opera Ainadamar and song cycle Ayre. In 2009, she premiered David Bruce's song cycle The North Wind was a Woman at the gala opening of the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Centre's season. In addition to her operatic recordings, she has also sung the title role in the first complete recording of the score of Gershwin's Oh, Kay!. She has also recorded albums of songs by Vernon Duke and Rodgers and Hart. Upshaw was a guest of President of the United States Bill Clinton and Mrs. Clinton on the NBC special Christmas in Washington. The BBC presented a prime-time telecast of her 1996 London Proms Concert, Dawn at Dusk, in which she performed songs from American musical theater. Her engagements with James Levine over many years led to a 1997 recording of Claude Debussy songs. Upshaw appears on an album of Christmas music in association with the male vocal ensemble Chanticleer titled Christmas with Chanticleer featuring special guest Dawn Upshaw for Teldec Classics. ... Source: Article "Dawn Upshaw" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Dawn Upshaw
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  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1960-07-17
  • Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Dawn Upshaw Movies

  • 1992
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    Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress

    Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress

    1 1992 HD

    The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and...

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  • 1990
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    Don Giovanni

    Don Giovanni

    6.2 1990 HD

    Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who brings excitement with him and leaves...

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  • 1996
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    Theodora

    Theodora

    10 1996 HD

    The Peter Sellars production of Handel's "Theodora", recorded live at the Glyndebourne Festival in May 1996. Dawn Upshaw stars as Theodora, with...

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  • 1992
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    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen

    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen

    1 1992 HD

    In 1992, Olivier Messiaen's epic opera "Saint François d'Assise" was brought to the Salzburg Festival in a staging by Peter Sellars. The...

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  • 1984
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    Simon Boccanegra

    Simon Boccanegra

    1 1984 HD

    Live from the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Boccanegra

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  • 1990
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    Siegfried

    Siegfried

    7.5 1990 HD

    Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner.

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  • 2004
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    Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin

    Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin

    1 2004 HD

    This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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  • 2000
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    John Adams: El Niño

    John Adams: El Niño

    1 2000 HD

    Headlined by Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Willard White and orchestrated by the Berlin German Symphony Orchestra, this Nativity oratorio...

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  • 1996
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    The Rake’s Progress

    The Rake’s Progress

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1988
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    Ariadne auf Naxos

    Ariadne auf Naxos

    1 1988 HD

    Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James...

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  • 2005
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    The Greatest Game Ever Played

    The Greatest Game Ever Played

    7.297 2005 HD

    A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.

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  • 1987
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    Le monde est à vous

    Le monde est à vous

    1 1987 HD

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