Word: degaetani
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artists program named Dawn Upshaw. The audience cheered, and the critics raved about Upshaw's charm and freshness; she seemed set for a predictable rise in the soubrette roles of grand opera. But Upshaw had ideas of her own. A few years earlier, one of her voice teachers, Jan DeGaetani, had told her to "seek your own path." Upshaw took that advice. From Mozart to Stravinsky to show tunes, she sings a far wider range of music than is typical for an international star, yet at 34 she has risen faster and further than any other American singer...
BERLIOZ: LES NUITS D'ETE; MAHLER: SONGS (Bridge). The great mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani's last recording renders almost palpable the feelings of yearning and fleeting gaiety, along with the elegiac beauty, that make these songs, and her art, imperishable...