Deborah Voigt Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Deborah Voigt Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Deborah Voigt (born August 4, 1960) is an American dramatic soprano

who has sung roles in operas by Wagner and Richard Strauss.Debbie Joy

Voigt was born into a religious Southern Baptist family in 1960 and

raised in Wheeling, Illinois, just outside Chicago. At age five, she

joined the choir at a Baptist church and began learning the piano. Her

mother sang and played piano at church while her two younger brothers

sang in rock music bands. Those early experiences in church inspired

her interest in music. When she was 14, her family moved to Placentia

in Orange County, California. It was traumatic for Voigt, then in her

teens, to adjust to Southern California, "land of endless sunshine and

impossibly perfect bodies."She attended El Dorado High School, where

she was a member of El Dorado's Vocal Music and Theater programs,

starring in musicals including Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man and

Mame. At that time, Voigt recalled in an interview, she did not

seriously consider becoming an opera singer and was unaware of the

existence of the Metropolitan Opera. Upon graduation in 1978, she won

a vocal scholarship funded by the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove,

California so that she could enroll in the voice program at California

State University, Fullerton, where she met the voice teacher Jane Paul

Hummel, under whom she trained for about eight years. Voigt was the

finalist of the Met National Council Auditions for Young Singers in

1985. She won awards at many prestigious singing competitions and made

her Carnegie Hall debut in 1988. Named an Adler Fellow, she

apprenticed at San Francisco Opera's Merola Program for two years,

studying seven major roles. There, she also took a class from Leontyne

Price.Voigt slowly but surely established her career, entering the

professional opera world after winning several first prizes at

competitions. Her breakthrough role was Ariadne in Richard Strauss's

Ariadne auf Naxos at Boston Lyric Opera in January 1991. The

performance was praised by noted arts critic John Rockwell in The New

York Times, who called Voigt "one truly remarkable singer" and

predicted that she would soon become an important Wagnerian soprano

comparable to American soprano Eileen Farrell. Ariadne first brought

her to public notice and international success and remains one of her

greatest achievements. Later she often refers to her operatic career

jokingly as Ariadne Inc.
Deborah Voigt Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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