Mary Mills (soprano)

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Mary Mills
Born
Mary Elizabeth Mills

1964
Shreveport, Louisiana
Alma materUniversity of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Yale University
Occupation(s)Operatic soprano
Voice teacher
SpouseMarkus Gertken (divorced)
Children2

Mary Elizabeth Mills (born 1964) is an American opera singer.

Early life

Mills was born in

Hyer Elementary School, Arch H. McCulloch Middle School, and Highland Park High School, graduating in 1982.[citation needed
]

Mills graduated from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music[citation needed] in 1986 and received a Masters of Music at Yale University in 1988, where she studied with Doris Yarick-Cross.

She has won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Sullivan Role-Study Grant, the Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year Award at Dallas Opera, the Washington Opera Singer of the Year, the Florida Grand Opera Singer of the Year, and the Diva Award from the Opera Company of Philadelphia.

She has collaborated with conductors including

Neemi Järvi, Fabio Luisi, Marc Minkowski, Kirill Petrenko, Markus Poschner and Ulf Schirmer
.

Career

Mills has performed frequently with the

Adler Fellow[1] as the 15-year-old Girl in Lulu and created the role of Cecile de Volanges for their production of the world premiere of The Dangerous Liaisons. At San Francisco Opera
, she has sung in over eighteen productions, including La Bohème, Die Zauberflöte, Carmen, and Arabella, among others.

Mills made her debut as Barbarina in

La Finta Giardiniera, Ilia, and the title roles in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, Carlisle Floyd's Susannah and Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. She has sung the title roles in Rusalka and The Merry Widow, Gilda in Rigoletto and Tatiana in Eugene Onegin
.

Mills made her European debut as Charpentier's Louise in Geneva in 1992, a success that resulted in invitations to the

Opéra de Paris
(Garnier) production of Idomeneo. She also appeared in Monte Carlo and Bilbao in the title role of Manon.

Mills sang her first

Das Fürstenkind
, was released, in which Mills sang the role of Mary Ann.

The International Herald Tribune reported she gave a "vibrant, emotionally fraught performance in the taxing role of Joan.[5]"

Mills lives in Berlin and is divorced from German actor, Markus Gertken [de], with whom she shares two children. She teaches voice in Berlin.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Adler Fellows Alumni". sfopera.com/Home.aspx. San Francisco Opera. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  2. ^ "Theater an der Wien". Theater an der Wien.
  3. ^ "Deutsche Oper Berlin". deutscheoperberlin.de.
  4. ^ "Deutsche Oper Berlin". deutscheoperberlin.de.
  5. ^ 'Joan of Arc' finally is performed in Berlin - International Herald Tribune
  6. ^ Mary Mills | Official Site for Operatic Soprano Mary Mills

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External links

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