Norma Sharp

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Norma Sharp
Born (1943-07-20) July 20, 1943 (age 80)
Education
Occupations
  • Operatic soprano
  • Academic voice teacher
Organizations

Norma Sharp (born July 20, 1943)

Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"
from 1992.

Career

Sharp was born in

Musikhochschule Köln with Peter Witsch.[3] She was a member of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.[4] Her voice, termed lyric and "jugendlich-dramatisch" (spinto), led to preferred interpretation of roles in operas by Mozart and Richard Strauss.[5]

She appeared in London at

Le nozze di Figaro at her debut at La Scala in Milan.[4]

Sharp performed at the

Rhine Maiden Woglinde in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, and Waldvogel (Voice of a forest bird) in Siegfried, also in the version filmed in 1980.[4] In Parsifal, she sang one of the flower maidens.[4]

In recital, she is focused on German romantic and contemporary Lieder, accompanied by pianists such as Irwin Gage, Wilhelm von Grunelius and Wolfram Rieger.[5]

From 1992 she has been a professor of voice at the

Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin.[5]

Selected recordings

Sharp appeared in her Bayreuth performances on film – the Ring cycle filmed in 1980 and Parsifal in 1982. She sang Waldvogel and Gutrune in the 1983 Ring digital recording with Marek Janowski conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden, with Theo Adam as Wotan, Jessye Norman as Sieglinde, Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegmund, and René Kollo as Siegfried.[6]

References

  1. ^ "20.7. Norma Sharp wird 70" (in German). Der neue Merker. Archived from the original on July 5, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  2. ^ .
  3. ^ "Norma Sharp" (in German). Theater der Zeit. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d "Norma Sharp" (in German). Bayreuth Festival. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  5. ^
    Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". Archived from the original
    on March 9, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  6. ^ Levine, Robert. "Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen/Janowski". classicstoday. Retrieved March 26, 2014.

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