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Dawn Upshaw

Dawn Upshaw
  • Name: Dawn Upshaw
  • Birthday: 1960-07-17
  • Place of birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
  • Popularity: 0.571
Biography: 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... Read More

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Title Release date
The Greatest Game Ever Played   as  Soprano 2005-09-30
Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin   as  Clemence 2004-12-30
John Adams: El Niño   as  Soprano 2000-12-15
Theodora   as  Theodora 1996-05-29
The Rake’s Progress   as  Anne Truelove 1996-01-01
Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen   as  Self - Soprano 1992-01-01
Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress   as  Ann 1992-01-01
Don Giovanni   as  Zerlina 1990-04-05
Siegfried   as  Waldvogel 1990-02-23
Ariadne auf Naxos   as  Echo 1988-01-01
Simon Boccanegra   as  Lady 1984-12-29