R.I.P 〓 Marcella Reale（84）American Soprano singer

2021/01/29
【最終更新日】2024/01/30

American soprano singer Marcella Reale died on the 17th after being infected with the new coronavirus. She was 84 years old. She has been active in famous opera houses around the world and sang not only in the West but also in South America and Australia during the golden age of her opera.

She settled in Japan from 1994 to 2017 until she returned to the United States, and while she was the coordinator of the New National Theatre Tokyo, she taught at various music colleges.

She was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are Italian and she studied under Armand Tokatyan and Lotte Lehmann at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich on a Fulbright scholarship.

She made her debut in the opera world at the Heidelberg State Theater in 1957. She is the first American to win the “Golden Puccini Award” in 1970, and is good at Puccini and Verismo operas, with Madama Butterfly and Tosca singing more than 300 times.

During her long career, she has performed with Mario Del Monaco, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, José Carreras, Tito Gobbi, Alfredo Kraus and John Vickers. She won the “Mario Del Monaco Award” in 1991.

Photo：Seattle Opera





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