Another Career Hampered by Weight Problems
Puccini’s opera Il Tabarro boasts a dreamy setting: a houseboat on the Seine, where the characters sing Puccini’s rich, soaring lines. Yeah, OK, they die or have terrible lives, but they get to sing fabulous music. Those characters, of course, are the soprano, tenor,...
Death Gigs; or, A Tale of Two Funerals
Like most singers, I’ve occasionally been called upon to sing for the dead. When I first moved to NYC as a young singer, I found a job as the contralto soloist at Saint Vincent Ferrer Church on the Upper East Side, known as “Our Lady of the Cadillacs.” Shortly after,...
Beethoven in Colombia
A few years ago, I found myself in Colombia, where I was the mezzo-soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Among the notes I took while there: The orchestra management, mercifully, placed the soloists in the 5-star Hotel Intercontinental, whose atmosphere...
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Mezzo-soprano Janice Meyerson has triumphed in opera houses and concert halls on five continents, bringing her rich tone and dramatic characterizations to a wide-ranging repertoire. Since her professional debut as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein, she has appeared as soloist with many of the finest symphony orchestras.