Latonia Moore
Opera star soprano Latonia Moore was a new discovery for me, and what a beautiful one. Many black opera stars such as Jesse Norman and Marian Anderson started singing in their church choirs before someone noticed their beautiful voices. Latonia started singing in the church where her grandfather was a priest before moving on to jazz and pop. Someone noticed her beautiful voice and convinced her to train for the opera stage. Her delivery is smooth and effortless. She is able to reach the high notes and still maintain control over her soprano voice. As an opera nerd, I am so happy she chose to sing opera. She has a bright future and will certainly be remembered as one of the great black sopranos. I have posted most of her recordings from u-tube. Her bio was taken from Wikipedia.
Latonia Moore (born in Houston) is an American soprano singer.
Hugh Canning said about her Covent Garden debut: "Moore’s creamy, lyric soprano could take her to the top of her profession."
Life
Latonia Moore was born in Houston, Texas. She grew up with black music, and at the age of eight, began to sing in the church choir of the New Sunrise Baptist Church, where her grandfather Cranford Moore worked as a priest.
She studied first gospel and jazz, until one of her teachers at the University of North Texas convinced her to study classical music. This required a major technical change, since for both gospel and jazz, the chest voice is used more in higher pitches, while the high, pure tones of opera singing require mainly head voice. She continued as a student of Bill Schuman at the Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, where she graduated in 2005.
Moore made her debut in 1998 at the Palm Beach Opera in West Palm Beach, and was engaged as a student in the same year at the Houston Ebony Opera. Her repertoire includes Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Lucrezia, Lucrezia Borgia, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, and Tatiana in Eugene Onegin. In the role of Mimi in La Bohème, she appeared at the Dresden Semper Opera, as Micaela in Carmen in Dallas and New York City Opera. As Liù in Turandot, she debuted at London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. She has sung the title role in Aida' at the Hamburg State Opera, at Covent Garden and the Met.
Moore also performs in concert, she is among other things on the German Grammophon recording of Mahler's 2nd Symphony, a 2002 recording from the Vienna Musikverein, conducted by the American multi-millionaire and Mahler enthusiast Gilbert Kaplan.
Her Metropolitan Opera debut, replacing Violetta Urmana at short notice as Aida in a live broadcast, was greeted by tumultuous audience acclaim.
San Diego Opera Podcast: An Interview with Latonia Moore
Here is the english translation for Un bel di from "Madame Butterfly"
One good day, we will see
Arising a strand of smoke
Over the far horizon on the sea
And then the ship appears
And then the ship is white
It enters into the port, it rumbles its salute.
Do you see it? He is coming!
I don't go down to meet him, not I.
I stay upon the edge of the hill
And I wait a long time
but I do not grow weary of the long wait.
And leaving from the crowded city,
A man, a little speck
Climbing the hill.
Who is it? Who is it?
And as he arrives
What will he say? What will he say?
He will call Butterfly from the distance
I without answering
Stay hidden
A little to tease him,
A little as to not die.
At the first meeting,
And then a little troubled
He will call, he will call
"Little one, dear wife
Blossom of orange"
The names he called me at his last coming.
All this will happen,
I promise you this
Hold back your fears -
I with secure faith wait for him.
AVA 75th Latonia Moore - Un bel di
AVA 75th Latonia Moore - La mamma morta
O patria mia...Latonia Moore Debut in Aida at the Metropolitan Opera
VYO 2012-2013 Winter Concert
Latonia Moore on premiering at the Metropolitan Opera as Aida
Latonia Moore, "Ritorna vincitor" from Verdi's Aida
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess / White • Moore • Rattle • Berliner Philharmoniker
Aida - Graeme Murphy and Latonia Moore - Opera Australia
Latonia Moore - L'Arlesiana, Act II
Latonia Moore - Le Manoir de Rosamonde
Latonia Moore - Addio, mio dolce amor
Latonia Moore - Le Manoir de Rosamonde
Latonia Moore and Lester Lynch in Verdi's Aida
I due Foscari: Tu pur lo sai che giudice (Bilbao)
Latonia Moore et Marcello Giordani - Aida - La fatal pieta - MET 3 mars 2012 .
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