Dawn Upshaw
Birthday
1960/07/17 (64 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Also know as
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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 bega...Read more
Acting
(1992) Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
as Ann
(1990) Don Giovanni
as Zerlina
(1996) Theodora
as Theodora
(1992) Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen
as Self - Soprano
(1984) Simon Boccanegra
as Lady
(1990) Siegfried
as Waldvogel
(2004) Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin
as Clemence
(2000) John Adams: El Niño
as Soprano
(1996) The Rake’s Progress
as Anne Truelove
(1988) Ariadne auf Naxos
as Echo
(2005) The Greatest Game Ever Played
as Soprano
(1987) Le monde est à vous
as Self