Performers Index ~ V

Vaduva, Leontina (Rosille, Romania - )Soprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Vaillant,
Monsegur( - )Sop-P

Vajda, Gergely (GAR geh lee VY day)
( - )Clarinet

Vajda, Jozsef (YOH zef VY day) ( - )bassoon

Vajnar, Frantisek (FRAHN teh shek VY nar) ( - )Czech=con

Valayre, Sylvie (Paris, FR - )Soprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Valdes, Eduardo (Santurce, - )Puerto-Rico=Ten, MET 1994

Valente, Benita (buh NEE tah vuh LEN tee) ( - )

Van Allen, R (28 MAY - )Eng=Bass

Van Asperen, Bob (bohb vuhn AHS puh run) ( - )harpscd-organist

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Van Beinum, Eduard (vuhn BY num)( - )= Con

Van Dam, Jose (25 AUG - )Belgian=Bass-Bar

Van Der Leist (vuhn der LYST) ( - )

Van Der Zwart, Teunis (TOH nihs vuhn der ZVART)( - )

Van Doeselaar, Leo (LAY oh vuhn DOO seh lahr) ( - )

van Keulen, Isabelle (fahn KOO lin) (16 DEC - )
Dutch-V

Van Oortmerssen, Jacques (zhak vuhn ORT mer sen)( - )

Van Remoortel, Edouard (ed wahr vahn ray mor TEL)

Van Ruth, Franz (frahns vuhn ROOT) ( - )

Van Stralen, Esther (vuhn STRAH lin) ( - )violist

Van Waas, Guy (khee vuhn VAHS) ( - )

VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

VANCOUVER (CBC) ORCHESTRA

Vandernoot, Andre (ahn DRAY vuhn der NOTE) ( - )=Con

Vane, Kyra ( -
)Russian-English=Sop

Vaness, Carol (San Diego, 27 JUL 1952 - )Am=Sop, MET 1984

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Vanska, Osmo (OHS moh VAHN skah) ( - )con

Varady, Julia (1 SEP 1941?- )Roumanian=Sop

Varcoe, S (19 MAY - )Eng-Bar

Varga, Laszlo (LAHS loh VAR gah) ( - )cellist

Vargas, Ramon (Mexico City, - )Mexico=Ten, MET 1994

Varjon, Denes (DEH nesh VAHR yohn) ( - )

Varnay, Astrid (VAHR ny) (25 APR 1918 - )=Sop

"Fifty-Five Years in Five Acts: My Life in Opera"



Astrid Varnay
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Varnay's relaxed, conversational memoir covers the American soprano's life from her childhood as the daughter of two opera singers through her own career, which ran from the 1940s to the 1990s and which was closely associated with Wagnerian roles (as well as Beethoven and Strauss). Varnay's unpretentious narrative includes plenty of anecdotes about her colleagues. She vividly conveys what daily life in an opera house is like and offers frank opinions about the practice of contemporary opera production.

Varviso, Silvio (26 FEB 1924 - )Sw-Cond.

Vasary, Tamas (TAH mahs VAH sahr ee)(11 AUG 1973 - )Hung-Swiss=P-Con

Vasquez, Hector (Los Angeles, - )Am=Bar, MET 1995

Vayne, Kyra (Knopmuss) (Petrograd, 1916 - England, 12 JAN 2001)Rus=Sop

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Vegh,
Sandor (SHAN'dor VAYg) (17 MAY 1912 - 4 JAN 1997)Hung=V-Con

Velasquez, Miguel A. ( - )SP=Bar

Venezia e Napoli (vee NETS ee ah aye NAH poh lee)

Vengerov, Maxim (20 AUG - )Rus=V

Yeo, Douglas ( - )Trombone/Boston
SO

Verbruggen,
Marion ( - )

VERDEHR TRIO (Ver DAIR)

Verebics, Ibolya (EE boy ah VEH reh bits) ( - )Hung=Sop

Vermillion, Iris ( - )Sop

Vernon, Richard (Memphis, - )Am=Bass, MET 1981

Veronezh (Vuh-ROH-n(y)esh) Trio

Verrett, Shirley (31 MAY - )Am=MezSoprano

VERSAILLES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (vir SY)Fr

Versalle, Richard ( - 1996, on stage at MET)=Ten

Verschoor, Matthijs ( - )piano

Veto, Tamas (VEH toh) ( - )con

Veyron-Lacroix, Robert (roh BAIR vay rohn la krwah) ( - )Fr

Viagy, Dennis (vyahj) ( - )

Viardo, Vladimir ( - ) = P

Vickers,Jon (29 OCT - )Can=Ten

Vignoles, Roger (12 JUL - )Eng=P

VILNIUS PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY (VIL' nee us) Lithuania. Orchestra

Villarroel, Veronica (Santiago, - )Chile=Sop, MET 1991

Vines, Riccardo (ree KAR doh VEEN yes) ( - )Sp=P

Viotti, Marcello (Vallorbe, SW - )Conductor. MET debut 1999-2000

Virumbrales, Luis Lozano (loo EES loh SAH noh vee room BRAH lays) ( - )Sp=cond

Vishnevskaya, Galina (gah LEE nah vish NYEF ski ah) (25 OCT -
)Rus=Sop (m. M.Rostropovich, 1955)

Vladar, Stefan (SHTEF an VLAH dar) ( - )Czech=

Vlasova,
Natalia ( - )Rus-sop

Voigt, Deborah (Chicago, - )Am=Sop, MET 1991

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Vogt,
Lars (5 SEP - )Ger=P

Volk, Carl ( - )=G

Volkov, Oleg ( - )=P

Volavy, Marguerite (1886 - 1951)Pol-Am=P

Vollenweider. Andreas ( - )

Volodos, Arcadi (1972 - )Rus =P

Von Karajan, Herbert (fon KAR' ah yon)( - )Ger=con

Vonk,
Hans (Fahnk) (Amsterdam, 18 JUN 1941 - Amsterdam, 29 AUG 2004)Dutch=Con Saint Louis S O / Obituary.

Von Matacic, Lovro (LOH vroh von MAH tah chick)

Von Otter, Anne Sophie (Stockholm, 9 MAY - )Swed=Mez-Sop, MET 1988

Von Stade, Frederika (freh deh REE kah vahn STAH duh) aka 'Flika' (1 JUN - )Ger-Am=MezSop

Vosburgh, George ( - )Tr

Votapek,
Ralph (VOH' tah pek) (
- ) =P

Vote, Franz (Los Angeles, -)Am=Con, MET 1988

Heitor Villa-Lobos

1959 Death of Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor Heitor Villa-Lobos, at 72 in Rio de Janeiro. b-Rio de Janeiro, 5 MAR 1887. Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, easily the best-known classical composer born in South America. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas brasileiras ("Brazilian Bach-pieces").

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an English pianist and composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He arranged a number of Christian hymns, harmonizing the ancient chanted prayers to popular melodies. He was also a collector of English folk music and song.
Why Ralph Vaughan Williams should be as revered as Shakespeare
By Simon Heffer
It is always good to have an excuse to contemplate the condition of our culture, and the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, which falls next Tuesday, provides one.

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John Verrall Birth Centennial

17 JUNE 1908 Birth of American composer and pianist John VERRALL in Iowa, raised in Seattle and died in there in 2001. He was a composer and professor of music at the University of Washington. His body of work includes a wide variety of instrumental, orchestral, chamber and vocal compositions. MORE

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Voigt Returns to Opera Role at Center of Firing

All Things Considered, June 13, 2008 - Opera singer Deborah Voigt will be reprising the title role in "Ariadne auf Naxos" at London's Royal Opera House next week. The role is one from which she was fired in 2004 because of her weight.
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Sonia Marie De Leon de Vega

Sonia Marie De Leon de Vega is one of the most commanding figures in music in the region – Her exhilarating vision for classical music is energizing the arts in our community in many ways. She has recently received international attention on Univision’s “Orgullo Hispano” a profile that is reserved for the most accomplished Hispanic artists in the world. She was voted as one of the “100 most influential Hispanics in the United States” and voted one of the “80 Elite Hispanic Women” by Hispanic Business Magazine. Last September Ms. De Leon de Vega was named Local Hero by KCET which aired a profile on Ms. De Lon de Vega throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.


De Vega is also energizing the arts through the Orchestra’s educational and outreach program “Discovering Music.” The program introduces Latino children and families in underserved areas in Los Angeles to classical music and the instruments of the orchestra, and provides orchestra concerts in their own community. The program includes children’s choirs and an extensive instrumental program that provides free violin lessons to over 200 children in the communities of Northeast Los Angeles.

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