Clamma Churita Dale was born on 1948 and is an American operatic soprano.
14 Facts About Clamma Dale
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Clamma Dale's father was a jazz musician and she received much of her early musical training from him, playing the clarinet, cello, saxophone, piano, and guitar during her youth as well as singing in the school choir.
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Clamma Dale studied music at the Settlement Music School earned a bachelor's degree in music from the Juilliard School in 1970.
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Clamma Dale earned her master's degree from the Juilliard School in 1975.
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Clamma Dale made her professional opera debut on February 20,1973 as St Teresa I in Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in a production mounted by the Metropolitan Opera.
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Clamma Dale returned to the NYCO several times in the late 1970s to portray such roles as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, and Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
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Clamma Dale returned to the NYCO several times in the late 1970s to portray such roles as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, and Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
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Clamma Dale won the 1977 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a musical and a Tony nomination.
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In 1983, Clamma Dale made her first appearance at the Opera National de Paris as Fata Morgana in The Love for Three Oranges.
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Clamma Dale spent the next several years working in various opera houses in Paris, singing roles like Liu in Puccini's Turandot, Musetta in Puccini's La boheme, Pamina in The Magic Flute, and the one-woman tour de force of the bloodthirsty title character in Erzsebet, an opera by Charles Chaynes.
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Clamma Dale has given many recitals including two resulting from winning the Walter W Naumburg voice competition.
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Clamma Dale gave recitals at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall among other places.
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Clamma Dale appeared at the White House in a Gershwin evening on February 12,1978, with pianist Neil Stannard.
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Clamma Dale died suddenly of a heart attack in 1987.