1. Jennifer Larmore was born on June 21,1958 and is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer, particularly noted for her performances in coloratura and bel canto roles which she has performed in the world's major opera houses.
13 Facts About Jennifer Larmore
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Jennifer Larmore was a professor at the Music College of Seoul National University from March 2021 to March 2024.
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Jennifer Larmore attended Westminster Choir College in New Jersey and trained with Robert McIver, John Bullock and Regina Resnik.
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Jennifer Larmore made her professional debut in 1986, at Opera de Nice in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito.
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Jennifer Larmore made her Carnegie Hall debut as Romeo in 1994 and her Metropolitan Opera debut as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia in 1995.
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Jennifer Larmore went on to sing at the Met in La Cenerentola, Hansel and Gretel, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Giulio Cesare, L'italiana in Algeri, Die Fledermaus, the world premiere of Tobias Picker's An American Tragedy, and Hamlet.
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In 2012, Larmore began adding dramatic soprano roles to her repertoire, singing Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth at the Grand Theatre de Geneve and Kostelnicka in Janacek's Jenufa at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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Jennifer Larmore has won the 1994 Richard Tucker Award, a 1992 Gramophone award for Giulio Cesare on Harmonia Mundi in which she sang the title role, and the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Hansel and Gretel.
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Jennifer Larmore sang at the 1996 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Atlanta and hosted a satellite radio show for two years called Backstage with Jennifer Larmore.
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Jennifer Larmore received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government in 2002.
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Jennifer Larmore has appeared in supporting roles in l'Incoronazione di Poppea, Maria Stuarda, Francesca di Foix, Elvida, Adelaide di Borgogna, Il Signor Bruschino, Semiramide, Rigoletto, Carlo di Borgogna, Alessandro nelle Indie and Offenbach's Vert-Vert.
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Jennifer Larmore appears as the mezzo-soprano soloist in recordings of Durufle's Requiem, Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, Gurre-Lieder, El Amor Brujo, and El sombrero de tres picos.
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Jennifer Larmore appears on several DVDs, including Il barbiere di Siviglia, L'italiana in Algeri, Lulu and Jennifer Larmore in Recital.