Virginia MacWatters was an American coloratura soprano and university professor.
10 Facts About Virginia MacWatters
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Virginia MacWatters began her musical studies in piano at the age of eight at the Zeckwer Hahn Musical Academy in Philadelphia; this led to a one year scholarship at the age of twelve to study voice with Henrietta Conrad, formerly of the Dresden Royal Opera.
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Virginia MacWatters received a scholarship to the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
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Virginia MacWatters studied opera and acting under Ernest Lert and Greta Stauber.
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Virginia MacWatters sang 611 Broadway performances of Adele in Rosalinda, conducted by Erich Korngold, from 1942 to 1944.
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Virginia MacWatters made her formal operatic debut at the San Francisco Opera, as Musetta in La boheme, in 1944.
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Virginia MacWatters sang at the New York City Opera from 1946 to 1951, in The Pirates of Penzance, Rigoletto, Il barbiere di Siviglia, The Old Maid and the Thief, Le nozze di Figaro, Les contes d'Hoffmann, and Ariadne auf Naxos.
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Virginia MacWatters appeared at the first season of opera in English at Covent Garden following World War II, in the name part of Manon and as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, in 1947.
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Virginia MacWatters returned to the Met in 1957, for Fiakermilli in Arabella, with Lisa della Casa conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.
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Virginia MacWatters died on November 5,2005, at the age of ninety-three.