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Emily Magee

b. 1968

American operatic soprano

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Born 1968. Emily Magee is an American opera singer, musician and singer.

Emily Magee (born October 31, 1965) is an American operatic soprano.

Born in New York City, Magee studied music at Westminster Choir College, from which she graduated in 1987. She continued her studies at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University Bloomington, where her teachers included Margaret Harshaw.

In 1995, Magee made her operatic debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, singing the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte. Her international debut came in 1996 at the Berlin State Opera, under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. Magee's selected recordings, on CD and DVD, include: Lohengrin (Elsa), with Peter Seiffert; conductor: Daniel Barenboim Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Eva); conductor: Daniel Barenboim Peter Grimes (Ellen Orford); conductor: Franz Welser-Möst Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne); Zurich Opera; conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi Rusalka; conductor: Franz Welser-Möst Tosca, with Jonas Kaufmann and Thomas Hampson; Zürich Opera Salome; Frankfurt Radio Symphony; conductor: Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Magee and her husband, who is also her agent, live in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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American operatic soprano

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Emily Magee was born on 31 October 1968 in New York City.

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Emily Magee is an opera singer, musician and singer.

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· Wikipedia: Emily Magee

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