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Jennifer Larmore (born June 21, 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
) is an American mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
 opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 singer, noted for coloratura
Coloratura

Coloratura has several meanings. The word derives from the Italian colorare or colorazione .The term normally refers to a soprano who has the vocal ability to produce notes above C#6 and whose tessitura is A4-A5 or higher ....
 and bel canto
Bel Canto

Bel Canto may refer to:*Bel canto, a opera term that literally means "beautiful singing"*Bel Canto , a novel by Ann Patchett*Bel Canto , a Norwegian pop/electronica band...
.

ore attended Westminster Choir College
Westminster Choir College

Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.Westminster Choir College educates men and women at the undergraduate and graduate levels for musical careers in music education, voice performance, piano performance, organ performance, pedagogy, music theory and composition, conduct...
 in New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
 and trained with John Bullock
John Bullock

John Bullock O.S.A. was an Augustinian canon and prelate active in the 15th century Kingdom of Scotland. While earning a university degree between 1409 and 1417, Bullock gained several benefices in Scotland, and claimed the headship of St Andrews Cathedral Priory before becoming Bishop of Ross in 1418....
 and Regina Resnik
Regina Resnik

Regina Resnik is an United States operatic singer.Regina Resnik, the American mezzo-soprano, started a dramatic career ten months after earning her B.A....
. She made her professional debut in 1986, at Opera de Nice in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito
La clemenza di Tito

La clemenza di Tito , K?chel-Verzeichnis 621, is an opera seria composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with text after Metastasio. It was started after the bulk of The Magic Flute, the last opera that Mozart worked on, was already written ....
. In 1988, she sang Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville (Savary
Savary

Savary may refer to;* Alain Savary - a French Socialist politician* Alfred William Savary - a Nova Scotia member of the 1st Canadian Parliament...
 production in Strasbourg
Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace Regions of France in northeastern France. With 702,412 inhabitants in 2007, its metropolitan area is the Aire urbaine....
) and now calls it her signature role.






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Jennifer Larmore (born June 21, 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
) is an American mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
 opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 singer, noted for coloratura
Coloratura

Coloratura has several meanings. The word derives from the Italian colorare or colorazione .The term normally refers to a soprano who has the vocal ability to produce notes above C#6 and whose tessitura is A4-A5 or higher ....
 and bel canto
Bel Canto

Bel Canto may refer to:*Bel canto, a opera term that literally means "beautiful singing"*Bel Canto , a novel by Ann Patchett*Bel Canto , a Norwegian pop/electronica band...
.

Career

Larmore attended Westminster Choir College
Westminster Choir College

Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.Westminster Choir College educates men and women at the undergraduate and graduate levels for musical careers in music education, voice performance, piano performance, organ performance, pedagogy, music theory and composition, conduct...
 in New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
 and trained with John Bullock
John Bullock

John Bullock O.S.A. was an Augustinian canon and prelate active in the 15th century Kingdom of Scotland. While earning a university degree between 1409 and 1417, Bullock gained several benefices in Scotland, and claimed the headship of St Andrews Cathedral Priory before becoming Bishop of Ross in 1418....
 and Regina Resnik
Regina Resnik

Regina Resnik is an United States operatic singer.Regina Resnik, the American mezzo-soprano, started a dramatic career ten months after earning her B.A....
. She made her professional debut in 1986, at Opera de Nice in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito
La clemenza di Tito

La clemenza di Tito , K?chel-Verzeichnis 621, is an opera seria composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with text after Metastasio. It was started after the bulk of The Magic Flute, the last opera that Mozart worked on, was already written ....
. In 1988, she sang Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville (Savary
Savary

Savary may refer to;* Alain Savary - a French Socialist politician* Alfred William Savary - a Nova Scotia member of the 1st Canadian Parliament...
 production in Strasbourg
Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace Regions of France in northeastern France. With 702,412 inhabitants in 2007, its metropolitan area is the Aire urbaine....
) and now calls it her signature role. Larmore has since sung many leading roles in Europe's greatest opera houses, as well as making her Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue , occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street , two blocks south of Central Park....
 debut as Romeo (Bellini's
Bellini

Bellini may refer to:...
 I Capuleti e i Montecchi
I Capuleti e i Montecchi

I Capuleti e i Montecchi is an Italian language opera by Vincenzo Bellini.The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of a the story of Romeo and Juliet for an opera by Nicola Vaccai called Giulietta e Romeo ....
) in 1994 and her Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
 debut in 1995. Her repertoire includes Mahler, Schoenberg, Mozart, de Falla, Debussy, Berlioz and Barber.

Larmore has won the Richard Tucker Award and a Grammophon Best Baroque Opera award for singing Giulio Cesare
Giulio Cesare

Giulio Cesare in Egitto is an Italian language opera in three acts written by George Frideric Handel in 1724. The libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym....
 on Harmonia Mundi
Harmonia Mundi

Harmonia Mundi is an independent music record label founded in 1958 by Bernard Coutaz in Arles . The Latin phrase means "world harmony".Its catalog is essentially devoted to classical music, and through the World Village label to world music....
. She has won seven Grammy nominations and sang at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic games
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 closing ceremony. Larmore also hosts a satellite radio show called Backstage With Jennifer Larmore. She received knighthood (Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture , and confirmed as part of the Ordre National du M?rite by President of France Charles de Gaulle in 1963....
) from the French Government in 2002.

Recordings

In addition to Il barbiere di Siviglia
The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The overture, first written for Aureliano in Palmira, is a famous example of Rossini's characteristic Italian style....
, Larmore has recorded leading roles in Carmen
Carmen

Carmen is a French op?ra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Hal?vy, based on the Carmen by Prosper M?rim?e, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem "The Gypsies" by Pushkin....
, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra

Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, is a dramma per musica or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, from a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play The Page of Leicester by Carlo Federici....
, La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola

La Cenerentola, ossia La bont? in trionfo is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cinderella....
, L'italiana in Algeri
L'italiana in Algeri

'L'italiana in Algeri' is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca....
, Bianca e Falliero
Bianca e Falliero

Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre is a two-act operatic melodramma by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Felice Romani....
, Giulio Cesare
Giulio Cesare

Giulio Cesare in Egitto is an Italian language opera in three acts written by George Frideric Handel in 1724. The libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym....
, La Sofonisba
List of operas by Gluck

This is a complete list of the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck ....
, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi
I Capuleti e i Montecchi

I Capuleti e i Montecchi is an Italian language opera by Vincenzo Bellini.The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of a the story of Romeo and Juliet for an opera by Nicola Vaccai called Giulietta e Romeo ....
.

She has also appeared in supporting roles in Orphée et Eurydice, Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda

Maria Stuarda is a tragic opera, tragedia lirica, in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Friedrich von Schiller's 1800 play Maria Stuart ....
, Francesca di Foix
Francesca di Foix

Francesca di Foix is a melodramma giocoso or opera in one act by Gaetano Donizetti from a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, based on Fran?oise de Foix by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emmanuel Mercier-Dupaty....
, Elvida
Elvida

Elvida is a melodramma or opera in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. Giovanni Schmidt wrote the Italian language libretto.It was first performed on July 6, 1826 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples....
, Adelaide di Borgogna
Adelaide di Borgogna

Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia is a two-act opera composed by Gioacchino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt. It was premi?red at the Teatro Argentina in Rome on 27 December 1817....
, and Alessandro nelle Indie
Alessandro nelle Indie

Alessandro nelle Indie is an opera seria in two acts by Giovanni Pacini, with libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on Alessandro nell'Indie by Pietro Metastasio....
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