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Julia Migenes (born March 13, 1949) is an American
United States

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 soprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
 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. She was born on the Lower East Side of New York
New York City

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 to a family of Greek
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
 and Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
-Puerto Rican descent. She is sometimes credited as Julia Migenes-Johnson.

Her first experience with opera was as the child in Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
's Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa....
. While attending the New York School for Performing Arts
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, also officially known as "H.S. 485" and informally as "LaGuardia Arts" , is a high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 6...
, she was chosen by Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
 as a soloist for the Young People's Concerts
Young People's Concerts

The Young People's Concerts at the New York Philharmonic are the longest-running series of family concerts in the world, having begun in 1924 under the direction of "Uncle" Ernest Schelling....
 which was shown on television.

She began her Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 career in the original cast of Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
 with Zero Mostel
Zero Mostel

Samuel Joel ?Zero? Mostel was an United States actor of theatre and film, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in The Producers ....
 in 1964, and she then played Maria in West Side Story
West Side Story

West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
 (1964).






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Julia Migenes (born March 13, 1949) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 soprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
 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. She was born on the Lower East Side of New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 to a family of Greek
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
 and Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
-Puerto Rican descent. She is sometimes credited as Julia Migenes-Johnson.

Her first experience with opera was as the child in Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
's Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa....
. While attending the New York School for Performing Arts
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, also officially known as "H.S. 485" and informally as "LaGuardia Arts" , is a high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 6...
, she was chosen by Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
 as a soloist for the Young People's Concerts
Young People's Concerts

The Young People's Concerts at the New York Philharmonic are the longest-running series of family concerts in the world, having begun in 1924 under the direction of "Uncle" Ernest Schelling....
 which was shown on television.

She began her Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 career in the original cast of Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
 with Zero Mostel
Zero Mostel

Samuel Joel ?Zero? Mostel was an United States actor of theatre and film, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in The Producers ....
 in 1964, and she then played Maria in West Side Story
West Side Story

West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
 (1964). In the late 1960s she joined the Volksoper Wien where she sang Maria in Marcel Prawy
Marcel Prawy

Marcel Horace Frydmann, Ritter von Prawy was an Austrian dramaturg, opera connoisseur and opera critic.Prawy was born into a Jewish Austrian nobility family....
's German version of West Side Story
West Side Story

West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
 in 1968. At the time she had been singing in the chorus for a musical of the Theater an der Wien.

In the 1970s, she moved to Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, Germany. She turned to opera and operetta
Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre....
, becoming famous and popular. She starred in many operetta films and television programmes, receiving several TV awards.

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 was in Alban Berg
Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Gustav Mahler Romantic music with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique....
's Lulu
Lulu (opera)

Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg. The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's Play Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box ....
 (in John Dexter
John Dexter

John Dexter was an United Kingdom award-winning theatre, opera, and film director.Born in Derby, England, Dexter left school at the age of 14 to serve in the British army during World War II....
's production, 1980), as a substitute, for which she was cheered. She was then cast as Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
's Salome
Salome (opera)

Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German language libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann?s German translation of the French language play Salome by Oscar Wilde....
 in Grand Théâtre de Genève
Grand Théâtre de Genève

Grand Th??tre de Gen?ve is an opera house in Geneva, Switzerland.As is the case with many other opera houses, the Grand Th??tre de Gen?ve is both a venue and an institution....
. While in Geneva
Geneva

Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie . Situated where the Rh?ne River exits Lake Geneva , it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva....
, film director Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi

Francesco Rosi is an Italy film director. He is the father of the actress Carolina Rosi....
 saw her performance and cast her as 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....
 opposite Plácido Domingo
Plácido Domingo

Jos? Pl?cido Domingo Embil Order of the British Empire , better known as Pl?cido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range....
 in his 1984 opera film Carmen
Carmen (film)

Carmen is a 1984 in film film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is probably the most popular film version of Bizet's popular opera "Carmen" and stars Julia Migenes in the title role, Pl?cido Domingo as Don Jos?, Ruggero Raimondi as Escamillo, and Faith Esham as Micaela....
 (credited as Julia Migenes-Johnson).

She has recorded more than 20 albums and won a Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
 for the soundtrack to Carmen
Carmen (film)

Carmen is a 1984 in film film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is probably the most popular film version of Bizet's popular opera "Carmen" and stars Julia Migenes in the title role, Pl?cido Domingo as Don Jos?, Ruggero Raimondi as Escamillo, and Faith Esham as Micaela....
. And she was nominated for the César Awards as best actress.

Her delightful, one woman show, Diva on the Verge (2000), is available on DVD from Kultur Video
Kultur Video

Kultur Video is a video company that specializes mostly in issuing televised performances of the classics, both musical and dramatic. Along with issuing famous television programs by such artists as Leonard Bernstein and Mikhail Baryshnikov, they are also responsible for videocassettes and/or DVD's of episodes of The Bell Telephone Hour,...
.

Her fame has spread worldwide and in other performance media and genres. Inexplicably, she appeared on an episode of the Emmanuel Lewis
Emmanuel Lewis

Emmanuel Lewis is an United States actor. He is best known for having played the eponymously named title character in the 1980s? television sitcom Webster ....
 vehicle, Webster
Webster

Webster may refer to:...
.She guest starred on the TV series Twilight Zone
Twilight zone

Twilight Zone may refer to:*The Twilight Zone, the anthology television series and franchise*The Twilight Zone -1964, the original classic television series...
 episode "Grace Note". Director Peter Medak
Peter Medak

Peter Medak is a Hungary film director of United Kingdom and United States films.He was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Jewish family, but in 1956 fled his native country for England due to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution....
 asked her to appear in his opera film La voix humaine
La voix humaine

La Voix humaine is a one-act opera for one character, with music by Francis Poulenc to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, based on his 1932 play....
 (1990).

In 2004, she was in the opera version of Angels in America
Angels in America

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a theatre in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television Angels in America and an opera by Peter E?tv?s....
 which premiered at Théâtre du Châtelet
Théâtre du Châtelet

The Th??tre du Ch?telet is a theatre and opera house in Paris, France. One of two theatres built on the site of a ch?telet, a small castle or fortress, it was designed by Gabriel Davioud at the request of Baron Haussmann between 1860 and 1862....
. A TV broadcast version is expected to be released on DVD.

Selected Discography

  • Alter Ego (2006)
  • Le Meilleur de Julia (2004)
  • La Argentina (2003)
  • Infamia, Tangos de Barcelona (2000)
  • Franz Lehar (1999)
  • Robert Stolz (1999)
  • Lulu (1998)
  • Man of La Mancha
    Man of La Mancha

    Man of La Mancha is a musical theater with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote....
     (1996)
  • 100 ans de Cinema (1995)
  • Smile (1995)
  • Vienna (1993)
  • Kismet
    Kismet (musical)

    Kismet is a Musical theater written in 1953 by Robert Wright and George Forrest , adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin, and produced by Charles Lederer....
     (1991)
  • Rags
    Rags (musical)

    Rags is a musical theatre with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz , and music by Charles Strouse....
     (1991)
  • La voix humaine (1991)
  • Mack the Knife
    Mack the Knife

    Mack the Knife or The Ballad of Mack the Knife, originally Die Moritat von Mackie Messer, is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English language, The Threepenny Opera....
     (movie soundtrack album) (1990)
  • Live at the Olympia (1989)
  • The Seven Deadly Sins (1989)
  • Berlin Blues (1988)
  • Show Boat
    Show Boat

    Show Boat is a musical theatre in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. One notable exception is the song Bill , which was originally written by Kern and author-lyricist P....
     (1988)
  • In Love (1985)
  • Carmen (1984)
  • Recital (1983)
  • A Christmas Concert (1983)
  • Welterfolge (1983)
  • Latin Lady (1982)
  • Julia Migenes singt (1981)
  • Operette (1981)
  • Fiddler on the Roof (1964)


See also

  • List of famous Puerto Ricans

External links

  • (English & French)